The student affairs work team in colleges and universities is an indispensable force in the development of higher education.In the process of talent cultivation for college students,the student affairs work team is an important participant and implementer of daily ideological and political education for college students,and acts as the educator of daily ideological and political education for college students in a certain sense.In the work of ideological and political education,people often focus on the educatees,but how to “educate” the educators,and the educators’ own ethics are the premise and basis of the ideological and political education for the educatees.The ethics of student affairs work team in colleges and universities can directly affect the educational idea,action and effect of daily ideological and political education for college students.Therefore,the cultivation of ethics of student affairs work team in colleges and universities is the premise and starting point to effectively carry out the daily ideological and political education for college students.In the United States,professional ethics is an important part of the study of teacher ethics,focusing on the standardization and cultivation of professional ethics as well as professional ethics for specific teacher groups.The student affairs work team in American colleges and universities is a special group that promotes both professionalism and specialization,and its professional ethics refers to professional code of conduct,and the cultivation of its professional ethics is an important link in the student affairs work force building in American colleges and universities.As one of the countries with relatively developed quality of higher education in the world,America’s student affairs work team in colleges and universities has always been famous for its professionalism.Its student affairs work team in colleges and universities has a high level of professional ethics construction,and has accumulated theoretical and practical experience in the cultivation of professional ethics,which has certain academic research value and practical reference significance.It needs to be explained that this study should always adhere to and apply Marxist materialist dialectics to view and analyze things.Marxism believes that contradiction exists in everything,so it is necessary to view things from an objective and comprehensive perspective.Although the professional ethics cultivation of students affairs work team in American colleges and universities has effectively improved the process of professional team construction to a certain extent,it cannot be denied that there are also dilemmas in the professional ethics cultivation process.On the premise of adhering to China’s position and issue-oriented,it is of great significance to better serve the ethics construction of Chinese student affairs work team in colleges and universities by opening up an overseas perspective and rationally analyzing its beneficial experiences,that is,analyzing and exploring the logical mechanism and practical path of professional ethics cultivation of American student affairs work team.It can also provide a space for thinking to optimize and improve the daily ideological and political education for Chinese college students.This study comprehensively uses literature combing method,text analysis method,case study method,interdisciplinary research method,comprehensive analysis method and comparative research method.In the beginning,the concept and implication of the professional ethics cultivation of student affairs work team in American colleges and universities are explained in this study.The study finds that the professional ethics cultivation of student affairs work team in American colleges and universities is to shape the basic beliefs and professional values of its student affairs work team through systematic and scientific education,and to teach the ethical requirements and codes of conduct of its student affairs work team.The cultivation of professional ethics is an important part of the construction of student affairs work team in American colleges and universities,which plays a leading and fundamental role in the process of team’s professional development.On this basis,the study analyzes the core content,carrier approach and basic logic of professional ethics cultivation of student affairs work team in American colleges and universities.The study finds that: First,the professional ethics cultivation of student affairs work team in American colleges and universities is carried out under the framework of American federal laws,and national associations play an important role in the formulation of professional ethics standards.Local governments and universities will also formulate more specific professional ethics rules according to the actual situation.And the main contents of the professional ethics cultivation of student affairs work team in American colleges and universities can be summarized as the professional ethics oriented to students,colleagues,occupation and society.Second,the professional ethics cultivation of student affairs work team in American colleges and universities has formed the practical characteristics that associations lead the requirements,graduate education in the early period,and contineous education in the later period.The cultivation methods and strategies of “follow-up”,“whole process” and“multi-direction” have been adopted.The cultivation practice is mainly carried out through curriculum teaching,vocational training,work evaluation and punishment for violations.Third,the professional ethics cultivation of student affairs work team in American colleges and universities basically follows the structural framework of promoting criterion formation,enhancing value recognition and guiding behavior selection.The cultivation process pays attention to the application of related theory,such as person-organization fit theory,Kitchener’s ethical decision-making model,occupation-profession continuum theory,etc.In addition,the internal mechanism of the professional ethics cultivation includes the awakening-pulling mechanism of the subject’s ethical consciousness,the creation-supply mechanism of the ethical cultivation environment,and the connection-coordination mechanism of the linkage of internal and external factors.Finally,this study rationally examines the characteristics and experience,as well as dilemmas and deficiencies of professional ethics cultivation of student affairs work team in American colleges and universities.By objective analysis and comparison,and taking Chinese actual situation into full consideration,it is concluded that foreign experience can be borrowed and the countermeasures and suggestions can be found to promote the ethics cultivation of Chinese student affairs work team in colleges and universities.It is found that the ethics cultivation of student affairs work team needs continuous efforts in the aspects of ideological guidance,system construction,as well as publicity.Based on the principle of “self-focused,self-used”,it must keep clear consciousness of socialist theory,culture and ideology in the process of comparison and reference.Therefore,this study holds that the cultivation of professional ethics is the core content of the professional construction and development of student affairs work team in American colleges and universities.The cultivation of professional ethics usually begins with the course of graduate education in student affairs and continues throughout the career development of student affairs work team.As the action guide,these professional ethics have profoundly influenced the professional work practice of student affairs work team in American colleges and universities.On the premise of adhering to the Marxist standpoint,viewpoint and method,this study focuses on the following key points in the professional ethics cultivation of student affairs work team in American colleges and universities: recognize the concept and connotation of professional ethics;analyze the content dimension of professional ethics;grasp the cultivation strategy of professional ethics.Through the analysis and judgment,the basic laws and experience of professional ethics cultivation of student affairs work team in American colleges and universities are summarized,and the important theoretical and practical issues which have the most value are discussed,so as to provide some references for the ethics cultivation of Chinese student affairs work team in colleges and universities,as well as for daily ideological and political education for Chinese college students. |