Difficult Taking Off

With the deepening of social transformation, contemporary social environment has become more complex, pluralistic and uncertain, which calls for people who can grasp their own destinies, maintain their pursuit and take the initiative to realize their personal growth through reflection and adjustment in diverse and changing social storms. In a nutshell, that is, times call for people who can develop independently. Then how to foster the students' spirits of autonomy has become an important subject of contemporary schools, and middle school students in the critical period of autonomous development should receive special attention. Precisely because of this, firstly, this research confirms the core spiritual accomplishment--autonomy, based on the summarization of the characteristics of Chinese social habitat in transition. Explaining the tremendous potential of becoming autonomous of junior high students, we analyze the real status of autonomous growth of different grades, give procedural concerns and explore the concerning reasons, with sample of the students from Shanghai Minhang Fourth Middle School. The last part is about the reflection on the training of students' autonomy and the prospect of future efforts.In particular, this paper is divided into four chapters.Chapter I starts with contemporary Chinese habitat characteristics, summarizing the new core spiritual accomplishment of the contemporary generation - autonomy, and why the junior high becomes the critical stage of development of autonomy. Contemporary Chinese habitat characteristics are briefly described in this part, that is, the complex social environment is changing, conflicting, open, and pluralistic, with opportunities and risks coexisting. Time needs the person who can size up the situation, take the initiative to grasp themselves, and who are good at creating space for self-realization initiatively - an independent person. Then, based on others' research on "independence", the concept of autonomy and its characteristics were analyzed. The focus was turned to the middle school students. The stage of middle school is the critical development period of autonomy, with tremendous potential of becoming autonomous. Junior high students gradually raise the level of cognition, further develop their abstract thinking ability, increasingly enrich, sustain and deepen their emotions and they appeal for autonomy as a result of access to self-identity, all of these characteristics making becoming autonomous a basic subject for junior high school students.In chapter II, the status of junior high students' autonomous growth as a dimension, students from Shanghai Minhang Fourth Middle School as study samples, the status of their autonomous growth and its influential factors are analyzed in different grades, and so are the relationship and the concerning reasons between the overall status of students' autonomous growth and different grades.As a whole, the status of junior high students' autonomous growth is not ideal. They take off difficultly with multiple constraints: they have a strong desire of autonomy, but understand lightly the depth of the meaning of "independent", and some of them even go to extremes, uncertain about self-awareness and self-identity. Their self-learning abilities are gradually raised, but the extreme weariness with study that they show in the middle and latter parts and differentiation of states are quite worrisome. They are friendly and open in communication, but their ability to solve interpersonal conflicts remains to be raised. Their self-care ability and the sense of self-service are improved progressively, but they lack in the concrete initiative actions for collective services and the ability to take voluntary responsibilities.With procedural concern about autonomous growth of junior high students, it is found that sixth grade may be the critical period, during which the sixth-grade students demonstrate a strong sense of autonomy and aspirations. Whether this internal demand can be met will directly influence their identification and enthusiasm for junior high school Life, the follow-up grades, and whether they will become an autonomously developed person.Eighth-grade is the cumulative and central performance period of for independent spirit growth of junior high students, and also a transition period. It is the period to accelerate the development of independent spirit, and to demonstrate mainly the students' self-awareness and abilities. It is a transition period, during which apparent polarity between students appears, a result of two-year junior high school study and life, and the elementary for future development.Based on the current situation, the author makes a tentative analysis of the possible factors to influence the autonomous growth of junior high students, mainly through the following three aspects: the interactive relations between the three forces of parents, school, and the students, the students themselves, and the social environment.In chapter III, the actions of the school to enhance the students' autonomy are analyzed, Shanghai Minhang Fourth Muddle School as an example. It focuses on the following five aspects: the formation of the idea and atmosphere of "full self-education", the cultivation of students' autonomy in an open classroom, the building of class life, the large-scale development of practical activities, and the establishment of interactive mechanism of home, school, and community, on which basis the school's practice is reflected.In chapter IV, it is a simple prospect. It is proposed that the efforts made to benefit middle school students to take off are to "relax control of" the children, go near the child's "spirit", and expand the children's "growth stage."...