Humanism Education, High School Biology Education

The reality of modern education in our country is:ignoring or disregarding humanity education instead of attaching importance to science education. This caused some students losing their humanistic spirit, thinning their sense of value, gliding their level of morality. The tendency of sciencism in biology education is more serious. We can only see "knowledge" no "people" in biology education. Under the guidance of humanistic psychology and humanistic education theory, the thesis discusses the urgency and the necessity of cultivating humanistic spirit in biology education in high school, based on the reality of biology education in our country. The questionnair method and theory analysis method are used to the problem is done by educational practice.The thesis is composed of five parts. In the first part, it introduces the social background:including the reality of China' s education and biology education in high school. The content of the study is also mentioned in this part.The second part of the thesis propounds that there is plenty of contents about the humanistic spirit in biology education in high school. The argumentation was demonstrated by three ways, one is the connotation of humanistic spirit, the second is the character of biology subject and the other is the characteristic of student' s psychological development.The third part of the thesis puts forward the targets, the principles and the particular contents in biology education in high school. In the thesis humanistic spirit means a concept value and it is divided into four aspects, which are attitudes to oneself, human being society, other people and nature, and their concrete meaning in biology education is also interpreted. Five main principles are put forward. The first one is to permeate scientific spirit with humanistic spirit, the second one is to take the human being as root, the third principle is to have an open eye on the biology education, the forth is to be aimed at different people, the fifth is to have emotion. At the same time, in the thesis, the particular contents of humanistic spirit in biology education are:the education of dialectical materialism, the education of patriotism, the ecological motal education, the education of the scientific values and aesthetic education.On the basis of the part two and the part three, the forth part of the thesis puts the countermeasure on how to culture the humanistic spirit in biology education in high school. We used questionnaire method in order to find the present situation of middle school students, teachers' teaching habits, views about humanistic spirit and their suggestions.According to the investigation and the forward analysation, the thesis puts forward four ways to deal with the situation in biology education:Create educational policy of many factors, including biology education , promote humanistic spirit education; Take active part in the reform of biology teaching, increase the materials of humanistic education to it;Strenthen the development of humanistic spirit to the biology teacher;Strenthen the humanity infiltration;Form a mutual relationship between the teachers and the students. According to the situation of our country , the most practical way is to be connected with scientific spirit and infiltrate into the teaching of the subject.The last part of the thesis describes the process of the educational practice and suggests the main style of penetrating humanistic spirit education in biology instruction. Other methods are also used, such as talking about special topics in class. Students are supervised and urged to go out to do some investigation, and write down what they have learnt. Based on the theory analysis and educational practice of one term, the conclusion was drawn from the testing and feedbacks from teachers and students themselves, telling us that it is feasible to culture the humanistic spirit in biology education in high school. And the result also demonstrates that it is hard to culture the humanistic spirit. It demands a long time of studying an...