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An Analysis On The Manifestations About Intellectual Spirit Of Contemporary University Teachers And Cultivating Strategies

Posted on:2013-02-01Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:Z H ZhengFull Text:PDF
GTID:2247330374469696Subject:Principles of Education
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University is the place of studying profound knowledge and training highly qualified specialists. However, with the development of market economy, the whole society has fallen into a "vicious circle" where people run after the material interests and neglect the spirit and moral. University which was away from commercial interests in the past is gradually going towards the center to compete for various interests now. In front of marketization, the university’s traditional functions and social missions may stale due to the infiltration of commercial interests, or suffer from doubts and face challenges because of the changing times. At the same time, the university teachers who are the core soul of university can also not be escaped.Recently, Some university teachers are lack of academic ethics, examples of academic fraud or academic anomie are frequently reported in the newspapers, some university teachers tend to be unwilling to do scholarly research, unable to, or both unwilling and unable to, lacking in social responsibility, serious utilitarianism and so on. Because of this, the social roles and missions of university teachers are leading to the growing public doubts."Long-term projects education oriented, educational plans teacher centered" The cultivation of the intellectual spirit of university teachers is related to their moral construction, it plays an important role in waking up the awareness of intellectual, enhancing the humanism spirit of the university teachers and abiding by the spirit of university. The article mainly talks about university teachers, the author try to clarify the intellectual spirit, both ancient and modern, Chinese and foreign, to extract the common elements of intellectual spirit, and thus make general discussions about the spirit, the author finds the intellectual spirit of the university teachers which has five kinds of kernel:independent spirit, freedom spirit, academic spirit, the critical spirit and the courage to take the spirit of social responsibility. So the author digs the performance of the intellectual spirit of contemporary university teachers in china, the draw mainly as follows:independent spirit,"thinking of freedom, awe of academic", critical spirit and strong sense of social responsibility. Through the analysis on the manifestations of intellectual spirit of contemporary university teachers, the author finds out the reasons for the missing, such as the profound impact of the traditional knowledge concept, the negative impact of the market economy in the social transformation, and the negative effects of university academic evaluation system and so on. And proposes to cultivate the university teachers’ intellectual spirit by the following targeted strategies:To the philosophy of academic-based, devote oneself to scholarship; to the fundamental of academic self-discipline, advocate academic integrity; to the basis of academic freedom, reshape the university spirit; to the premise of equal dialogue, improve the public sphere and so on.
Keywords/Search Tags:University teacher, Intellectual, Intellectual spirit
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