A Case Study On The Cultivation Of Primary School Students’ Labor Literacy From The Perspective Of Home-school Cooperation

As an important part of the 5-dimension education for primary school students’,education on the hard-working spirit and doing chores plays a critical role in improving students’ hands-on ability and life skills.In recent years,labor education has been highly valued,and primary school students’ labor awareness has been generally improved,but their chores habits need to be improved,and the problems of low motivation and the lack of hard-working spirit still exist.In 2022,the Chinese Ministry of Education has separated labor education from the comprehensive practical activity curriculum-and issued the Labor Curriculum Standards for Education(2022Edition)(hereinafter referred to as the "Standards"),and clearly put forward the corresponding labor education requirements for children at different learning stages.This study adopted a comprehensive case study approach,whichcombined methods such as literature review,survey,interview,and behavioral observation,to examine the current practice of labor education among students,their parents and teachers in a representative prime school in Yantai,Shandong Province.Family-school cooperation to cultivate students’ labor motivation and skills was evaluated.Both the strengths and weaknesses of the practice were identified.Based on findings from these analyses,we attempted to put forward suggestions on strategies to enhance family-school cooperation,and the implementation of the Standards to improve the students’ labor education.The results show that the overall level of the labor literacy of the students in the upper classes of the school is high,but in reference to the Standards,it is found that in the process of family-school cooperation to cultivate the labor literacy of students,both families and schools have some problems.For example,in the families,the division of responsibility between male and female parents in guiding students is not balanced,basic labor is more emphasized than creative labor,the content of basic labor is lacking diversity,intellectual education is more valued than labor education,students’ labor time is scattered,and the overall time is insufficient,and family evaluation and reward methods are limited;The students have low awareness of participation and a lack of creative labor;There are also some problems in family-school cooperation,such as misunderstanding of both parties,limited cooperation content,one-sided labor education curriculum setting,unbalanced functions of both parties,weak emotional communication between both parties,and a lack of a family-school cooperation evaluation system.Based on the above observations,the author puts forward strategies for improving family-school cooperation in cultivating students’ labor literacy from a perspective of integrating efforts of school,family,and the society.