Approaches to Strengthening Ideals and Beliefs Education of China’s College Young Teachers

At present, quite a number of China’s college young teachers have weakened or lost their ideals and beliefs, degenerated professional ethics, and problems concerning with education quality and academic integrity have occurred from time to time. Therefore, it is necessary to strengthen the ideals and beliefs education of college young teachers. However, previous researches on the ideals and beliefs education of college young teachers and its countermeasures mainly focused on one or several colleges and universities, and failed to put forward suggestions for improvement applicable to colleges and universities across the country. Based on inductive analysis of previous researches in the past 30 years, combined with experiences of the author of this paper, it is found that the root causes of the current problems of the ideals and beliefs education of college young teachers mainly come from three aspects: society, young teacher and higher education institution, hence three approaches for strengthening the ideals and beliefs education of China’s college young teachers are proposed. First of all, it is necessary to vigorously promote college young teachers to participate in social practice, to facilitate their objective understanding of social reality and establishing proper ideals and beliefs; secondly, take advantage of Internet technology and adopt a variety of online and offline effective methods to carry out ideological education for young teachers to enhance their identification of the ideals and beliefs advocated; and thirdly, colleges and universities need to improve their evaluation system, adopt an assessment model with equal emphasis on teaching and scientific research and ideals and beliefs, so as to guide young teachers to attach importance to the improvement of their own ideals and beliefs. Colleges and universities also need to combine ideals and beliefs education with solving young teachers’ practical problems in order to enhance the persuasive power of ideals and beliefs education and thus improve the effect of ideals and beliefs education. This paper points out the three root causes of the problem, and proposes three approaches from a macro perspective, hoping that it may inspire the ideals and beliefs education work of young teachers in Chinese colleges and universities.