TITLE:
From “Insufficient Knowledge and Unsteady Behavior” to “Unity of Knowledge and Action”: Theoretical Reflection and Path Reconstruction of Behavioral Norm Cultivation Education for Students in Technical and Vocational Colleges
AUTHORS:
Fengyu Xiang, Jiali Wang, Wentao Jin, Li Nie, Manni Feng
KEYWORDS:
Technical and Vocational Colleges, Behavioral Norm Cultivation, Unity of Knowledge and Action, Hierarchical Promotion, Internalization Mechanism
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Access Library Journal,
Vol.13 No.6,
June
8,
2026
ABSTRACT: Technical and vocational colleges shoulder the important mission of cultivating high-quality technical and skilled talents, and the cultivation of students’ behavioral norms is a basic project to realize the fundamental task of moral education and cultivating people. However, current technical and vocational colleges generally face the practical dilemma of students’ “insufficient knowledge and unsteady behavior”—vague cognition of norms, weak implementation of behaviors, and difficult transformation of knowledge into action. On the basis of sorting out the manifestations of the dilemma and its deep-seated causes, this paper integrates cognitive psychology, behaviorism, constructivism and moral development theory, puts forward a theoretical framework of behavioral norm cultivation with “cognitive compensation, behavioral stabilization, internalized consciousness” as the core logic, and constructs a four-in-one cultivation education model of “cognition-emotion-behavior-environment” through visual transformation, hierarchical promotion and scientific feedback, so as to provide theoretical reference for technical and vocational colleges to solve the problem of disconnection between knowledge and action.Subject AreasEducation Administration