TITLE:
The Unity of Scientific Literacy Education and Humanistic Spirit Education in Higher Education
AUTHORS:
Shixin Pei, Fenping Cui, Tingting Sun
KEYWORDS:
Teaching Reform; Scientific Literacy Education; Humanistic Spirit Education; Science & Humanities Education
JOURNAL NAME:
Creative Education,
Vol.3 No.7B,
January
15,
2013
ABSTRACT: In view of the irrational phenomenon of many highly educated intellectuals showed non-rational behavior; it consider that the reason for this non-rational
behavior is caused by the artificial fragmentation of scientific attainment
education and humanistic spirit education in modern China higher education. This article maintains that healthy
higher education should be based on scientific literacy, oriented by humanistic
spirit, and to aim at the promotion of
students personality perfection. Based on these, this
paper ideal is the unity of human
spirit education and science literacy education in modern Chinese colleges and universities is need urgently, that is
to fully integrate the human spirit and science literacy, practice the way of the combination of science and humanities education. Focus on the combination, the connotations, objectives and ways to realize are
disscussed in this paper, it is thinking that practices the combination of science and humanities education way
should develop education theory, establish the educational methodology suitable
for the science and humanities education, and seek the reuniting of science and
humanities education from the history of science literacy education and
humanities spirits education, reform the probleme in
the combination of science education and humanities
education, to carry out the education of science and humanities at the same
time, reshaping the values of today higher education.