The campus is a place where teachers and students study, work, live and grow together. Campus culture is the "spiritual life and soul of the school". Its influence on teachers and students is subtle and profound. And long term. High-quality and distinctive campus culture can give the campus a healthy, warm, confident, and upward spiritual temperament, guide teachers and students unconsciously, stimulate their inner positive energy, and make the campus burst with vitality.
1. Origin and Current Situation Jiangnan School, as the pioneer of junior high school education in Zhenjiang, has experienced more than ten years of ups and downs. Along the way, it has accumulated rich accumulation and formed its own unique cultural atmosphere. Among them, the concept of "harmonious education" is deeply rooted in the hearts of Jiangnan people and has become an unspoken consciousness in the hearts of Jiangnan people.
However, Jiangnan people, who have long pursued authenticity and simplicity and advocated inner harmony, have ignored the role of explicit culture. Due to the relative lack of investment and insufficient attention to material and cultural construction, most campus environmental facilities are old and dilapidated, and campus cultural attractions are also pale and lacking. This situation is far from Jiangnan School’s prestigious reputation, and the contrast is sharp. It has become a shortcoming in the school’s pursuit of connotative development.
Last semester, Director Zhao Jue of the Municipal Education Bureau visited Jiangnan School. After inspecting the campus on the spot, Director Zhao keenly discovered the bottlenecks in the school’s development, put forward many valuable opinions, and took the initiative to propose The Municipal Bureau provides funding to help schools strengthen campus culture construction. Director Zhao's instructions were like enlightenment and made people alert. We are strongly aware that the construction of campus culture has reached the point where it is urgent to delay.
2. Conception and Action
After knowing their shame and being brave, Jiangnan people took action immediately! School leaders held several administrative meetings to discuss and established a campus culture construction plan with the theme of "Harmonious Education". They established a campus culture construction working group headed by President Gong Shuangming, and made a clear division of labor: Deputy Secretary Cai Chengming Mainly responsible for the improvement of the campus environment and innovation, Vice President Chen Xianjun is mainly responsible for cultural construction.
After receiving the task, the working group took immediate action and divided into two groups to carry out the work under the guidance of the party branch and the principal's office. In order to formulate a specific campus culture construction plan, the working group visited Zhenjiang Foreign Languages ??School, Zhenjiang Experimental School, Zhenjiang No. 3 Middle School, and Jiangsu Province Taizhou Middle School Affiliated Junior High School for inspections, and learned from the experience and experience of these schools in campus culture construction. practice. At the same time, we actively contacted the design and construction units, and jointly completed the overall plan design of campus culture with the assistance of the design unit.
According to the plan finalized by the school administrative committee, the theme of Jiangnan School’s campus culture construction is “Harmonious Education”, which mainly includes two major items and more than 20 sub-items (see attached table).
1. Establish "harmonious education" as the theme of campus culture. As soon as this topic was raised by Principal Gong Shuangming, it was immediately unanimously approved by all members of the Executive Council. The concepts of "rituals are used, harmony is precious" and "harmony" are the concepts of running schools and educating people that Jiangnan School has been adhering to since its establishment. Jiangnan people believe that "harmony" is the origin and symbol of all things and the right way for the healthy development of things. Harmony in nature is beautiful, harmony in the country is strong, harmony in society is peaceful, and harmony in schools is prosperous. Harmonious education complies with the inherent laws of education, and the process of harmonious education is a process in which teachers and students jointly experience the joy of growth and the happiness of success. Focusing on this theme, the school quickly drafted and approved the "Interpretation of the "Harmonious Education" Concept of Zhenjiang Jiangnan School", and used it to guide the school's cultural construction ideas.
2. The layout of the campus environment highlights the word "harmony". We set up a huge stone in the center of the school
with a huge word "harmony" written on it to highlight the school's cultural philosophy of "peace is valued" and "education in harmony"; at the same time, The two main roads of the school were named "Tonghe Road" and "Hemei Road" respectively, and a corridor connecting the teaching building and the office building was named "Heyue Corridor"; and "Tonghe Road" and "Hemei Road" together with the other There are road signs on the two roads "Lexue Road" and "Dacheng Road", and the vaguely visible word "和" is printed on the road signs.
The school’s two teaching buildings, one comprehensive building, and one dormitory building originally had building names, which were named by Mr. Xu Bolin, a senior education official in Zhenjiang, when Jiangnan School was first established. The two teaching buildings are "Lexue Building" and "Dacheng Building". Happy learning is taken from "The Analects of Confucius" "Those who know well are not as good as those who are good at it, and those who are good at it are not as good as those who are happy", which encourages students to study hard and enjoy learning; Dacheng is taken from "Xue Ji" "Nine years of knowledge will lead to a mastery of knowledge. "If you are strong and do not rebel, you will call it great success." This is to encourage students to achieve success in their studies. One dormitory building is named "Lequn Building", which is taken from the "Xue Ji" "One year to be separated from the classics and discernment, three years to be dedicated to the community", which encourages teachers and students to be dedicated to the community and live in harmony. In this cultural construction, we have retained the names of these three buildings; while the original name of the complex building has been changed and renamed "Xingzhi Building", which is intended to commemorate the great educator Mr. Tao Xingzhi. , encourage all teachers to learn from Tao Shitao, take the teacher as a role model, and be a role model for others.
We have set up floor-to-ceiling booths for two teaching buildings and one comprehensive building. In addition to the building name and floor distribution, the nameplate of the booth also adds a sentence to the name of the building. The annotation of the words incorporates cultural connotations. The sentence we added to "Xingzhilou" is taken from Mr. Tao Xingzhi's original words: "A teacher should not specialize in teaching, his responsibility is to teach people how to behave."
"Similarly, we also embed a vague word "harmony" on each building nameplate and a new "Campus Plan" at the school gate.
Jiangnan School is an advanced greening unit in Jiangsu Province. The campus is full of flowers, shady trees, rippling green ponds in the central garden, and green rockeries. The original green landscape is pleasing to the eye, and it feels like entering a painting. In order to add a touch of humanistic education on this basis. , we carefully set up more than 30 flower and plant signs among the flowers and trees. In addition to some warning signs to remind us to protect flowers and plants, most of them are selected classic Chinese cultural mottos. When teachers and students walk in the garden, they can inadvertently see this sentence. The aesthetic, rhythmic and thought-provoking words, such as: "Play a thousand tunes and then the sound will dawn, watch a thousand swords and then recognize the weapon - Liu Xie", the infiltration effect is achieved instantly.