How do vocational colleges use their own resources to serve the elderly education?

1. "Running a school in a school" is the objective requirement and product of the development of the times

1. The premise of developing education for the elderly in colleges and universities is that China has entered a "double-old period". In 1999, China's elderly population over 6 years old accounted for 1% of the total population, and it has become an elderly country according to international standards. Since then, China's aging trend is more severe. In 213, the number of elderly people will exceed 2 million. It is estimated that one third of the population in China will belong to the elderly in the future. Shanghai has always maintained the record of "three mornings" in the whole country: the earliest aging (1979); The aging degree is the highest; Life expectancy is the highest (the average life expectancy in 213 was 82.47 years). It is a long-term strategic task for our country to cope with the aging population calmly and win more initiative for the aging population, and the education for the elderly is an integral part of this strategic task.

2. The development of education for the elderly in colleges and universities is to create conditions for the elderly to have the right to education. The Law of the People's Republic of China on the Protection of the Rights and Interests of the Elderly (revised draft), which was implemented in July 213, specifically added the provision that "the elderly have the right to continue education", and clearly stipulated that "the state develops education for the elderly, integrates it into the lifelong education and community education system, and encourages the society to run all kinds of schools for the elderly." What is particularly exciting is that this provision is placed in Chapter VII "Participation in Social Development" of the Law on the Protection of Rights and Interests, and in the general part, it is added that "the elderly who participate in social development and make contributions shall be commended or rewarded in accordance with relevant state regulations." The state guarantees the right of the elderly to enjoy education for the elderly in legal form, and actively encourages and rewards the elderly who continue to contribute to social development, which provides a strong legal support for running the education for the elderly, especially the universities for the elderly in colleges and universities.

3. Developing education for the aged in colleges and universities is an objective requirement to adapt to "resource-saving". The state advocates building a conservation-oriented society and realizing the enjoyment of resources. At present, in universities, colleges and secondary vocational schools, a large part of resources are idle. It is the dream of many elderly people that how to run well the education for the elderly in these colleges and universities, make full use of school resources, and let the elderly enjoy the ivory tower resources they dream of, so as to form a beautiful situation in which the young and the old live in harmony, enjoy the fruits of reform and development, and make progress together.

4. The development of education for the aged in colleges and universities is a vivid portrayal of the continuous progress of social civilization. With the development of society, the average life expectancy of human beings is also increasing. According to the definition of the United Nations World Health Organization, people are middle-aged before the age of 65, young and old people between the ages of 66 and 75, and formal old people are considered after the age of 76. The shortest life span of a person should be 1 years. The division of this age group has delayed the aging period of people for 1 years, which will have a positive impact on people's mental health and anti-aging will. If a person retires at the age of 6, how will he spend one third of his life if he lives to be 9? Especially young and old people who have a healthy journey for 15 years, how can they give full play to their enthusiasm? Continue to contribute to society? The education for the aged, which came into being at the historic moment, has created conditions for these young and old people, or those who are older but healthy, to be "active, knowledgeable and happy".

5. The 14-year development of Shanghai University for the Aged has strongly proved the feasibility of the "school-in-school" model. Shanghai University University for the Aged has been welcomed by the elderly for 14 years, and some even changed their life path for the rest of their lives. At present, among the retired elderly, the level of knowledge is improving, and many people used to have relatively high positions and titles. At the same time, the age structure is declining. This group is not worried about food, shelter and clothing, but needs spiritual food, spiritual old-age care and humanistic care, and the development of elderly education in colleges and universities just meets their practical needs.

second, "running a school in a school" is of great significance to the development of education for the elderly

1. From the perspective of running a school, it is conducive to concentrating on teaching and seeking characteristics. Universities for the aged are "schools within schools", which not only have the advantages of elegant learning environment, complete disciplines, strong teachers and rich educational resources, but also can get rid of trivial matters such as security, logistics support and equipment maintenance, save the cost and energy of running schools, and concentrate on teaching and seeking characteristic development. This is the unique advantage of the university for the aged. In addition, you can find out what you are suitable for, what you are not suitable for, what you can and can't do. It can be said that "people are like clouds, and they don't talk about it." The development goal of Shanghai University for the Aged in the past five years is "a model university for the aged in Shanghai, which is guided by the theoretical research of education for the aged, supported by the advantages of" running a school in a school ",characterized by the discipline construction of" traditional physical health preservation ",innovated by the teaching space of" attending classes in class ",based on expanding the teaching scale and stabilizing the high-quality teachers, and built a platform to show the teaching achievements as the help point, and constantly exerts the functions of leading, demonstrating and radiating." How to give play to the advantages of running a school in a school? How to guarantee the leadership system? How to stabilize the teaching staff? How to develop discipline construction needs further study and improvement. Recently, as one of the expanding contents of the mode of "running a school in a school", the mode of "attending classes in class" is also constantly being practiced and explored. These pioneering measures, to a great extent, benefit from the strong guarantee of energy brought by the mode of running schools in colleges and universities.

2. From the perspective of elderly students, it is the experience of beautifying life and the guarantee of returning to society. The old people's participation in the university for the aged has fulfilled their unrealized dreams when they were young, improved their quality, made new friends, enriched their life in their later years, and improved their mental outlook, which has played a good family demonstration effect and social driving effect, laid the foundation for establishing the style of the elderly in their families and communities, and explored and developed their potential and characteristics through learning. Just as the training goal of colleges and universities is innovative talents, the running goal of colleges and universities for the elderly is "self-innovation". Among the elderly students in Shanghai University, there are professors of electronic information science who become photographers. There are also mechanical professors who become members of the "Happy Centenary" lecturer group, and there are many old people who are late bloomers. Through education, the elderly students can update their knowledge and increase their adaptability to social reintegration, which is conducive to this group's social reintegration, undertaking whatever work they can and creating value for society. Education for the elderly has built a broad stage and space for the elderly to display their new talents, and also opened up new fields and new horizons for their functions.

3. From the perspective of universities, it is conducive to the development of campus culture, discipline construction and school reputation. The United States, Britain, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, Spain, Turkey, Brazil and other countries have no age limit for admission. Some retirees can go to the same university and attend classes in the same classroom with young people even though they are over 6 years old. Some elderly educators call this kind of university where the old and the young live together "Forget the Year University". The university form of forgetting the year provides a place for the elderly to communicate with young people and complement each other. The "Forgetting Friends" in the "Forgetting Years University" enables the elderly to communicate with young people frequently and exchange feelings, forming a caring and loving atmosphere, and at the same time, improving the construction of study style. The new teaching mode and "in-class lectures" mode tried by Shanghai University for the Aged fully prove the effectiveness brought by this mode, the style of study has been greatly improved, and the excellent campus culture has been passed down among young people in this way, which is an aspect of promoting the development of colleges and universities. On the other hand, colleges and universities run senior universities, which have nurtured senior universities. However, with the development and growth of senior universities, they are constantly playing their own roles and feeding back the self-construction of colleges and universities. The advantage of running senior universities in colleges and universities is that they can be used by us with the help of superior disciplines and high-quality teachers. Among the teachers in the University for the Aged of Shanghai University, a considerable number of on-campus teachers are employed, some of whom are young graduates of master's degree and doctor's degree. Through teaching in the University for the Aged, they not only meet their teaching needs, but also experience their teaching skills. Therefore, its feeding and feeding are interactive and complementary dialectical relations. Finally, running a university for the elderly in colleges and universities is conducive to the functions of serving the society and participating in social and cultural construction, and creates favorable conditions for establishing a good reputation.

4. From the perspective of building a harmonious society, it is an indispensable factor in building a harmonious society. As an important group of social development, the stability of the elderly group directly affects the construction of the whole harmonious society. As an important supplement to social education, quality education and legal education and an important part of lifelong education system, the education for the aged plays a unique role in realizing active and healthy aging and lifelong education. Running a university for the elderly in colleges and universities is conducive to the integration of high-quality resources such as teachers, beautiful places and good atmosphere inside and outside the school. It is very important to improve the quality, tap the potential and play the role of the elderly group, and build a harmonious socialist society and strengthen the construction of socialist spiritual civilization. At the same time, it also found a new breakthrough for realizing the lifelong education project for all, and won the favor of the elderly. Some popular courses in Shanghai University for the Aged, such as traditional physical fitness and music appreciation, are hard to find, which fully proves the advantages and strong attraction of running universities for the aged.

Third, the concept of "running a school in a school" is improved: adhere to the people-oriented principle and innovate in highlighting the characteristics of education for the elderly

In modern society, we must adhere to the people-oriented principle in everything we do, and holding a university for the elderly is no exception, but Shanghai University for the Elderly, which runs a school in a university, has a unique approach in this regard. The surname of education for the aged is "Jiao", and that of Shanghai University for the Aged is "Shangda". Since the first day of her establishment, she has been adhering to the school-running concept of "cultivating students to become all-round people" put forward by President Qian Weichang, insisting on tearing down "teaching and learning; Teaching and scientific research; Discipline and discipline; Inside and outside the school "four walls, etc. All these have infiltrated into the education for the elderly and become the concept, purpose and method of running a school. The university for the aged regards the happiness of the elderly as the greatest comfort, the needs of the elderly as the greatest pursuit, and the service for the elderly as the greatest wish. We also try our best to build the university for the aged into a "big family with friends, harmony, unity and happiness"; One of the main purposes of holding a university for the elderly is to let the elderly "innovate themselves" constantly, and to help the elderly to constantly shape themselves, improve themselves and brand new themselves through corresponding learning, so as to beautify their lives, improve their quality of life, and then set up their proper demeanor in the family and society.

1. the purpose of running a school: from the initial to meet the spiritual needs of some retirees in our school, it has continuously developed to the point that colleges and universities should play the responsibility of serving the society. The University for the Aged of Shanghai University was founded in the early days to satisfy the spiritual life of some retirees of Shanghai University in their later years. After more than ten years' development, relying on the unique advantages of universities in establishing universities for the aged, students have expanded to non-Shanghai University veteran comrades, and more and more elderly people from various districts in Shanghai have been attracted to participate in the education for the aged. At present, more than half of the students in Shanghai University for the Aged are non-Shanghai University veteran comrades. It is also a positive measure taken by Shanghai University to cope with the aging of Shanghai by setting up a typical public welfare undertaking, which highlights and exerts the function of Shanghai University as a local university to serve social development from another way.

2. Convenience of running a school: In addition to some convenient hardware conditions mentioned above, its convenient software is mainly reflected in its strong research strength. For example, Sociology of Shanghai University (a national key discipline) has famous sociologists such as Professor Deng Weizhi, Professor Li Youmei and Professor Zhang Zhongru, who have strong academic echelon and research ability, and have accumulated more research results and experience. As early as the 198s, sociology of aging Institute was established in this discipline, which has long been concerned about the problem of population aging. Every year, it conducts research on the subject of aging, and has written works such as sociology of aging, social psychology of the elderly, social work of the elderly, and offered courses such as sociology of aging and social work of the elderly to train graduate students in the field of gerontology. In addition, Professor Zhang Zhongru has recently been appointed as a member of the Academic Committee of China Association of Universities for the Aged, and will further provide the latest information and give research guidance. In addition, the researchers of comprehensive universities come from young and middle-aged teachers in law, psychology, education, physical education and other disciplines. Among them, there are not only local researchers, but also foreign doctors who have returned from the United States, Japan and Germany. Besides, our university for the aged itself has a stable research team. These rare resources provide a strong guarantee for the in-depth study of the theory of old-age education.

3. Characteristics of running a school: After more than ten years of practice and exploration, Shanghai University for the Aged has now formed four basic characteristics: 1. Make full use of the advantages of "running a school in a school" so that the elderly can fully enjoy the right to education; 2. Combine the development of characteristic projects with discipline construction, and build a traditional sports health culture base; 3. Integrate the school's theoretical research resources, set up and constantly improve the theoretical research team; 4. Integrate into the mainstream culture of the school and contribute to the construction of school culture. Among them, the most distinctive course, which is deeply loved by the majority of elderly students, is the course "Traditional Physical Fitness" offered in recent years. Shanghai University for the Aged organically combines this course with the health care issues that the elderly are more concerned about, and runs a traditional sports health care class, which is very popular among the elderly. Since the introduction of traditional physical health discipline, seven courses have been set up, plus sports dance, yoga for the elderly, square dance, etc., and more than ten physical education courses have been set up.

4. Feedback after running a school: To run a school in a university, you should actively integrate into the mainstream culture of the university, make contributions to the construction of campus culture, and reflect the value of the university for the elderly. In the second half of 212, Shanghai University held the "Chrysanthemum Culture" activity, and the University for the Aged also held the "Traditional Culture Week for the Elderly" activity. With the help of the platform of the University's Chrysanthemum Exhibition, it publicized and let contemporary college students and teachers participate in traditional cultural activities such as calligraphy and painting in China, so that they, especially foreign students, could truly appreciate the charm of China's traditional culture, thus realizing the organic integration of campus mainstream culture and education culture for the elderly.

fourth, the school-running mechanism of "running a school in a school" is the guarantee for the development of education for the elderly

1. At the beginning, the middle-run university for the elderly in colleges and universities lacked organizational guarantee, its strength was weak, and its participation in schools was limited. Therefore, the relevant departments of the school gave little support to the university for the elderly. However, this situation can no longer adapt to the development of the times and the strong demand of the elderly. With the expansion of the scale of the university for the elderly and the continuous enhancement of the function of the elderly to feed back the university and society, an organization involving all departments came into being-the school affairs Committee.

2. The establishment of the "School Affairs Committee" of Shanghai University for the Aged has effectively guaranteed the development of the University for the Aged. The establishment and development of an institution or organization cannot be separated from strong organizational guarantee. In order to make full use of the school conditions and effectively integrate the campus resources, the School Affairs Committee of Shanghai University for the Aged was formally established in 212 through various efforts. It is under the direct responsibility of the leaders in charge of Shanghai University, and is run by departments that are closely related to the university for the aged, such as organization department, personnel department,