The Research On Spiritual Culture Of Teachers Based On Professional Development

Based on life philosophy and culturology, through the case studies on the status of Spiritual culture of teachers in three primary and secondary schools, this study shows the appearance of spiritual culture of teachers in primary and secondary school in the context of New Curriculum Reform, painting the survival status and lifestyle of primary and secondary school teachers in Curriculum Reform, classroom teaching reform, teacher professional development. It aims at the existing problems on spiritual culture of teachers in primary and secondary school in the classroom teaching reform, teacher professional development through life philosophy and culturology, and deep-level analyses elements of Spiritual culture of teachers, and then try to construct good strategies of spiritual culture of teachers. The summarized specific content is as following: First, this study clarifies the concepts of culture, spiritual culture, teacher cultures,spiritual culture of teachers and analyses the basic theory that influence on spiritual culture of teachers, in order to provide theoretical support for this study. This study identitied that"culture refers to spiritual life, in particular of values and ideology reacting in some type of social life and organization.""Compared with the material culture and institutional culture, spiritual culture is the general of common ideals and beliefs, values, morality, team spirit, as well as traditional practices of some groups."Only combining culture and spirit, can we really express the essence of life of culture, in other words, by use of the concept of"spiritual culture". Therefore, spiritual culture of teachers is the core and soul of teachers culture. It influences and determines the spirit of teachers, and is the spirit power of the development of teachers. It is ideals and beliefs, values, ways of thinking, ethics, interpersonal relationship, cultural traditions and so on, developed in a lengthy practice of education and teaching of teachers, with exchanges between colleagues, students, through repeated accumulation, selection, extraction, and shared, identitied and followed by groups of teachers.Under the care of life Philosophy, spiritual culture of teachers embodies as follows: shaping, nurturing and cultivating the life of teachers and students; waking up, arousing, generating the life of spiritual culture of teachers in life experiences; pursuing the existence of human life and development in the teaching process and communication between teachers and students. Focus on the trend of new spirit of human culture and the modern transformation of Chinese traditional culture in the 21st century, the spiritual and cultural values that current teachers in China should stick to, including spiritual culture of teachers, should have the national character and time quality; constitute spiritual and cultural values of the pursuit of individuality and harmonious cooperation; emphasize"people-oriented", highlight the humanistic spirit; concern about the life of teachers and students, experience life value.Second, this study defines the inherent elements of spiritual culture of teachers, using three primary and secondary schools of Chuanhui region, Huaiyang County in Zhoukou City as three case studies, makes a survey of the status of elements of spiritual culture of teachers in the primary and secondary schools. To study spiritual culture of teachers, first of all, defining the inner elements of spiritual culture of teachers, it will be easy to study spiritual culture of teachers, mainly scanned from its intrinsic elements, to understand the real status of spiritual culture of teachers. The main study focuses on views on knowledge, curriculum, students, and teaching of teachers in the aspects of teaching idea; teacher professional dedication, and enjoy spirit, service spirit, innovative spirit and the spirit of self-discipline in the aspects of professional spirit; the teachers'professional autonomy, self-confidence, self-energy and self in the aspects of professional dignity, and the relations among colleagues, students, school leaders and parents in the aspects of interpersonal relationship norms.Third, this study summarizes the problems existing in important elements of spiritual culture of teachers, and analyses the elements to clear their roles played in the building of spiritual culture of teachers. Through interviews and surveys, the existing problems are found on elements of spiritual culture of teachers, including that teaching idea of teachers is still backward; the awareness of professional services of teachers lack; the spirit of innovation of teachers not enough, their creativity inadequate; the sense of professional autonomy of teachers weak, teaching autonomy is deleted; cooperation between teachers is worrying and the relationship between teachers and leadership is not be optimistic. Based on deeply analyzing the constituent elements of spiritual culture of teachers, teaching idea is leader, the professional spirit is power, professional dignity is the core, and interpersonal relationship norms is purport in the construction of spiritual culture of teachers.Fourth, this study puts forward to strategies of construction of good spiritual culture of teachers, that should contain such parts as what kind of spiritual culture of teachers should to be builded and how to construct. Based on the status quo inspection on inner elements, problem analysis, value analysis of spiritual culture of teachers, this study puts forward to building spiritual culture of teachers with individual pursuit, cooperation, the lives characteristics, virtue pursuit and the development quality. In the construction process of good spiritual culture of teachers, we should give full consideration to the teaching idea, professional spirit, professional dignity, and interpersonal relationship, etc, inner elements to impact spiritual culture of teachers.In short, in the context of the Basic Education Curriculum Reform, education reform and teacher professional development paradigm should shift attention from the concern on the tangible external factors to cultural factors deep hidden in the people's spiritual world."we can not only remain tinkering in the rules and regulations, organizational structure as well as other aspects, and we need to focus on the change of views of value, educational beliefs, shared visions, ways of thinking of the school staff."The construction of spiritual culture of teachers is enable to make teachers consciously put the pursuit of an ideal professional development to become conscious behavior, and always maintain the direction of development of self-renewal, lay a solid foundation for really achieving the autonomy professional development of teachers.