The Urbanization Of Rural Teachers Fieldwork Spiritual Life

Spiritual life is the essential requirement of all-around development and urbanization of human beings, it can promote human’s existence state, endow human with life meaning and value concern. Each era in their social practice activities, people always make effort to pursue their spiritual life which is consistent with material life of the era for satisfying their demands of self-development.As the most important resource to achieve integration of urban and rural education, the quality of rural school teachers’ spiritual life affects not only their self-development, but also rural education, life growth of rural students and rural community residents. By virtue of the participant observation, in-depth interviews, a questionnaire survey and other research methods, and with the understanding of the field politics, economy and culture, this dissertation observed and interviewed rural school teachers, students, parents and teachers’relatives, tried to present the historical changes and the possible deficiencies of rural teachers’ spiritual life in the process of urbanization, while deeply explored the internal and external factors and solutions. In this dissertation, we draw the following conclusions:Conclusion1:The spiritual life has great value and significance for the life growth and professional development of teachers in rural areas. Embodied in four aspects:First, the spiritual life helps to expand the rural teachers’ understanding of educational categories; Second, teachers’ spiritual life is of great significance for their choice of teaching methods, the formation of teaching style and teaching tact, even teachers’ professional development; Third, the spiritual life provides direction for the development of individual teachers in rural area; Fourth, the spiritual life infuses driving force into the individual teachers’ development in rural area.Conclusion2:High level of spiritual life can contribute to improving the quality of teachers in rural areas, and contribute to the advancement of teachers returning from the "professional ethics" to "individual morality", and eventually jumping to a higher level of "public morals", thus contribute to effectively promoting the integration of urban and rural education development.Conclusion3:the spiritual life of teachers is closely related to the individual life growth and fate trends of children in rural area, high level of spiritual life is a kind of powerful education energy, which can guide the healthy growth of students’ and residents’ spirit.Conclusion4:At present, there is a big difference between individual teachers on spiritual life of in rural areas. Different types of spiritual life have their own characteristics, not entirely excluded. There are some intersects among them, but the dominant factor is more prominent in a certain type. In addition, the current spiritual life of rural teachers still has some deficiencies, such as the lack of faith and missing the meaning of life, such as the lack of life stance and the loss of subjectivity, the retreat of publicity and the variation of emotion, the absence of value system and the loss of life meaning.Conclusion5:The current imbalance of social development between urban and rural areas, the value orientation of market economy, the influence of mass media and urban consumerism culture, the collapse of public life and extreme individualism caused by individualized society, the defects of current teacher policies, these are the external factors which caused the realistic situation of rural school teachers’ spiritual life, but the uneven quality of rural teachers themselves is the subjective reason for explaining the different types of spiritual life.In order to further improve the level of spiritual life of rural school teachers, enrich the connotation of their spiritual life, and constantly promote the integration of urban and rural education development, we must begin to reform and improve from dimensions of rural education system, school management theories and individual teachers, build a set of systems of teachers spiritual life based on the current rural education reality in China.