Realization Of Educational Function Of Revolutionary Memorial

With prosperous development and gradual progress of social economy and cultural undertakings of our country, people have wider and deeper demands in cultural and educational field. They look forward to choosing education contents and environment independently according to their individual requirements to enrich themselves and update their knowledge structure.Social educational system emerges because of the demand, becoming an important way for people to gain knowledge and enrich spiritual life. Education of revolutionary memorial is exactly one carrier of this type of education mode. With exhibition as its basic form, it conveys historic connotation directly through real objects, which is so real that it is irreplaceable. It makes people closer to history, so history is within reach.The so called revolutionary memorial is one important type of memorials. It is a kind of commemorative museum memorizing important historical events and prominent historical personages of modern revolutionary history. Different from other museums, they usually keep original appearance of special memorial sites and vestiges, becoming a type of museum with special features.The objects they memorize and study are most important historical events and prominent personages fully affirmed by modern history of China, which have produced wide and deep influences on development of social history in different aspects and various degrees. Through extolling these prominent personages and historical events, it spreads corresponding historical and cultural knowledge and publicizes connotation of mainstream culture in modern society, urging people to form world outlook, philosophy and sense of worth keeping with spirits of times. Individual ideological and ethical standards and patriotism education are subjects of education of revolutionary memorial which takes knowledge education as aide.Compared with school education, this education mode has four features in educational forms: universality, flexibility, vitality and optional nature, which decides that education of memorial should take its potentiality into full play to abstract spectators to visit and study.Difference between education of memorial and that of common museums mainly lies in educational contents. The former emphasizes purification and edifying of realm of spirit, which is also its most prominent feature. Therefore, it is helpful in promoting people to set up proper social ethics, enhancing patriotism and improving comprehensive national quality.In order to bring educational function of museums and memorials into better play, our country has come forth with many policies and measures, especially outline of development plan of 2004-2010 national red tourism printed and distributed by General Office of the Central Committee and State Council in December 2004 and notice on free openness of national museums and revolutionary memorials issued by ministries and commissions such as Propaganda Department, Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Culture and State Cultural Relics Bureau on January 23, 2008. Undoubtedly, it is a return of public good characteristics of museums and memorials. Therefore, visitors come thick and fast in an endless stream.There is obvious change in audience structure of revolutionary memorials. It takes new problems and challenges to development of revolutionary memorials while producing many new looks. How can we make people visit memorials not for the scene of bustle but tasting cultural connotations and comprehending essence of patriotism?First, it needs us to understand present problems. The essay takes statistics of audience situation of Beijing-Tianjin Campaign Memorial in 2008 as an example, conducts careful analysis and makes the conclusion that increasing audiences have more individual demands; adult audiences have taken place of young people as main part of age structure, so old education form can not meet with their demands; amount of people who visit independently is larger than that of group visit. Therefore, it is necessary to emphasize spiritual demands of individual audience.Hereby, there are several problems needed to be quickly solved: first, monadic explanation, simplified display, environment lack of associative perception ad lack of participation and interaction in educational form is less abstractive to audiences and affects results of education realization; second, improper expression of exhibition contents, wrong use of items on display or cultural relics and old fashioned contents of the exhibition undoubtedly damage professionalism and authority of revolutionary memorials seriously; third, awareness of education of employees in revolutionary memorials and audiences is relatively weak. They have not deeply realized important function and great significance of patriotism education and ideological and moral education. All of these are restraining factors seriously hindering exertion of future educational function of revolutionary memorials.It is not realistic to count on visitors to receive patriotism and ideological and moral education automatically. After awareness of our own disadvantages and insufficiency, we need to find solutions from ourselves. Looking for proper solutions according to problems is a necessary way to development.Conduct explanation according to individuals and enrich forms. Simply speaking, it is most helpful for realization of educational function to adopt suitable illustration ways according to people.Exhibition and display are core carriers of education implementation of revolutionary memorials and directly affect play exertion of educational function. Exhibition form should make following changes: definite exhibition themes, coordinating and unifying of artistic styles, proper utilization of various exhibition methods, and augmentation of interactive links. Visiting quality of visitors can be ensured and improved only through maximal satisfaction of their demands. In this way, publicity and education can be implemented efficiently with high quality.Ensure accuracy of contents and expressions. Comprehensive, deep and careful study of history of objects and relative cultural relics in memorials should be first conducted. Make cultural relics speak themselves and guarantee their understandability and reality. Second, enhance collection efforts of cultural relics and historical materials. Patriotism is not empty, and it needs many valuable cultural relics and study results as its support. Besides, it is necessary to ensure accuracy of exhibition contents. Do not make mistakes in words and contents such as a slip of a pen or copy mistake. Only right contents can convey whole and accurate information to make every cultural relic express history properly and represent history.Results of education of revolutionary memorials will form a good multi-benefit situation. The public benefit from memorials and promote their patriotism and sense of social responsibility automatically. At the same time, realization of educational function is an achievement of revolutionary memorials and promotes prosperous development of their overall causes. Moreover, realization of educational function is also a great support towards social development. Therefore, better realization of educational function is the most important among tasks of revolutionary memorials.