Philosophical Thinking About College Student’s Leisure Education

With the development of social productive forces, people are having more and more leisure time, leading to a “universally leisured society”. The increase in the leisure time has imperceptibly transformed people’s leisure values and lifestyles. How to enrich the leisure time will have a direct impact on the all-around progress of the society and the comprehensive and healthy self-development of its people. Leisure life is a lifestyle in which human beings can freely develop itself and is a practice of human beings’ free and all-around development.Therefore, leisure education has become a worldwide concern.The essence of leisure education is to cultivate and complete human beings, aiming to promote its free and all-around development.How to make use of the abundant leisure time is of great importance for college students.However, there are plenty of problems in college leisure education for some reasons like the influence of utilitarianism in the society, the lack of leisure education on campus, students’ misunderstanding of leisure education, etc. Students cannot obtain constant happiness and pleasure after leisure time. Instead, they will feel empty, boring and valueless.This thesis investigates leisure education in college on the basis of literature review,comprehensive comparison and the integration of theory and practice. It consists of four chapters. The first chapter discusses Marxist philosophical principles from Marx’s theory of free time and the theory of human being’s all-round development. The second chapter defines relevant concepts and analyzes the logical relations, which will build a theoretical foundation for the following discussion. The third chapter discusses the current situation of college leisure educating and the existing problems and analyzes the causes of these problems so as to find effective solutions. Based on the analysis, the last chapter proposes aims and principlesof college leisure education and probes into the “quaternity method” to achieve successful college leisure education with the joint effort of the university, the society, the families and students themselves.This paper studies leisure education on college students from a philosophical perspective.I first conduct an in-depth analysis on the theory of human being’s leisure theory. After that,on the basis of the current leisure situation of college students, I explore the basic thoughts on and developmental approach to college students’ leisure education, which I consider as an indispensable part of college education. The purpose is to guide college students to develop favorable leisure habits and construct rational, healthy and positive way of leisure, which will be of great theoretical and practical significance for the development and improvement of college students’ personalities as well as their achievements of a free and all-around development.