Innovative education is an education with the basic value orientation of cultivating people's innovative spirit and ability.On  the basis of popularizing nine-year compulsory education, and in the  process of implementing quality education in an all-round way, in order  to meet the challenges of the era of knowledge-based economy, its core  is to study and solve the problem of how to cultivate the innovative  consciousness, spirit and ability of primary and secondary school  students in the field of basic education.

Interrelation

The relationship between creative education and creative education

Innovative education and creative education have the same side, but there are also many differences.Innovative education is put forward to meet the coming era of knowledge economy.Innovative  education is not only the reform of methods or the increase or decrease  of educational contents, but also the re-orientation of educational  functions, the value pursuit of educational innovation and development  with overall and structural characteristics, and the direction of  educational development in the new era. Although the orientation of our  research is to cultivate the innovative spirit and ability of primary  and secondary school students, it will actually bring about all-round  education in the future.Bit innovation.We  emphasize that the focus of innovative education is not only to make  small inventions and small production at the operational level, or to  cultivate only divergent thinking ability in subject teaching.These  things still need to be done in innovative education, but besides  considering these operational problems, we should also consider the  "soil" and good environment suitable for the growth of innovative  talents, which is more important than anything.This is in line with the basic principles of Marxism. The environment has a great impact on people, especially on young people.So, can we take the banner of creative education and carry out innovative education? No, the times are different.Innovative  education and creative education in the past have inheritance  relations, but it is not something that follows the past.Of course, the two are not contradictory. They are interlinked in many aspects, especially in the basic aspects.In my opinion, creative education is the development and sublimation of creative education under the new historical conditions.We  can't split tradition, but it's meaningless for us to spend time and  energy on the debate of nouns and terminology instead of making  arguments and debates on these issues.

The relationship between innovative education and quality education

This  issue has been clearly stated in the Decision of the Central Committee  of the Communist Party of China and the State Council on Deepening the  Reform of Education and Promoting Quality Education in an All-round Way  issued during the National Conference on Education. It is not that  innovative education should leave the quality education as a new  starting point, but that quality education should focus on cultivating  students'innovative spirit and practical ability.Some  people say that innovative education has pushed quality education to a  new stage. Innovative education is the soul and core of quality  education. Innovative education has found a "grasp" for implementing  quality education and deepening quality education.Over the past few years, quality education has always felt a bit like a tiger eating?? I don't know where to start.Firstly, we should do more activities and do more sound, body and beauty, but we feel that we can't just stay at this level.Nowadays,  it is felt that innovative education has grasped a core content of  quality education and can become a "grasp". Moreover, innovative spirit  and innovative ability are easy to refine and operate, and can drive all  aspects of quality education with it.On  October 20, 1999, China Educational Newspaper reported the topic of  innovative education on the front page of the conference. It was pointed  out that innovation is the key to the implementation of quality  education.It has never been mentioned in the past, but it makes sense to think carefully.This  is the instruction of General Secretary Jiang. Innovation is a key  issue concerning the future and destiny of the country. Secondly,  quality education should improve the quality of the whole nation and the  innovation ability of the whole nation. It is consistent with the goal  pursued by innovative education. Thirdly, the implementation of quality  education must innovate on a series of issues, including educational  concept, educational ideology, educational system, educational content  and education.All methods should be innovative.If we do not innovate, or follow the old set, quality education will be difficult to implement.Therefore,  whether from the development of the times, the needs of modernization,  the needs of educational reform, the advocacy of the Party and state  leaders, or from the goal of quality education, innovative education is  to enable quality education to be truly implemented.As  Lu Fuyuan, Vice Minister of Education, said: Deepening education reform  and comprehensively implementing quality education have many aspects,  among which the most important is the spirit of innovation and  innovation ability.It can ensure the implementation of quality education and deepen it.

Education implementation

The  so-called innovative education means that the whole process of  education is endowed with the characteristics of human innovative  activities, and on this basis, education aiming at cultivating  innovative talents and realizing the all-round development of human  beings can be achieved.The so-called innovative talents should include innovative spirit and innovative ability.Among them, the spirit of innovation is mainly composed of innovation consciousness and quality.Innovative  ability includes people's innovative perception ability, innovative  thinking ability and innovative imagination ability.From  the relationship between them, the spirit of innovation is an important  internal factor and subjective condition affecting the generation and  development of innovation ability, and the improvement of innovation  ability is the most favorable rational support to enrich the spirit of  innovation.

The  implementation of innovative education is to start with the cultivation  of innovative spirit, to improve the innovative ability as the core,  and to promote the independent construction and coordinated development  of students'overall quality.The  spirit and ability of innovation is not innate, although it is  influenced by genetic factors, but mainly lies in the acquired training  and education.The  process of innovative education is not the passive and passive moulding  process of the educated, but the process of giving full play to their  subjectivity and initiative, making the teaching process become the  process of the educated's continuous understanding, pursuing exploration  and perfecting themselves, that is, the process of cultivating the  educated's independent learning, bold exploration and innovative  ability.Therefore,  in the process of teaching, we should devote ourselves to cultivating  students'innovative consciousness, innovative ability and practical  ability.

Transforming Educational Viewpoint and Cultivating Innovative Awareness

The  change of teacher's concept is the key and prerequisite for  implementing innovative education. It is impossible to cultivate  students with innovative consciousness without changing teacher's  concept.First  of all, we should recognize the status and role of teachers and  students in classroom teaching, the relationship between teaching and  learning, play the leading role of teachers and the main role of  students, fully mobilize students'learning initiative and enthusiasm, so  that students can participate in classroom teaching activities with  full enthusiasm.Constructivist  theory holds that knowledge is not acquired by imparting knowledge, but  by means of meaning construction with the help of others (including  teachers and learning partners) in a certain context, i.e. social and  cultural background.Therefore,  teachers should be organizers, instructors, helpers and evaluators in  the process of students'learning, rather than inculcators of knowledge,  and should not impose teachers' consciousness on students; while  students are participants, explorers and collaborators in teaching  activities, students'learning motivation, emotion and will play a  decisive role in the learning effect.Secondly,  in teaching methods, we should also change the traditional injection  into heuristic, discussion and inquiry. Through independent thinking,  students can deal with the information acquired, integrate the old and  new knowledge, and construct a new knowledge system. Only in this way  can students form good learning habits, obtain the joy of success,  satisfy their psychological needs, and embody their self-worth, so as to  achieve good learning habits.Further stimulate their intrinsic learning motivation and increase their innovative consciousness.

Creating Teaching Atmosphere and Providing Innovative Stage

Classroom  teaching atmosphere is the external manifestation of teachers'and  students' immediate psychological activities. It is a psychological  state produced by the interaction of teachers'and students' emotions,  emotions, teaching and learning attitudes, teachers'prestige, students'  attention and other factors.A  good teaching atmosphere is formed by the co-regulation and control of  teachers and students. The essence is to deal with the relationship  between teachers and students, teaching and learning, so that students  can truly feel that they are the masters of learning, the key to  teaching success or failure, and the ultimate embodiment of teaching  effect.Therefore,  teachers should be good at regulating classroom teaching activities,  creating a democratic, equal, harmonious, integrated, cooperative and  mutually respectful learning atmosphere for students, allowing students  to study in a relaxed and happy mood, encouraging them to question  boldly and explore different ways to solve problems.The  classroom atmosphere can only be active if the teacher is close to him,  believes in him, and the teacher-student relationship is harmonious.  Only by creating a good teaching atmosphere can we provide a stage for  students to exercise their innovative ability.

Train innovative thinking and cultivate innovative ability

Innovative  thinking originates from conventional thinking process and is higher  than conventional thinking. It refers to new discoveries, new solutions  and new opinions on certain things, problems and viewpoints.Its  characteristic is to surpass or break through people's inherent  understanding, so that people's understanding "to a higher level".Therefore, creative thinking is the catalyst of creative ability.Questioning is an effective way to enlighten creative thinking.Therefore,  in classroom teaching, teachers should be good at asking questions,  guiding students to think independently, so that students can always  maintain an active state of thinking in the classroom.Through specific problems, students can grasp the key points and break through the difficulties.Albert  Einstein once said, "Imagination is more important than knowledge,  because `knowledge is limited, and imagination encompasses everything in  the world, promotes progress and is the source of knowledge evolution'.Imagination  refers to the psychological process of creating a new image through new  cooperation on the basis of perceptual materials.Through  imagination, people can see the problem from the surface to the inside,  from the phenomenon to the essence, from the known to the unknown, so  that the qualitative leap of thinking activities, rich imagination can  "impact" a new "spark".Therefore, students'imaginative thinking should be induced in the process of teaching.

Grasp the Research Method and Improve the Practical Ability

Scientific  research methods are the most effective means to realize innovation  ability. Any new discovery and new scientific achievements must be  studied by scientific methods and tested and demonstrated in practice.Therefore,  the basic procedure for teachers to make students master scientific  inquiry methods is to put forward questions - make assumptions - make  plans - implement plans - and draw conclusions.In  classroom teaching, students'practical ability is mainly trained  through experiments, and traditional demonstration experiments are  changed as much as possible.The  confirmatory experiment is exploratory experiment; in addition, it can  provide students with certain background materials and experimental  supplies, so that students can ask questions according to specific  background materials, design their own experimental scheme, observe,  analyze, think and discuss through the experiment, and finally draw  conclusions, which is conducive to the cultivation of  students'cooperative spirit and creative ability.Sometimes  the experiment does not necessarily achieve the desired results. At  this time, the teacher should guide the students to analyze the reasons  for the failure, find out the factors affecting the experimental  results, draw lessons from them and carry out the experiment again until  satisfactory results are achieved.This not only improves students'practical ability, but also cultivates students' ability to resist frustration.

The Ability and Knowledge Structure Teachers Should Have

In  modern society, the growth and renewal of the weight of knowledge and  the emergence of new disciplines have accelerated the renewal of  teaching content and curriculum reform, calling for lifelong education.Continuous learning has become an inevitable requirement of modern people.Teachers  become imparters of knowledge. They should adapt themselves to the  development needs of modern education, constantly learn new knowledge  and constantly update their knowledge structure.Inheritance is learning; innovation is learning.In  order to improve the ability of self-study, teachers must be able to  achieve: (1) purposeful learning; (2) selective learning; (3)  independent learning; (4) self-regulation in learning.Ultimately embark on the road of independent and innovative learning, to learn and guide, to learn and teach.At  the same time, the knowledge structure of teachers must be reasonable.  Teachers in modern society should not only use yesterday's knowledge to  teach today's students to adapt to tomorrow's society. As teachers,  besides mastering extensive scientific and cultural knowledge, they  should have psychological and pedagogical knowledge, and master modern  information technology to meet the needs of modern development. Only in  this way can they become good teachers and teach students well.

Use new information to trigger innovation inspiration

In modern society, teachers should cultivate students'ability to collect and process the latest information.With  the rapid development of science and technology, the emergence of new  technologies and achievements, the information that is constantly  changing comes in a flood, which makes people unable to see.Only  by constantly acquiring and storing new information and grasping the  latest developments of scientific development can we have a keen insight  into things and generate innovative inspiration.Otherwise, innovation will become a water-free source and a soil-free wood.Therefore,  students should be guided to obtain new information through various  channels, such as library, television, newspaper, internet, social  survey and so on, so as to lay a solid knowledge foundation for  innovation. Only in this way can we build a high house of science, plan  strategically, control the trend of scientific development, and achieve  fruitful results in innovation ability.

Educational content

The  content of innovative education can be roughly divided into thinking  education, discovery education, invention education, information  education, learning education, infiltration education, art education,  participation education, future education, personality education,  harmonious education, etc.Focus on cultivating innovative spirit, innovative ability and innovative personality.

The  spirit of innovation mainly includes curiosity, interest in inquiry,  thirst for knowledge, sensitivity to new things, persistent pursuit of  true knowledge, perseverance in discovery, invention, innovation,  pioneering and enterprising spirit, which is the soul and motivation of a  person's innovation.

Innovative  ability mainly includes creative thinking ability, creative imagination  ability, creative planning, organizing and implementing the ability of  certain activities, which is the essence of the power of innovation.

Innovative  personality mainly includes innovative sense of responsibility,  mission, career, persistent love, indomitable will and perseverance,  good mentality that can withstand setbacks and failures, and tenacious  character, which is the fundamental guarantee for innovation and  achievement.

Misunderstanding in Education

Misunderstanding

Innovation education is "small invention, small creation".

Talking  about innovative education, some primary and secondary school leaders  and teachers naturally relate to students'"small inventions, small  creations". They believe that innovative education will be achieved in  schools with more students' "small inventions, small creations".Otherwise, there will be no results.Therefore,  some schools put forward the index of "small invention, small  creation", and teachers and students try their best to do so.Some  of our media and administrative officials have also widely publicized  schools with more "small inventions and small creations" as models of  innovative education.All  these have led some primary and secondary school educators to  misunderstand innovative education: innovative education is "small  invention, small creation".

Misunderstanding two

Innovative  education is to train students'innovative thinking (also called  creative thinking), and innovative thinking is divergent thinking.

The task of innovative education mentioned above is to cultivate students'innovative quality.Innovation  is a kind of comprehensive quality. Experts believe that it mainly  consists of three elements: innovative personality, innovative thinking  and innovative skills.The  key and most important of the above three elements is innovative  personality, followed by innovative thinking, and finally innovative  skills.Therefore,  the task of innovative education is to cultivate students'innovative  personality, thinking and skills, not just innovative thinking.

Orientation of Education

Innovative education is the common requirement of all kinds of education at all levels.For  basic education, we should focus on the cultivation of people's  innovative spirit and ability, and lay a preliminary foundation for the  sustainable development of people's innovative quality.

Cognitive Orientation of Innovative Education

The orientation of innovative education can be multi-dimensional, in which cognitive orientation is a very important aspect.There  are many misunderstandings in the field of educational practice on the  understanding of innovative education. Clarifying these vague  understandings is of great significance to the practice of innovative  education in schools.

--Innovation is only for a few gifted students.Many teachers believe that innovation is human's advanced wisdom, which is beyond the reach of ordinary students.In  fact, innovation is human nature, everyone has the potential and  tendency of innovation; innovation is the need of human survival, as  long as people survive for a day, innovation is also inseparable.The  key is whether our acquired education respects, protects and nurtures  this potential, stimulates, promotes and meets this need."Learning  to Survive" once pointed out that "education has both the power to  cultivate and suppress the creative spirit". People's creative spirit  and ability are not entirely determined by innate factors, and acquired  educational factors are also important determinants.Therefore, innovative education should be holistic and should be geared to every student.

--Innovation is only a matter of natural science.Many  people think that innovation is scientific discovery and technological  invention. Only scientific education can cultivate people's innovative  spirit and ability.In  fact, not only natural sciences need innovation, but also social  sciences and humanities. Especially in today's increasingly negative  effects of science and technology, scientific and technological  innovation and humanistic innovation should develop in a balanced way so  that the future society is both highly intelligent and emotional.Moreover, even the innovation of natural science can not be separated from the support of social and humanistic thinking mode.For  example, Teacher Tan Diao's "Philosophical Poetry Training" in Changsha  Jiuzhong is not only a kind of humanistic innovation training, but also  supports the spirit of scientific innovation.Therefore, innovative education should be global and oriented to every subject.

--Innovation is just an extracurricular activity.Many  teachers also think that the task of classroom teaching is to impart  knowledge, and the development of knowledge is an extracurricular  activity.In fact, this distinction artificially separates the internal relationship between inheritance and innovation.Innovation  is a global change in the whole educational mode, system and concept,  not a partial modification or reduction. It should run through all  aspects of classroom teaching, extracurricular activities and daily  educational life, and become the spiritual characteristics of all modern  education. Local educational innovation can not be truly innovative  education.Among them, classroom teaching is the main channel of innovative education and the focus of school education reform.Therefore, 6lJ new education is also comprehensive, which is the overall reform of the education system.

--Innovation is only a matter of intellectual activity.Others believe that innovation is a person's intellectual performance, high intelligence will inevitably have high innovation.This is also a misconception.Innovation  is not only an intellectual characteristic, but also a personality or  personality characteristic. It is a condensed expression of a person's  comprehensive quality, a person's self-transcendence and  self-development, and a full realization of a person's potential and  value.Under  the condition that human intelligence level is equal or constant,  non-intellectual factors often play a decisive role. Many innovative  people are not super-intelligent, but outstanding personality  characteristics of non-intelligence.Simple intellectual activity can only train craftsmen, but not masters.Therefore, innovative education is also comprehensive, which is an overall improvement of the quality of individual life.

--Innovation has only positive effects.Almost all entrants believe that innovation is a "positive" and "good" thing, and people can pursue it heartily.Who  knows, innovation is a double-edged sword, it can become an angel, can  also become a devil; can benefit mankind, can also cause human  misfortune.What  kind of high-level crime in modern society is not the result of  innovation? Innovation is only a tool, not the direction itself.  Innovation can not be the goal alone. Innovation education can not  replace all of modern education. It must integrate with moral education,  cultivate people's sympathy and sense of responsibility, and lead  people's innovative spirit and ability to the direction of benefiting  mankind.Therefore,  innovative education has dual nature, and modern education must be  committed to mutual integration, promoting advantages and eliminating  disadvantages.

Target Orientation of Innovative Education

Basic  education is the education for the individual to enter a higher school,  the sustainable development of their own quality and the preparation  for the future society. Innovative education in the basic education  stage should also lay the foundation for the students'sustainable  innovation in the future.Then,  what are the innovative qualities with deep foundation and wide  migration? This is also the question that the orientation of innovative  education should be given priority to answer.Generally  speaking, laying the foundation for sustainable innovation mainly  includes two aspects: one is to lay the foundation of innovation spirit,  the other is to lay the foundation of innovation ability.

Innovative  spirit is the characteristic of innovative personality and the internal  attitude and orientation of subject innovation. It includes three  aspects: innovative consciousness, innovative emotion and innovative  will.

--Innovation consciousness.Innovation  consciousness is an individual's internal psychological tendency to  pursue new knowledge. Once this tendency is stabilized, it will become  the individual's spirit and culture.Empirical  research shows that people with innovative consciousness are often not  satisfied with reality and have a strong critical attitude; are not  satisfied with themselves and have the spirit of continuous  transcendence; are not satisfied with the past and have the ability of  positive reflection; are not satisfied with achievements and have a  strong spirit of pioneering and enterprising; are not afraid of  difficulties and risk-taking; are not afraid of change, are not afraid  of challenges, have the spirit of seeking truth;The spirit of competition and cooperation; strong curiosity, strong thirst for knowledge, rich imagination and broad interests.These qualities should be paid more attention to in basic education.

--Innovative emotions.Innovative  emotion is an individual's internal psychological experience in pursuit  of new knowledge, which will be transformed into individual motivation  and ideal if it is constantly strengthened.Empirical  research also shows that people with innovative emotions are often  emotionally exquisite and rich, and small changes outside can cause  strong inner experience; optimistic, open-minded and tolerant attitude  towards life, can maintain a calm and relaxed attitude for a relatively  long time; serious attitude towards study and work, meticulous, strong  sense of achievement, and a strong sense of organization for all life in  the world;They  have compassion and responsibility, and are willing to do their best to  improve their living conditions. These are also the priorities of basic  education.

--Innovative will.Innovative  will is a state of self-conscious initiative for individuals to pursue  new knowledge. If this state is maintained for a long time, it will  become an individual's habit and character.Empirical  studies have shown that people with innovative will are often able to  eliminate all kinds of external interference and focus on their own  activities for a long time; they are diligent, decisive, self-demanding  and strict in their work; they are good at communication and  coordination, have strong organizational ability and flexibility, and  are willing to change their ways and methods to achieve their goals;Institutional  power is not easy to give up one's own opinions and tolerate  others'opinions or even mistakes before there is sufficient evidence and  reason. These qualities should also be formed at the stage of basic  education.

Innovative  ability is the wisdom characteristic of innovation and the activity  level and skill of subject innovation. It includes two aspects:  innovative thinking and innovative activities.

--Innovative thinking.Innovative  thinking is a novel, unique and flexible way of problem solving at the  concept level. Innovative thinking is the premise and foundation of  innovative practice, and it is impossible to achieve if one does not  expect it.Empirical  research shows that people with innovative thinking often feel keen and  flexible, can find problems that ordinary people can't see and can  consider solutions from multiple perspectives; understand deeply,  understand novelty, can penetrate the essence of things and can think  creatively; think dialectically and seek truth from facts, can  reasonably use divergence and convergence, logic and intuition, positive  and reverse thinking.Ways, not to go to extremes, can grasp the intermediate state of things, etc.These qualities are the focus of thinking training in the stage of basic education.

--Innovative activities.Innovation  is a new, unique and flexible way to solve problems at the practical  level. Innovation is the development and end-result of innovative  thinking. It is worthless to think that can not stand the test of  practice.Empirical  research also shows that people with innovative ability often  experience abundant practical activities or frustrations in life, and  have experienced a lot of practical problems; they are willing to design  and produce, and have a strong desire to turn ideas or theories into  reality; they are not bound by ready-made frameworks, and constantly try  to make mistakes, constantly reflect on and constantly correct; they  are willing to participate in various forms of activities, happy.Seeking for novelty, novelty and novelty.These are also innovative quality goals that should be considered in basic education.

Three levels

Innovative Education as a Thought and Concept

To accurately grasp the connotation of innovation thought, we should first understand the connotation of innovation concept.

According  to American sociologist Alex Inkels, there are three main ways to  understand the essence of concepts: historical approach, empirical  approach and analytical approach.

1.The way of history is what the founders said.American  economist Peter Schumpeter first put forward "innovation theory" from  an economic point of view in his Economic Development Theory in 1912.  Its core concepts are "innovation", "new combination", "development" and  "entrepreneur".He  inspected the above concepts from two perspectives of "static" and  "dynamic". He believed that the static economic production process did  not change and did not develop. Total income of enterprises equaled to  total innovation, which refers to the innovation of the internal  structure of things. Innovation process refers to the promotion of new  combinations of internal factors through the external role.As  innovative talents, "entrepreneurs" should have innovative spirit,  innovative will, and be able to experience the joy of innovation.

2.The way of empiricism is what contemporary people are doing.There are four aspects for contemporary people to discuss innovation: (1) Focusing on the Enlightenment of thought.In  the Decision on Deepening Educational Reform and Promoting Quality  Education in an All-round Way, the Central Committee of the Communist  Party of China and the State Council clearly pointed out that quality  education "focuses on cultivating students'innovative spirit and  practical ability", "stimulates students' independent thinking and  innovative consciousness", "cultivates students'scientific spirit and  innovative thinking habits".President  Jiang Zemin has published several expositions on the role of innovation  on different occasions. He said that "innovation is the soul of a  nation's progress and the inexhaustible motive force for the country's  prosperity and development..."The  development of science and technology and the innovation of knowledge  increasingly determine the development process of a country or a nation.One of the fundamentals of innovation is to rely on education and talents.(2) From the perspective of knowledge economy.Debra  Emmeton defines innovation as "creating, developing, communicating and  applying new ideas for the sake of excellence of enterprises, prosperity  of national economy, and progress of society as a whole, so as to  transform them into marketable goods and services".Its  starting point is that innovation is a value system, its core is to  push ideas to the market, and its process is to push theory to practice."We  live in a world where the application of new ideas may be the most  important competitive advantage." The key to success is not only the  number of new ideas, but also the realization of these ideas.(3) from the perspective of environment.In  1979, the Club of Rome published a research report entitled "Answering  the Challenges of the Future", in which it proposed that the solution to  the gap lies in promoting a new concept of learning - innovative  learning, which is based on the acquisition of existing knowledge and  experience so as to improve the ability of sustained learning to solve  the problems that have occurred.To  improve a person's ability to discover, absorb new information and  raise new problems through learning, in order to meet the changing  society and innovative learning.(4) Focus on the research of innovation methods and innovation system.UNESCO  held a conference on the theme "Higher Education in the 21st Century:  Perspectives and Action" at its headquarters in Paris from 5 to 9  October 1998.One of the themes of this conference is to propose new innovative education methods: critical thinking and creativity.It  puts forward suggestions from four aspects: firstly, higher education  should re-examine and arrange the contents, methods and teaching methods  of higher education in a new partnership with the community and various  sectors of society; secondly, it should have a new student-centered  perspective and model, so that students can think and analyze social  problems in a critical spirit and seek solutions; thirdly, it should  re-establish courses.Cheng,  based on students'ability to acquire skills, talents and communication;  fourth, the new textbooks should not only enhance memory, but also  enhance understanding, practical working skills and creativity.

As  can be seen from the above discussion, nowadays people have not formed a  unified understanding of innovation or innovative education, and the  discussion of innovative ideas is still in the descriptive stage.

3.The way of analysis is what is the rational indication.From a rational point of view, we must first distinguish the relationship between the concept of innovation and creation.Current  research can be roughly divided into two categories: 1) equal  relationship, which equates innovation with creation. They think that  they all produce new ideas, technologies and products through  innovation, invention and production. In essence, they have no  difference; 2) inclusion relationship, which holds that creative  education is contained in innovative education.Mr.  Lin Chongde clearly pointed out that the most important symbol of  creativity is innovation, because innovation is the core of knowledge  value, the higher the knowledge of innovation, the higher its value."The  author believes that grasping the exact meaning of the word should  include two aspects, namely, from the perspective of etymology and  practice.From  the perspective of etymology, we can accurately grasp the original  meaning of words, but with the changes of the times and the development  of society, the meaning of words will change, so only by combining the  characteristics and practice of the times can we finally grasp the  accurate connotation of words.According  to the interpretation of Cihai, "creation" means "initiation", while  "creation" means "initiation of unprecedented things".

Innovation means not only innovation and innovation, but also new ideas, new methods and new inventions.From  the perspective of etymology, creation refers to the creation of  unprecedented things, emphasizing originality; and innovation includes  not only the creation of new things through internal innovation under  realistic conditions or material basis, but also spiritual creativity,  such as new methods and new means.From  the point of view of the characteristics of the times and practical  significance, more creation refers to invention and creation in  practice. Its products may either meet the needs of reality or may not  be appropriate.However,  the standpoint of innovation is "new", which is a kind of creation that  meets the needs of the times by transforming reality, and has the  characteristics of the times.Therefore, "Innovation is not equal to creation. The concept of innovation includes creation, not vice versa.People usually say that creation belongs to the highest level of innovation.

The  above analysis and analysis of the concepts of creativity and  innovation can help us understand creative education and innovation  education.The  core of creative education is to cultivate students'creativity.  Innovative education is not only to cultivate students' creativity, but  also to consciously cultivate students'innovative spirit, concept,  consciousness and attitude.Therefore,  we believe that innovative education is an education with the core of  cultivating people's creative ability, the basic value orientation of  cultivating people's innovative spirit and ability, focusing on  cultivating students'innovative consciousness, concept and attitude.

Innovative Education as an Educational Principle

The  principle of education is the basic requirement and criterion that must  be followed in the process of education and teaching. It runs through  all aspects of education and teaching."There  are laws to teach, but there are no laws." The former law here refers  to the laws and principles of education. Education and teaching  activities must adhere to and follow the laws and principles of  education.Educational  principle is the concentration and condensation of educational thought,  and the induction and generalization of educational thought.For  example, from Comenius'educational thought that education should be  adapted to nature, people generalize the principles of intuition and  gradual progress; German educator Didoway refines the educational  principles of teaching from his thought of normal education; the  principle of activity is inseparable from Dewey's thoughts of "education  is growth", "education is life", "education is experience's continuous  transformation";Principles of coagulating the students'ability to teach.In the process of globalization, in order to meet the challenge of knowledge economy, education must make new choices.Comrade  Jiang Zemin said in the third church that education is "the main base  of knowledge innovation, dissemination and application, and also the  cradle of cultivating innovative spirit and innovative talents".  Therefore, education must establish the principle of innovation.

As an educational principle, innovative education has different requirements at different levels of education.Higher  education institutions are not only the base of personnel training, but  also the place of knowledge generation and technological innovation.  Innovative education is more manifested in the cultivation of  students'ability of knowledge transformation and creation of new  knowledge.But  in the stage of basic education, the aim of innovative education is not  to make students invent and create many new things, but to cultivate  students'innovative consciousness, ideas and attitudes through effective  education and teaching, and to shape their creative ability.Therefore,  as a principle, innovative education refers to the work of school  education and teaching must focus on the cultivation of  students'creative ability. Through active management and effective  teaching, students' innovative ideas and attitudes are updated, and  students'innovative spirit and ability are trained, which can be summed  up as "teaching for innovation".

Every new idea is a sublation of the past.Innovative education in the era of knowledge economy is the sublation of traditional education.French  educator Springer said that "education is not simply a cultural  transmission, education is education, is it is a personality of the  mind" awakening ", which is the core of education."Cultivating  students'innovative spirit, renewing their innovative ideas and shaping  their creative ability lies in arousing students' sleeping spirit  through the role of education.To implement the principle of innovative education is to implement educational innovation.Specifically,  the following aspects should be included: (1) Renewal of educational  ideas and concepts, giving students a real equal status, only in an  equal position, can students dare to question the authority of teachers,  put forward innovative ideas, and exercise their innovative ability.(2)  To reform the school management system, the traditional management  method is characterized by "management", aiming at cultivating  students'obedient personality. Innovative education requires liberating  students' personality, implementing open management, and forming a  relaxed and harmonious atmosphere for innovative talents to stand out.Tao Xingzhi put forward the idea of "six liberations" of children's creativity in "Creative Children's Education".One  is to emancipate children's minds, that is, to renew their concepts;  the other is to emancipate children's hands, that is, to cultivate  students'practical ability and provide students with opportunities for  practical exercise; the third is to emancipate children's mouth, that  is, to allow students to ask questions and questions, which is the  source of students' creative thinking; the fourth is to liberate  children's space, that is, not to confine children to the classroom, but  to be full.Use  the educational facilities of schools, society and other educational  institutions to provide students with a rich and colorful life, so that  children can master knowledge in a free space; Fifth, liberate  children's time, children spend most of their time in dealing with  teachers'homework and school examinations, students lack time to think,  reducing the burden of students is to free students from invalid time,  there is plenty of time.The  sixth is to liberate children's eyes, that is, to cultivate  students'observation ability. Teachers should make full use of modern  educational technology and combine the principle of intuitive teaching  to cultivate students' good observation ability step by step.Mr. Tao's viewpoint on creative education is a cry for traditional teaching and a demand for today's innovative education.(3)  Reform the traditional curriculum design, in order to meet the trend of  knowledge integration in the world and cultivate innovative talents in  China, the curriculum design of foreign primary and secondary schools  pays attention to cultivating students'independent activity ability and  creativity, implements the combination of compulsory courses and  elective courses, intellectualized courses and comprehensive courses,  pays attention to the life breath of courses, and pays special attention  to the individual differences of students.It is also developing in the direction of miniaturization.The  basic curriculum of primary and secondary schools in our country is  knowledge-oriented and pays attention to the logic of subject knowledge,  but the degree of integration is not high.In  order to reform the curriculum design, we should not only emphasize the  comprehensiveness of the curriculum in content, but also add  life-related courses and some creative courses in structure.(4)  To improve teachers'educational concepts, teaching methods and means,  first of all, we should change the idea of teachers' knowledge  positioning, from teaching students to learn knowledge to teaching  students to learn to judge, learn to choose and learn to survive;  secondly, we should use modern educational technology to create a  suitable teaching environment, mobilize students'active participation,  self-learning, self-experience, and help students form their subjective  spirit and intention.Understanding and forming innovative ability.(5)  To reform the existing evaluation system and form a plurality of  evaluation criteria and means so as to facilitate the growth and  development of talents with various qualities.

Innovative Education as an Activity

Innovative  education as an activity refers to the specific arrangements and  Strategies of schools and other social institutions in management and  teaching in order to cultivate students'innovative ability.Innovative  education activities not only permeate classroom teaching activities,  but also include special activities to cultivate students'innovative  ability and a series of activities carried out by social education  institutions to cultivate students' innovative consciousness and  literacy.Schools  are often regarded as the most important institution to cultivate  students'innovative ability, but schools are by no means the only  institution.It is a systematic project to cultivate students'innovative ability, which requires close cooperation from all social systems.As  shown in the figure, the cultivation of students'innovative ability can  be carried out not only through classroom teaching, scientific and  technological activities and special school-based courses in schools,  but also by employing students' parents and scientific research experts  with special abilities to give special lectures to broaden  students'knowledge and cultivate their innovative consciousness. In  addition, schools can cooperate with local scientific institutions to  create a second classroom and cultivate students' innovative  consciousness.Scientific and technological literacy and innovative spirit.Therefore,  to carry out innovative education activities, we should take schools as  the center and establish a systematic and coordinated operation  mechanism in the whole society, which is the guarantee of implementing  innovative education.

Starting  from the ideas and principles of innovative education, we believe that  the principals of elementary education have taken on too much work  inconsistent with their roles and identities, teachers'creative  inspiration has not been fully developed, and students' innovative  potential has been restrained too much. Therefore, the premise of  innovative education is liberation.From this point of view to understand innovative education, innovative education activities have the following aspects:

1.Subjective activities.It  is necessary to maintain students'principal position, arouse students'  principal consciousness, develop students'subjectivity to help students  understand themselves, play an active role, and respect students'  independent personality in order to achieve the cultivation of  innovative consciousness.

2.Democratic activities.First  of all, there must be democracy between teachers and students, so that  there can be real equality between teachers and students, equality  between teachers and students, communication and communication between  teachers and students.With  this harmonious atmosphere, students dare to question the authority,  express their creative thinking, and cultivate their innovative spirit.

3.Interactive activities.Firstly,  students'innovative consciousness, emotion, attitude and innovative  ability will not be greatly changed by reading declarative knowledge in  textbooks.Cognitive  psychology holds that learning is "based on existing experience and  through interaction with the outside world to construct a new  understanding [15].When  learners construct their understanding of things based on their own  experience, different people see different aspects of things, and there  is no only standard understanding of things. Therefore, "teaching should  make students transcend their own understanding, see those different  understandings and see the other side of things".Based on this understanding, the social interaction between teachers and students, students and students becomes necessary.Interactive  activity is to enrich students'cognition through mutual communication  in specific teaching practice, so as to facilitate the extensive  transfer of learning.Let  students learn to choose, judge, acquire knowledge and cultivate their  creativity in specific activities and in the interaction with the  society and the surrounding environment.Secondly,  every kind of creativity of students should be tested in practical  activities and get feedback information, so that students can get  creative experience.Through  certain forms of activities, students are encouraged to explore for  themselves, to seek solutions to problems in conflicts, and to enhance  confidence and courage in dealing with difficulties and crises. This is  the essence of innovative activities.

4.Independent self-study activities.One  of the characteristics of knowledge economy society is that the  knowledge aging cycle is shorter, the product replacement is  accelerated, and 90% of the knowledge that meets people's work needs can  only be acquired through continuous learning in future work.As  early as May 1972, the International Education Committee of UNESCO  published "Learning to Survive - Today and Tomorrow in the Educational  World", which put forward the idea of lifelong learning. Therefore, how  to acquire the knowledge one needs through effective means will become a  symbol to measure one's innovative ability in the future.Cultivating students'ability to study independently is one of the main contents of carrying out innovative education activities.

In  the current practice of primary and secondary education, people often  attach importance to small inventions, small creations and activities  such as extracurricular activities. For primary and secondary school  students, the most important thing is to cultivate students'innovative  ideas.The  activities such as small inventions and small creations should not  constitute an end in themselves, but should embody the idea of  innovative education in these activities and be carried out according to  the principles of innovative education so as to achieve the goal of  cultivating students'innovative consciousness, concept and attitude.

Core content

To  construct national innovation system and implement innovation strategy  for knowledge economy includes a series of important links. In addition  to knowledge innovation and technological innovation, we must attach  importance to the links between them and conceptual innovation,  organizational innovation, management innovation and institutional  innovation. Educational innovation is no exception.Comrade  Jiang Zemin pointed out: "We must change the educational concepts and  modes that hinder the development of students'innovative spirit and  ability, especially the one-way infusion of knowledge by teachers, the  sole criterion for measuring educational achievements by examination  scores, and the rigid educational and teaching system."That  is to say, educational innovation should include the innovation of  educational concept, educational mode, teaching content, teaching  methods, educational evaluation and educational system. It is a grand  social system engineering, which requires the joint efforts of the  educational field and the whole society.

It  should be said that the implementation of "innovative education" is an  important part of "educational innovation", but the former must more  clearly point to how to cultivate students'innovative spirit and  practical ability.If  the research content of "innovative education" is extended to all  aspects of "educational innovation", it will affect the effect of the  experiment.There  is no doubt that "innovative education is not only the reform of  educational methods or the increase or decrease of educational contents,  but also the re-orientation of educational functions. It is the value  pursuit of comprehensive and structural educational innovation and  educational development.However,  it differs from other macro-studies such as "educational innovation"  and "educational modernization". Therefore, we suggest that the focus of  innovative education should be on teaching ideas, modes, contents and  methods, as a breakthrough point for deepening educational and teaching  reform in primary and secondary schools, and comprehensively promoting  quality education, so as to become an experimental teaching reform  activity in which all teachers and students can participate.The  main body of the experiment is students and teachers, and the object of  the reform is educational and teaching behavior patterns such as  curriculum learning and classroom teaching.

Innovative  education with the primary goal of cultivating students'innovative  spirit can be launched around the three-level core content of  "innovation". Through various forms of school education, students'  exploratory spirit of "rediscovering" knowledge can be trained, their  comprehensive ability of "recombining" knowledge can be trained, and  their creative consciousness and creative ability can be prepared for  "unprecedented creation".

Core idea

Believing that every student can be made

Tao Xingzhi,  a famous educator in modern China, once pointed out that creativity is  the nature of children. In some cases, our education not only develops  this natural nature, but suppresses the impulse of children to create.The proposal  of innovative education requires us to look at students with  appreciation, so that every child's potential can be brought into full  play.Educators should firmly believe that every student can be created, especially the creative potential of "underachievers".To be sure, every student is a piece of land to be developed or further reclaimed.Educators  should regard it as the resources and wealth of education and make use  of it. Through innovative education, students'various potentials can be  realized.When it  comes to "innovation", people will soon be associated with genius. It  seems that innovation is beyond the reach of ordinary students.In fact,  there is no insurmountable gap between people and people in terms of IQ.  Most people have similar congenital conditions.In practice,  educators should firmly believe that all students have the same  creative potential. In the face of "innovation", there is no difference  between underachievers and top students.The key lies  in how you exploit and tap. Teachers should treat every student well in  practice and try to develop every student's creative potential.

Liberating Children is the Hope of Innovative Education

In today's  era, human subjectivity is unprecedented, and any strangulation of human  subjectivity and free will is almost regarded as a crime, because life  has the nature of pursuing freedom.People  advocate democracy and yearn for freedom. The essence or essence of  freedom is self-choice, self-determination, self-pursuit and  self-realization.However,  modern education is used to replace children's choice, instead of  children's thinking, forcing students to accept, confining  students'freedom, suppressing students' personality, violating the  nature of human nature, social nature and the pursuit of freedom. The  purpose is to shape children into a specific person according to the  presupposed standards of society.Therefore,  students'anti-education and anti-education phenomena continue to emerge,  and new education is weak. Education has become a means of alienating  people. It is not to guide the development of human potential, but to  become a coercive and formidable external force.