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¡¡¡¡This
project is designed for high school and college students and
invites domestic and foreign experts to spread mental health
knowledge in forms of campus lectures and the series course
Life Education---the Fundamentals of a Successful Life.
¡¡¡¡The
main purpose of Sunshine in Your Heart Project is to provide
the youth with healthy thinking mode, help them cultivate
healthy self-image, develop positive interpersonal skills,
solve conflicts, cultivate the character of establishing long-term
friendship and have correct idea on post-marriage sexuality;
help the youth to be mature at grow-up, become healthy, optimistic
and responsible young adults; prevent the youth from suicide,
depression, anxiety and drugs; reduce sexual babelism and
thus reduce sexual diseases, teenage pregnancy and AIDS.
¡¡¡¡The
Sunshine in Your Heart Project will use Beijing as its base,
and make joint efforts with other provinces to spread the
mental health education.
¡¡¡¡Various
lectures, courses and trainings will be held in the first
school semester (March, April, May and June) and the second
school semester (September, October, November, and December).
¡¡¡¡We'll
use the series book YTL Contemporary Youth Education (student's
version) as our teaching materials. The main subjects are
listed below:
¡¡¡¡1. How to establish a positive self-image
¡¡¡¡2. How to maintain a long-term friendship with others?
¡¡¡¡3. Interpersonal and communication skills---How to handle
the conflicts?
¡¡¡¡4. natural disposition health education in adolescence
¡¡¡¡5. Preparation for marriage---is it love, or something else?
¡¡¡¡6. Professional ethics----preparation for entering society
¡¡¡¡Brief
on project's achievements from 2004 to 2006
¡¡¡¡The
Youth Life Education Project's 100 Campus Lectures program
was initiated in 2004, which has held more than 150 sessions
of campus lectures with an audience of 60,000. The program
covered 60 colleges and schools in Beijing, Guangzhou, Shanghai,
Sichuan Province, Shandong Province, Yunnan Province, Hebei
Province and Tianjin etc. and had donated more than 50,000
volumes of books. We received more than 10,000 pieces of questions
in the lectures and more than 400 pieces of reflection essays
from the students. In two years, there have been more 100
colleges and schools called us to make a lecture reservation,
the project proved to be a big success and has been welcomed
warmly by society and academic institutions.
¡¡¡¡In 2006
alone, we've held 93 sessions of courses and lectures in 41
colleges and schools, the audience amounted to more 29,000.
From March, 2006, Beijing University adapted the teaching
materials from the Sunshine in Your Heart Project to open
a life education course for their students. The lecture time
was set to every Monday of March to June and September to
October. The 120-seats lecture hall, No.114 Classroom in Beijing
University's Electronic Classroom Building was always fully
occupied. The lectures delivered by foreign experts from Sunshine
in Your Heart Project and the teachers from the Education
College appealed to everyone present. Even those without a
seat stood to the last minute of the lectures. Students said:"every
Monday evening's lecture is our prime time." from which
we could see how much needed and welcomed is the life education
course among students.
¡¡¡¡Following
the Beijing University's practice, Capital Normal University
also integrated the Life Education---the Fundamentals of a
Successful Life in their General Elective Courses. According
to Mr. Zhao Kai from the psychology department, the registered
number of students who has selected this course is 108; however,
the number of the students actually attending this course
amounted to more than 140.
¡¡¡¡A student
from Beijing University wrote a reflection essay named My
Transformation through the Life Education, in which she said:"
I'm lucky to have selected this course, it has changed my
views of me and others, and it also has given me a new view
on human relationships in the society, and changed my attitude
towards life. I really appreciate it. Maybe my heart is still
sleeping, but I know it's waking; Maybe I'm still too impatient
with my parents, but I know I'm learning to love them; Maybe
I'm still afraid of dealing with strangers, but I know I'm
beginning to have senses of securities; Maybe I'm still obsessed
with tons of problems, but it matters little, because I know,
I'm growing up, these problems will season my character and
make me a better person. Now, I know it's unnecessary to fear
or worry, all I have to do, is to develop and mature."
¡¡¡¡"I
have to say that Life Education enables me to come into contact
with another type of education, which makes me understand
the ultimate purpose of education, especially the education
in college," says a student surnamed Lu from Beijing
University, "It also helps me realize some of my misunderstandings
on life issues, and equip me with a comprehensive thinking
habit to explore every confusion in life. Impressive and touching
as it is, this course gives me several crucial advices right
on time and has become a life-time guideline to me. "
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