Author(s): Feng Yajing, Zhu Nan, Wang Jiaojiao

Organization(s):  1.Department of Psychology and Special Education, 2.China National Academy of Educational Sciences

Source: Chinese Journal of Special Education

ISSN: 1007-3728

Date: 2024.06

Abstract:  Labor education is an important part of the socialist education system with Chinese characteristics and an important part of the comprehensive development of the education system, and it is more realistic and urgent to carry out labor education in schools for children with intellectual disabilities. Through interviews with 16 teachers and administrators, it is found that labor education in schools for children with intellectual disabilities has been paid more attention to, but its connotation has been simplified to some extent; most teachersconstruct the content of labor education based on curiculum standards and experience; there are many difficulties in the implementation of labor education in intellectual schools, such as students’degree, the lack of joint efforts of family and school, and the lack of proessional guidance of teachers. In the future, we should firstly focus on quality, and comprehensively strengthen the infiltration and cultivation of labor spirit and labor values. Secondly, strengthen the guidance, and improve the scientific and systematic labor education in intellectual schools. Thirdly, optimize and integrate relevant resources, and give full play to the comprehensive elfect of labor education. Finally, enhance cooperation and perfect the path guarantee of labor education in schools for children with intellectual disabilities.

Keywords: "labor education; schools for children with intellectual disabilities; implement"