提高民族地区高校学生的创新精神,优先讲授前沿基础课程

Instructions of Cutting-edge Foundation Courses for the Innovation Spirit of Undergraduates in Interethnic Areas

两年前,为提高民族地区大学生的教学水平和创新精神,贵州民族大学认知科学与民族文化发展学院实施了名师进课堂,加强基础课教学的举措。生理心理学课是其中之一,文章概括了该课堂教学中的三点体会。首先,将基本理论概念尽可能与现实生活联系起来,有利于这些概念的理解。文中例举了中枢神经系统、神经再生、精神疾病、成瘾、关键期和右脑开发等理论概念的现实意义,给学生一种神奇和新颖之感,激发了学生的兴趣和学习热情。其次,在课堂上强调科学发展史观,使学生认识到创新精神是科学发展的源泉。一百多年来,科学技术的进步对人脑功能系统的认识不断扩展。最后使学生知晓,人脑功能系统研究的新成果,正在推动着人类学和民族学的发展,初见端倪的认知民族学和认知人类学正在成为前沿领域。总之,引导学生从现实、历史和未来三个视野,学习这门难度较大的基础课,有利于创新精神的培养。

Two years ago School of Cognitive Science and Ethnic Culture of Guizhou Minzu University started a program of“Getting Famous Teachers into Classrooms”for the purpose of improving the teaching quality and innovation spirit of undergraduates in interethnic areas,and accordingly some measures have been taken as to foundation course teaching.Physiological Psychology is one of these courses.Here,I’d like to summarize the teaching experience in three aspects.First,basic theoretical notions are integrated with reality as much as possible so that the former could be better understood.Such notions as central nervous system,neural regeneration,mental sickness,addiction,critical period and right-brain development are of theoretical and practical significance,appealing to students’curiosity.Second,the notion of scientific development history is emphasized in class,making students realize that innovation spirit is a source of scientific development.For over a century scientific progress has promoted the understanding of human brain function system.Finally,students must know the new achievements of research on human brain function system and their implications for the sciences of anthropology and ethnology.In this way,cognitive ethnology and cognitive anthropology are perceived to be cutting-edge fields.In conclusion,the undergraduates should be guided in terms of reality,history and future so as to grasp the difficult course,i.e.Physiological Psychology,and nurture a spirit of innovation.