The Era Implication and Cultivation Path of Professional Literacy Under the Strategy for Developing China's Strength in Education
Professional literacy is the foundation of individual development and career establishment,which can be considered as the"useless soft skills of great use".It is the primary source of career suc-cess,not only as an essential factor affecting the employment quality of students from vocational schools and colleges but also as a professional standard of employees'competence.It determines individ-uals'career development and height of life and constitutes enterprises'core competitiveness beyond knowledge and technology.With technological progress and industrial upgrading,while the require-ments for workers'physical fitness,knowledge and skills have been reduced,the requirements for their professional literacy have been continuously improved.Skill transformation promotes lifelong learning for workers.It is also a long-time tradition to highlight worker's literacy,as exemplified in the tradi-tional saying of"being a man before doing things"and the modern society emphasizing"professional lit-eracy affects lifetime achievements".However,vocational schools still emphasize skills over literacy,which contradicts the development trend.To this end,vocational education should shift its emphasis from"specialized skills"to comprehensive competence and the ability to take action,improve students'comprehensive competence while inheriting the"craftsman spirit",and make professional literacy es-sential in training skilled workers.To facilitate such development,it is necessary to initiate systematic reform of secondary and post-secondary vocational and technical education,update teaching content to keep pace with the requirements of career development,integrate industry regulations and corporate culture to facilitate effective communication between school life and labor market,integrate the cultiva-tion of professional literacy and skill learning to enhance students'understanding and internalizing pro-fessional spirits,so as so to equip students in vocational schools with good professional literacy and help them become high-quality skilled talents.
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