College Students' Legal Consciousness 1 Contemporary College Students' Legal Consciousness
Governing the country according to law is an important part of building socialist political civilization and developing socialist democracy, and it is also the basic strategy of China's * * * production party leading the people to govern the country. Its effective implementation is based on the high legal awareness of all citizens. College students are the future and hope of the motherland and play an important role in the process of building a socialist country ruled by law. Therefore, it is of great significance to fully understand the current situation and reasons of college students' legal consciousness and put forward practical countermeasures on this basis.
Keywords: college students' legal consciousness, current situation, causes and countermeasures
What is legal consciousness? The sum of people's legal views and legal feelings, including their views on the essence and function of law, their requirements and attitudes towards the current law, their evaluation and interpretation of the law, their understanding of their rights and obligations, their evaluation of the legality of a certain act, their understanding of legal phenomena and their legal concepts. 1 is a very important subject in the construction of modern legal system.
First, the status quo of college students' legal awareness
(A) College students' legal awareness has gradually increased.
With the vigorous development of law popularization activities in China and the continuous development of legal education in schools, college students' legal knowledge and awareness have been generally improved, and their usage, law-abiding and law-abiding behaviors have also increased significantly. When their rights and interests are violated, more and more college students can use legal weapons to protect themselves. Many surveys show that taking legal channels is an effective way to solve disputes.
(B) the problems of college students' legal consciousness
1, lack of basic legal knowledge and low level of legal knowledge.
At present, in our country, the legal education for non-law majors except law majors is mainly based on the public course "Ideological and Moral Cultivation and Legal Basis", which gives students a basic framework understanding of the legal system and its construction to a certain extent. However, due to the limited legal knowledge involved, the actual effect of the course is not very ideal, and students often stay at the perceptual level of the legal system and legal system construction, but cannot rise to the rational level.
2, knowing and doing are out of touch, which is lighter than law-abiding usage.
In China, colleges and universities offer the course "Ideological and Moral Cultivation and Legal Basis", and many schools also offer elective courses of legal content, so students can learn some legal knowledge through teachers' lectures. However, in real life, it often happens that people don't know what they are doing, but they know the law but don't obey it. When encountering contradictions or problems, they often take drastic actions, sometimes even illegal actions, because they are overheated and lose their minds, which will eventually lead to serious consequences.
3. The phenomenon of college students committing crimes is increasing.
Where are you? Ivory tower? Some students' lives are not as peaceful and peaceful as the society imagined. In recent years, the illegal and criminal behavior of college students in China has shown an obvious upward trend, and the types of crimes are also developing towards intelligence and diversification. From 2002? Bear injury incident? Arrive? Ma Jiajue? Case, and then to 20 10? Li Gang? Cases and? Yao Jiaxin? Case, so that the problem of college students' crime has become the focus of attention, and the underlying reasons behind these are more worthy of attention and in-depth thinking.
Second, the reasons for the lack of legal awareness of college students
(1) school reasons. For a long time, schools have not paid enough attention to legal education. Most of them only give students a simple basic education through the course of Ideological and Moral Cultivation and Legal Basis, and pay more attention to instilling legal knowledge. They lack heuristic teaching and practical teaching to give full play to students' subjective initiative, and the evaluation of students stays on the test scores. In addition, because many teachers are mostly law students? Becoming a monk halfway? Lack of systematic and professional knowledge has a certain impact on students' educational achievements.
(2) Family reasons. Family plays an important role in the education of college students. However, due to various reasons, parents' legal awareness is generally not strong, they have doubts about the fairness and effectiveness of the law, and they are used to relying on mass movements to solve problems encountered in national and social life. At the same time, parents often only attach importance to intellectual education and neglect healthy personality education, especially the cultivation and education of legal consciousness, which makes students unable to develop and grow healthily and in a balanced way.
(3) Social reasons. China is a country with a feudal social history of more than two thousand years. The traditional cultural concepts of self-sufficient small-scale peasant economy, highly centralized monarchy, harmony between man and nature, and non-struggle with others and the world still exist in social concepts, which affect the formation, consolidation and strengthening of college students' legal consciousness. At the same time, since the reform and opening up, China's legislative achievements and shortcomings have coexisted, legal gaps, frictions and conflicts within the legal system, lack of feasibility of legal norms, frequent judicial intervention and judicial corruption have made people question the fairness of legal effect.
Third, the countermeasures to cultivate college students' legal awareness
Ingels once said: No matter how perfect the modern system and organizational principles are, they will become a pile of waste paper or lead to abnormal development without the social foundation for their operation and the present psychological foundation for their real life. ? 1
(1) Optimize the social legal environment. Creating a good atmosphere of social rule of law is an important external condition for cultivating college students' legal awareness. The society should strengthen legislation, improve the quality of legislation, establish legal authority, and make citizens have a sense of belief and dependence on the law in knowledge and emotion; State organs and their staff should strictly abide by the law, administer justice fairly, play an exemplary role and realize equality before the law; Mass media reports should always adhere to objectivity. Fair, timely and accurate principles, and can use their own advantages to strengthen the publicity and education of the rule of law, and strive to create a good social environment for learning, knowing and abiding by the law.
(2) Give full play to the role of school education as the main channel and front. To actively build? Governing the school according to law? The atmosphere, the management of students should always adhere to equality, all procedures should be open, fair and just, and the practice of law will affect the cultivation of college students' legal awareness. We should give full play to the role of classroom teaching in cultivating students' legal consciousness, closely combine ideological and political education with legal education, improve the classroom teaching and teaching content of basic legal courses, give full play to the role of new media in shaping students' legal consciousness, help students establish a correct world outlook, outlook on life and values, improve their self-management and restraint ability, and consciously resist all kinds of wrong ideas and illegal acts.
(3) Pay attention to and improve family education. Family plays an important role in the formation of college students' legal consciousness. It is necessary to enhance parents' legal awareness through various channels, set an example, strengthen their self-cultivation, positively educate college students, influence children with their own examples, and subtly educate children with legal concepts and consciousness.
In a word, China is in an opportunity period of development. It is necessary to establish an educational model integrating society, school and family, make full use of the effective resources of society, give full play to the role of school education, attach great importance to the power of family education, and help college students cultivate and improve their legal awareness in many ways.
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On how to cultivate college students' legal consciousness.
Abstract: College students are the pillars of the motherland in the future. Strengthening the cultivation of college students' legal consciousness is of great significance for promoting the construction of socialist legal system. As the main environment for the growth of college students, colleges and universities are endowed with unique advantages and shoulder the heavy responsibility of cultivating college students' legal awareness. This paper puts forward some suggestions on how to cultivate college students' legal consciousness.
Keywords: the cultivation of college students' legal awareness
College students are valuable human resources and shoulder the task of the future modernization of the motherland. However, because most people go to school since childhood and have little contact with the society, under the exam-oriented education, students and parents only pay attention to grades, ignore quality education and lack legal knowledge, which leads some college students to enter colleges and universities with excellent grades, but many people know nothing about the law, and some are even ignorant. Therefore, as a teaching institution of higher learning, the leading cultivation and rapid promotion of college students' legal literacy and legal awareness is their participation in the process of social modernization and shaping. Modern talents? An unshirkable responsibility.
1 Give full play to the role of basic legal knowledge education in schools.
Sound legal consciousness must be based on certain legal knowledge. Classroom teaching has always been the foundation of school education, and it is also the main channel for colleges and universities to spread legal knowledge to college students. Students can receive a lot of legal knowledge in a short time through the teacher's lectures. Therefore, it is particularly important to play the role of basic legal courses in cultivating college students' legal awareness.
1. 1 Understand the content of the Constitution and establish its authority.
Let students know that the constitution occupies the highest position in our legal system. State power must come from the explicit provisions of the Constitution and laws and must be exercised within the scope of the Constitution and laws. Citizens' obligations must also come from the setting of the Constitution and laws. No administrative organ, social organization or individual may force others to perform obligations beyond the statutory scope. To build a socialist country ruled by law, we must establish the supremacy of the constitution in all important fields such as national life and social life.
1.2 arouse students' enthusiasm and inspire them to think positively.
To make students become the main body of the course, teachers should ask questions, encourage students to think actively, use their brains and express their views through analysis; Teachers and students can also seek common ground while reserving differences through discussion and debate, so that students' knowledge will be more solid and in-depth.
1.3 adhere to the principle of integrating theory with practice and applying what you have learned.
The teaching of basic legal courses should not only be linked with social reality, but also with the ideological reality of contemporary college students. For example, in the mock trial, the roles of judge, lawyer, litigant, bailiff, clerk and bystander are all played by students, so that students can observe the majesty of the court, respect judges, litigation procedures and other practical knowledge in their personal participation; Encourage more students to participate in case analysis, identify, select and produce the best scheme from various schemes, make the case analysis in class more in-depth and practical, and realize the positive effects of college students learning the law in practice, experiencing the law in the scene and knowing the usage in reality [1].
2. Create a good legal and cultural atmosphere
2. 1 Create a law-abiding environment for students.
What principles should colleges and universities adhere to? Governing the school according to law? From the beginning, everything should be done according to the rules and regulations, and the rights of students should be effectively protected. All rules and regulations should be reflected? Everyone is equal before the law? The spirit of the rule of law, especially in the issues of students' moral, intellectual and physical quantitative assessment, reward, financial aid for poor students, and selection of student cadres, etc., the school must act according to regulations and seriously deal with violations of law and discipline regardless of individuals. It exerts a subtle influence on the formation and improvement of college students' modern legal consciousness [2].
2.2 for college students to create a strong atmosphere of the rule of law
Colleges and universities should actively carry out special lectures and reports on legal knowledge education at different levels, regularly invite experts and scholars to the school to publicize legal knowledge for students, and convey the latest legal information to students in time, so that students can increase their legal knowledge, establish legal views and strengthen their legal concepts in the process, thus improving their legal awareness and forming an atmosphere of learning, obeying the law and using in the university campus.
In addition, flexible campus legal and cultural activities can greatly stimulate students' enthusiasm and interest in learning law. For example, organize some legal speeches, debates and knowledge contests with distinct themes, so that students can improve their understanding of the law while competing; Organize students to watch legal programs, and promote the formation of college students' modern legal consciousness by watching typical cases.
3. Actively carry out mental health education.
College students are in their youth, both physically and psychologically mature but not yet mature. They are emotional, psychologically volatile, impulsive and have poor self-control. They are eager to go to society, not to society; They lack social experience and life experience, but the society is complicated. Therefore, without correct guidance, college students can easily go astray and even embark on the road of crime [3].
Facing the characteristics of college students' physical and mental development, colleges and universities should strengthen their psychological health education and guide the healthy development of their personality. First, timely understand the mental health status of college students, do a good job in freshmen's psychological test, establish and scientifically use college students' mental health files, and improve the early warning mechanism of college students' mental health crisis; Second, cultivate healthy personality, let students master the basic methods of psychological adjustment, reduce psychological burden through appropriate ways, cultivate strong willpower, stable mood and optimistic and enterprising spirit, and resolutely resist all kinds of bad atmosphere, so as to improve college students' legal awareness, strengthen their legal concept, safeguard their legitimate rights and interests, and prevent and reduce the occurrence of tragedies; Thirdly, through targeted lectures and psychological counseling services, let college students know the basic knowledge of mental health, guide and correct students with psychological problems in time, always care for them, do a good job in their mental health services, and help them form a healthy and upward psychology.
4. Strengthen the self-protection education of college students' labor rights and interests
At present, more and more college students take part-time jobs in their spare time, which can improve their social practice ability and add weight to their employment after graduation. Secondly, you can get some living expenses and reduce the burden on your family. However, some illegal intermediaries and employers in society take advantage of the characteristics of college students' eagerness to take part-time jobs, lack of social experience and lack of self-protection and awareness of rights protection to defraud college students of money, and even cause harm to college students from time to time.
In view of the above situation, on the one hand, colleges and universities should let students know more about legal knowledge closely related to their own rights and interests, carefully study labor law, civil law, contract law and other relevant laws and regulations before looking for a job, keep a clear head in the face of the complicated job market, improve their self-protection ability and prevent being cheated. On the other hand, do more? College students' job hunting and employment rights protection? Lectures, through lectures, enable college students to understand the law, know what kind of labor rights they should enjoy in the process of job hunting, and what legal channels can be used to safeguard their legitimate rights and interests when their rights are violated, and also prepare for safeguarding their legitimate rights and interests in the highly competitive workplace in the future [4].
Cultivating college students' legal awareness is an important way to help and guide young students to establish a correct outlook on life and values, and it is also the content that educators should attach great importance to. Therefore, colleges and universities should persistently cultivate college students' legal consciousness in the whole university education.
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