On Ideological and Political Education in Vocational Technical Institutes in the Perspective of Need Theory

Need Theory enables our ideological and political education to be specific,predictable and effective.Currently,in our ideological and political theory education a contradiction really exists: Objectively,our students have a strong demand for ideological and political theory education but,subjectively,they take a negative attitude about it,which they treat as something useless.Many factors have contributed to such a contradiction.For instance,the students are confronted with so great a pressure of employment that they have to seek for material gains in their study.The content of our ideological and political theory education fails to be targeted and lacks of a sense of contemporaneity.Moreover,our current teaching manner is obsolete and short of artistic features.Therefore,in order to improve the ideological and political theory education in vocational technical institutes it is suggested that students' traits be studied to learn what they really need;the educational content be optimized and the teaching manner be innovated to meet student's reasonable needs;a suitable evaluation system for students be constructed to guide their needs;and the current educational channel be further widened to build a multi-faceted educational system that consists of classroom,campus and society,and improve students' need for the ideological and political theory education.