Yanhui Li

The research examines the stages in the formation of the concept of labor training in China, the content and forms of this training in school from the concept of the five inseparable components of education, the basic secondary school curriculum during the Cultural Revolution, and manual training classes under the updated doctrine of education and training to the development of labor education in the implementation of the policy “Education serves the people.” Historiographically and paradigmatically, the idea of labor training is presented in unity with moral education as a systemic component of the educational process, in which manual training classes include labor education and technical education. The authors studied the history of the development of the educational function of manual training classes in China in urban, rural, and small schools.

The authors analyzed the concepts of moral education, labor training, labor activity of schoolchildren, technical education at school, early vocational guidance for schoolchildren, industrialization of education, and the role of the family in the process of labor training. The research presents current data on the availability of manual training teachers, including from the point of view of the growing number of ungraded schools in rural areas and the structure of the content of manual training of schoolchildren.

The authors analyze the formation of the contemporary system of labor education in educational institutions of China, where work is the driver of the development of all other qualities of schoolchildren through the cultivation of morality through work; the intersection of goals of moral, mental, physical, and aesthetic education with the goals and objects of labor education becomes the key content of the concept of comprehensive development of learners.