Original Title: Military Camp Observation | From School History Scenarios to Characteristic Ideological and Political Courses

From school history sitcoms to characteristic ideological and political courses

Yang Jun, Zhang Bohao

"Our artillery grew up in the battle..." Not long ago, on the sergeant square of the non commissioned officer school of the Army Artillery Air Defense Academy, a school history sitcom "Strive to be the Descendant of Yan'an", which was compiled, directed and acted by teachers and students of the school, kicked off.

On the stage, students played the roles of teachers and students in Yan'an Gun School. The touching pictures show the glorious image of the ancestors, and the loud slogans are exciting... The magnificent dance effect and the performance of the actors are moving every student watching.

At the end of the performance, trainee Xu Xin sang the school song "Artillery March" of Yan'an Gun School, which attracted applause from the audience with its rich voice and affectionate interpretation.

After the curtain call, comrades in arms crowded around Xu Xin to praise him.

At the beginning of this year, the school's "Glorious History of Yan'an Artillery School" course team prepared this scenario. When they entered the student team to audition for the scenario actors, Xu Xin, who is good at vocal music, stood at the end of the team and listened carefully to the teacher's introduction.

"Our students come from different units, including some famous heroic troops. But speaking of artillery, air defense and tank troops, and even the first engineering school, they are all inherited from the same military school - Yan'an Artillery School..."

Teacher Wang Hao finished telling the legendary story of Yan'an Gun School running schools and planting fire, and then said: "Take the well-known 'Gongchen' tank, which was found by teachers and students of Yan'an Gun School after marching into the northeast. After many adjustments and adaptations, this tank used to serve as a troop, and is now the successor of the 'Red First Division'."

Listen, Xu Xin's pride in the school arises spontaneously. He took the initiative to find a teacher and apply to join the creation.

"According to the characteristics of the wide source of military sergeant students and rich fine traditions, we seize the genetic connection of the" original seed "of Yan'an Gun School, take the school history as a fresh teaching material to carry out ideological and political education, and let the students' thoughts bear the red brand of Yan'an Gun School through immersion class." The school leader introduced.

Entering the class of "Glorious History of Yan'an Artillery School", students will have new discoveries.

In the practical teaching link of the theme "A letter to a hero", students talk with historical figures through words; In the red cultural garden, beside the sculpture modeled by the mortar used by Zhao Zhangcheng, the small class discussion organized by the student teaching assistant was active; Veterans of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea went into the ideological and political classroom to tell battle stories and pass on their spiritual wealth face to face.

History is the best teacher. Not long ago, on behalf of the joint teaching and training students, Xu Xin competed with officers and soldiers of an artillery brigade at a training ground. After the martial arts contest, he introduced the history of Yan'an Artillery School, and the seeds of red gene had quietly taken root in his heart.

Frontline survey | "fuel effect" of a history course

Zhang Bohao, Shi Wenting, Zhou Shiyu

Students from the NCO School of the Army Artillery Air Defense Academy made graduation reports in the school history museum. Ban Jingcheng

"Old President Zhu Rui! As the successor of Yan'an Cannon School, we should like you to devote our youth to the artillery cause!"

Every year in the graduation season, the graduates of the NCO School of the Army Artillery Air Defense Academy will come to the school history museum to make a graduation report to the statue of Zhu Rui and report their growth feelings during school.

When new students enter the school, the first lesson is school history. The teacher told all the freshmen about the glorious history of the school and started the course of "Glorious History of Yan'an Artillery School".

"August 1, 1945 is a memorable day for Yan'an Artillery School. This day is not only the 18th anniversary of the founding of the People's Army under the leadership of the Communist Party of China, but also the day when Yan'an Artillery School held a grand opening ceremony."

Time flows, new and old. Successive students can understand the original intention in this characteristic ideological and political course, and continue to write glory.

Rooting

Deeply study the red history, and go to the classroom affectionately

These days, the school history square is full of flowers and books.

The newly enrolled directional training sergeant students lined up neatly, passed through the gate of the original site of the Yan'an Artillery School, which was restored one by one, and sat around a piece of green gray stone sculpture in the center of the square, with their eyes fixed on Professor Liu Wei.

"In December 1944, the predecessor of our school, Yan'an Artillery School, recruited students from the Shaanxi Gansu Ningxia Border Region, the General School of the Anti Japanese University, the artillery regiment of the Eighth Route Army headquarters and other units, and quickly set off an upsurge of enrollment, with nearly 1000 students enrolled in the first phase."

Professor Liu took the large-scale narrative poem "We Are Coming from Yan'an" on the sculpture as the starting point, combined with the characteristics of the new students' admission thoughts, and gave a targeted and influential school history ideological and political course.

During the break discussion, the students expressed that it was a great honor to enter the school, and they were full of expectations for the following learning and training.

The time pointer goes back to three years ago.

"I often listen to the school history, but I always feel that it is far away from me and has little to do with me."

"Over the years, the school has carried out many educational activities relying on the school history museum and the 'six games and seven parks' red cultural garden, but they all fought independently and failed to form a joint force..."

In the conference room of the Party Committee, at the symposium on deepening the study and education of the Party history and military history, the teachers and student representatives threw several questions in succession, which caused a group of people in the Party Committee to ponder.

"It is true that the historical facts are superficial and the red resources are not well coordinated, and the education is not systematic, in-depth, and unscientific. It is suggested that a new course should be built to focus on the school history, so as to systematically enhance the students' historical identity, emotional identity, and job identity of the school, artillery and air defense arms." Liu Wei's speech was recognized by everyone.

After a period of repeated discussion, the characteristic course "Glorious History of Yan'an Artillery School" was included in the key construction project of school teaching. The curriculum preparation work falls on the shoulders of the Military Political Work Teaching and Research Office.

"How can we teach this course well? Historical records and materials alone are not enough." When the teaching team professor Yang Jinggang received the task, he suggested that everyone must go to the site of Yan'an Artillery School to have a look.

Just as the school organized some teachers to carry out root searching and learning activities in Yan'an, Yang Jing took the initiative to sign up and lead the team to participate.

"Look, the loess plateau!" A passenger's words suddenly interrupted Yang Jing's thoughts. Looking out of the porthole, she saw thousands of ravines, which shocked her soul.

"With the towering pagoda mountain and the endless river, I finally came to Yan'an." Before setting foot on this land, the profound history of the revolutionary holy land in the impression came into Yang Jing's mind.

When Yang Jing walked into the gate of the former site of Yan'an Artillery School in Taobaoyu Village, Nanniwan, a huge sense of contrast came to her face.

Loess rock, under the cliff. The sun shines through the tall cypress trees, and the shadow strikes a row of inconspicuous caves, where is the student dormitory of Yan'an Artillery School. There are several old guns standing around the small playground. Only the red brick auditorium on the second floor is striking.

"With an area of less than 400 mu, a small area of water and soil built along the mountain has gone out of the artillery force known as the 'God of War', and has emerged such artillery talents as Guo Huaruo, Zhu Rui, Kuang Yumin, etc." Standing on the earthen platform when Comrade Zhu De announced the establishment of Yan'an Gun School, Yang Jing was filled with emotion.

In retrospect, rational knowledge has been sublimated in front of perceptual identity. The words on the books become bricks, tiles, plants and trees. The words "hard work and plain living" can be vaguely seen on the mottled wall. At that time, the president's office could only put down one table and one chair, the gun model made of wood, the inclinometer made of old syringes, the steering wheel made of birch bark... The pioneering hard work of the seniors of Yan'an Gun School can only touch the soul when they are in the scene.

After a week of research, Yang Jing returned to the school with a full harvest and devoted herself to the compilation of curriculum and textbooks. At the same time, she also acted as the keynote speaker, recording the video of "We Are Coming from Yan'an Gun School", telling all the officers and soldiers about what we saw in Yan'an through video materials.

In the same year, the school's Red Gene Inheritance Education Base was listed in Nanniwan Development Zone. Over the years, the school has organized the ideological and political course teachers to carry out collective lesson preparation and local research activities in Yan'an in batches, taking the form of combining online and offline, in class and extracurricular, in school and out of school, so that all teachers of the course can be baptized and go to the classroom with deep feelings.

Rooting

Practice with mission and honor

"Make good use of the salt of ideological and political education, and do a good job of curriculum cuisine. How to make the curriculum ideological and political education and ideological and political education curriculum work together, so that professional knowledge learning can play a greater role in educating people?"

In the lesson preparation room, Gao Xinsheng, a professor of the teaching team of the Glorious History of Yan'an Artillery School, had a heated discussion with the teachers of a certain teaching and research section of the artillery. Some practices of "lazy thinking about politics" and "hard thinking about politics" were pointed out one by one.

Military and political work, two teaching and research sections, prepare a lesson in total.

Two years ago, the school found in a process of teaching and learning evaluation that professional teachers are prone to form inertial thinking when they face the same teaching object for a long time. The "old" curriculum ideological and political model tends to weaken students' sense of freshness and make no obvious learning effect.

"We should not only teach professional knowledge, but also let students know why they learn. We should establish the concept of sharing educational resources, integrate the fine traditions of Yan'an Gun School with military teaching, and learn from each other." After studying, the school party committee decided to explore a new model of joint preparation of ideological and political courses and professional courses.

"In December 1950, the Yan'an Gun School received the task of training the cadres of the refitted troops. They overcame the extremely cold weather, trained a total of 4839 people, and trained a large number of artillery talents for the Korean War" "Kuang Yumin, the eldest son of the vice principal of the Yan'an Gun School, resolutely threw himself into the Korean battlefield and died under the enemy's shells", The students were attracted by Mu Chenying, a professional artillery instructor.

"Why was it so cold that winter? How did this cold wave develop?" The teacher's subsequent questions enlivened the classroom atmosphere.

Under the advice of the ideological and political instructors, Mu Chenying combined with the school history to introduce the professional knowledge of Weather Analysis and Early Warning Guarantee from the influence of the cold wave weather development process on the battlefield in the hit film Changjin Lake.

In early summer, the hinterland of the Central Plains. A graduation examination of artillery and air defense forces with dual arms integration started.

"In order to prevent the gun body from jumping, he sat on the gun with a gunner, holding the wheel with both hands while commanding. He ignored the enemy's bullets hitting the shield plate. In the end, he blew up the enemy's turret with only two shells." Teacher Fu Kai used the story of Zhang Yingwang, the first student of Yan'an Gun School and the national combat hero, as the opening speech of battlefield propaganda and encouragement, to stimulate the morale of the students.

Not long after, the guns were rumbling and smoke filled the battlefield. The trainees were organized according to their combat posts, completed several courses such as fire support coordination, fast seizing and controlling key points, and went to the battle position with a glorious mission after being polished and trained in an examination field similar to actual combat.

"Relying on the opportunities of resident training, drill, assessment and so on, the school uses the winning force contained in the red gene of the unit to nourish the whole process of learning and growth of students, so that students can practice with mission and honor," said the school leader.

The "handshake" between a characteristic ideological and political course and a professional course has realized a win-win situation in teaching.

In recent years, Stories of Yan'an Artillery School has become a necessary book for every professional teacher. The training policies and slogans put forward by Yan'an Gun School, such as "turning schools into troops and using troops as schools", "people are not idle with guns" and "model soldiers come with guns", have been inherited and carried forward in the teaching of professional courses. The outdoor classroom, interspersed with wartime political work such as organizing pre war mobilization, joining the Party on the front line, and psychological protection, has become the teaching feature of the ideological and political course in the school. The glory of the Yan'an Gun Academy has always accompanied the officers and soldiers.

Not long ago, in the new round of evaluation of teaching and learning, the students' praise rate of teachers' teaching rose significantly, and the enthusiasm for intensive technology research and military camp achievements increased day by day.

Take root

Let the red gene continue and be passed on through blood

"Five topics, let me talk about the last one?"

Zhang Chi was surprised when he just got the teaching plan. As the youngest civilian teacher in the teaching team, the "final appearance" has brought her a lot of pressure.

Confused, Zhang Chi found Gao Junyi, the director of the teaching and research section.

"The fifth topic is to clarify the internal relationship between the red gene and the school running idea of Yan'an Gun School, and summarize the fine tradition of Yan'an Gun School. In the past, experienced experts and professors were responsible for it. I'm afraid I can't explain it well this time."

Looking at the timid relaxation, Director Gao said: "This is a deliberate arrangement. I hope you can have your own feelings and gains in the course of preparing lessons. The old teachers have paved the way, and you need to go to a new height."

Zhang Chi is suddenly cheerful and energetic. Whenever she was free, she would plunge into the office to study the school history, and every person and event was familiar to her heart. Historical documentaries, movies and TV plays are the "protagonists" of her leisure time, and the excellent teaching videos of ideological and political courses are the "treasure trove" of her repeated research. Standing on the shoulder of the elder, Zhang Chi dared not slack off.

"It was an age of change, and thousands of students braved all the way..." The song "We Are Coming from Yan'an", which was composed by Zhang Chi, was a song to be taught at the end of the course, and also a small climax in the course. On the platform, she was generous and gave vivid explanations. She won many awards in the teaching contest for political theory teachers organized by the higher authorities and was rated as an excellent teacher by the school.

Zhang Chi used a teaching method close to young officers and soldiers to infiltrate the excellent tradition of Yan'an Gun School into the hearts of students, and draw a satisfactory end to the course.

Inheritance is like wind, which can span mountains and seas.

In the middle of winter, on the plateau of more than 4300 meters above sea level, a live firing test of multiple firearms was conducted.

"Watch out, gunner! The impact point deviates 30 mils to the left."

The biting cold wind hit, and Chen Peng, the gunner, received the command from the commander, quickly re ranging, correcting, and locking.

With a "boom", smoke rose from the target on the mountain back in the distance.

Chen Peng, a 2022 graduate student of the school, returned to a plateau drill field of the original army to report for duty as soon as he graduated, and became a technical backbone.

"People should overcome the impact of plateau on physiological function, and weapons and equipment should also overcome 'plateau disease'. Bad weather, such as low temperature, low pressure, strong wind and sand dust, is a whetstone to test combat effectiveness." When it comes to equipment training, Chen Peng speaks frankly.

"'Learn what you need in war, and start from what you need according to the actual situation.' This is the training policy put forward by Guo Huaruo, the first president of Yan'an Artillery School. It is not outdated now. Our unit is the unit where Zhao Zhangcheng, the 'magic artillery player', lived. At the same time, he is also a mortar instructor of Yan'an Artillery School. During my study in school, I was deeply impressed by Zhao Zhangcheng's battle stories, such as chili shells, wall to wall shooting, mortar flat firing, etc. "Chen Peng's words at the stage of review inspired the officers and soldiers on the scene.

In the plank house under the starry sky, a discussion about inheritance and development continues to heat up. The red firewood of Yan'an Artillery School is becoming more and more popular among the young generation.

Sharp point | Make good use of red resources to continue red blood

Ge Jianguo

President Xi attaches great importance to the use of red resources to cultivate morality, and repeatedly exhorts us to "make good use of red resources, carry forward red traditions, and inherit red genes".

History is the best teacher. Red resources are the witness of our party's arduous and brilliant struggle, the most precious spiritual wealth, and contain rich educational materials and values. "Teaching without words is invisible and successful." Emphasis is placed on building red education positions based on site resources, innovating red education methods according to the situation, and improving the effect of red education in combination with the scene, which will help students inherit the red gene and strive to be loyal and reliable successors in the sense of the original perseverance, the beauty of belief, and the heroic spirit of revolutionary predecessors.

As the cradle of military personnel training, military academies shoulder the lofty mission of building morality and educating people for war. They must continue to deeply inherit the red gene, solve the fundamental problem of "who to train people for", and ensure that the people's army is handed down from generation to generation and its blood line is sustainable.

"When we look back at our hometown, ask about our original intention, and recall the starting point of life, our hearts are often like the sea. In its depths, there are many pearls." Water is active, so it flows endlessly; Wood has roots, so it is not poor. Only by perceiving the red gene from history can we be pure and polish the background. For this reason, we should strengthen the overall view, fully recognize that the red gene is the concentrated embodiment of the nature and purpose of the Party, the spiritual condensation of the original mission of the Party, and the true portrayal of the heroic spirit of the military. Carry forward the tradition, regard inheriting the red gene as the political project and the party committee project of the school construction and management, inherit and carry forward the school running tradition of the Jinggangshan Military Training Team, the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army School, and the Anti Japanese Military and Political University, tap the potential source, and learn from history. Stand firmly in the main position, face the complexity and severity of the struggle in the ideological field, and have the courage to fight against all "political genetically modified" phenomena.

"Tradition is not to hold the ashes, but to pass the flame of enthusiasm." The epochal nature of education is determined by the characteristics of the times. Red genes come from history and go to the future. If you want to deal with the affairs of the world, try the situation of the world first. If we do not keep up with the development of the times and endow them with the connotation of the times, we cannot make them more effective and powerful. We should anchor the goal orientation, closely focus on "never changing color" and "there will be successors", promote school running and management and red gene inheritance in an integrated way, and always and everywhere reflect the great power of loyalty to the party, ideals and beliefs, reform and innovation, fighting spirit, revolutionary discipline, and military civilian unity. Integrate the elements of the times, and incorporate the living examples of root, soul and flesh in the practice of war preparation in the new era into the "red resource pool", so that officers and soldiers can see that the red gene is passed on at the moment and around them. Strengthen practice and polish, and pass on the red gene throughout the whole process of college construction in all fields. Whether it is fighting for teaching, scientific research, or scientific management, comprehensive support, it is necessary to inject the purity and simplicity of the red gene, and drive officers and soldiers to fight in the task.

Marx has a famous saying: "People demand new things - both form and content are new." Form is the coat of content. The charm of innovative form is that it can always decorate the sky with fireworks of different colors. To "use" red resources, we must first "live" their form. Red gene is the spiritual core of college education and teaching. Only by closely following the pulse of thought and innovating the way of inheritance, can red gene be integrated into the blood of students. We should create a red classroom, embed the red gene into the top-level design of talent training, integrate it into the curriculum syllabus, learn the required course of Party history and military history, simultaneously strengthen the ideological and political curriculum and the ideological and political construction of the curriculum, and strive to create a red boutique curriculum. Build red culture, organically integrate red culture, fighting culture and college characteristic culture, set up red environment with military history gallery and school history museum as the main body, and carry out red activities with sports clubs and "six small positions" as the carrier to form an atmosphere of red culture education. We should make good use of red resources, adhere to the combination of "going out" and "bringing in", rely on resident resources to build a red education practice base, regularly invite veterans and model officers and soldiers to the student classroom, and guide students to actively participate in the great practice of building a strong country and a strong military.