How to improve public TCM accomplishment

LiuHongYan li lei changchun university of traditional Chinese medicine

Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) is rooted in the Chinese nation profound cultural soil and has a good foundation for the masses. But with western medicine into China, and gradually waver in people's mind was ingrained in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) thought. As a service to the public health medical science, if lost in the public of its development foundation, will be in trouble. Today, the country offers support and promote TCM course development, more attention should be paid in the public of traditional Chinese medicine, this is influence, the foundation of the development of Chinese medicine career long-term.

Cultivate TCM literacy necessary public

Public TCM literacy is part of the public scientific literacy, but the particularity of the subject. TCM is both natural science and humanities attributes of a subject, even though its subject set, but because of its different from modern science and scientific thinking, and scientific methods, such as traditional Chinese medicine and other modern science will be placed in the same research framework to study TCM disciplines, clearly reflect the unique theoretical system characteristics in its totality. Therefore, Chinese medicine literacy research public alone is necessary.

In 2006, our country history first raise the scientific quality progammatic documents "national scientific literacy action plan 2006-2010-2020 years) of outline (officially issued by the state council. The guidelines of "scientific quality first defined," said: "scientific quality is the important component of the civic diathesis. Citizens basic scientific quality usually refers to understand the necessary knowledge of science and technology, master basic scientific method, build up the scientific thought, advocate science spirit, and has certain practical problems, application they handle the ability to engage in public affairs."

Based on the definition of scientific literacy for TCM literacy, can this definition: people to understand and use of Chinese medicine knowledge of Chinese medicine, and social effect of attitude. Specifically, it includes the following aspects: one is the theoretical system of TCM characteristic and philosophical foundation (namely basic point) understood; 2 it is to the understanding of concepts and terminology of traditional Chinese medicine; Three is the social influence of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM and understanding that the social effect of the attitudes).

TCM literacy elements

Literacy elements

Literacy in recent years, Chinese academics are popular. But in some time ago, people more is to use quality one word. Literacy and quality in some ways consistent, but literacy mean greater emphasis on cultivation and breeding, the more stressed by learning the knowledge accumulation, after reach understanding level and practical ability. So look, literacy stressed in dynamic sense to use.

Essentially, literacy firstly embodies in the individual body members of society, on the one hand, members of the society, literacy is part of the personality; On the other hand, literacy is the personal nature of social members external performance. Literacy is not a single thing but a complex structure, can be divided into talent temperament, knowledge accumulation, and cognitive level and application ability level. Talent temperament is based, refers to the accomplishment of individual mental and physical conditions.

Literacy is not innate ability who originally, but indeed and human innate ability has the very big relations. The key to knowledge accumulation is literacy, only had to know the world and transform the world knowledge is possible only with high quality.

Cognitive level is the core of literacy. On the basis of knowledge accumulation, the process is the incarnation of cognitive process. Application ability is oriented, it is the accomplishment of the highest level. Accomplishment On correctly, on the basis of objective things consciously using objective thing to achieve their own a particular purpose is application ability. Literacy as a knowledge accumulation, is something inside, but people can will inner knowledge into ability, and use this ability to transform the world.

Literacy in different period have different content, it is a historical category. For a man's literacy main is acquired, its win literacy by certain specific social practice to historical condition limitations. But constantly improving literacy is the eternal theme.

The elements of TCM literacy

Literacy elements tells us that our quality is based on the knowledge accumulation of elements such as cognitive level structure and application ability of interaction system function structure. Therefore, the public is based on the basic Chinese medicine literacy knowledge accumulation of TCM literacy based on the structure and function of system factor-structure interaction.

The elements of TCM literacy knowledge structure includes: traditional Chinese medicine, Chinese medicine method, Chinese medicine, Chinese medicine spirit thought. TCM literacy function structure including: TCM judgment and traditional Chinese medicine using ability. Traditional Chinese medicine has the basic knowledge of and cognitive level, the more important is the application of traditional Chinese medicine with TCM literacy capability, this is the highest. Application ability includes the basic knowledge of Chinese medicine for judgment, the false medicine basic judge in social events, the basic ideology of Chinese medicine, the judge will directly influence the public judgment of TCM attitude and action plan. The use of traditional Chinese medicine and traditional Chinese medicine is concentrated in the ability of professional personnel, for the general public, but also to the use of traditional Chinese medicine. Traditional Chinese medicine such as using the method of traditional Chinese medicine knowledge of law, practice life health care methods.

The elements of TCM literacy constitute the structure and function of TCM literacy structural elements, this constitutes a structure of human-oriented principle with puropse of literacy, accord with the public the stratified demand.

Raise public TCM literacy

The subject of TCM literacy to improve the public

The government in TCM literacy to improve the public is in a dominant position. The basic task of government jobs for people services, increasing social material civilization and spiritual civilization level. And improve public accomplishment, is to improve society TCM civilization degree of important component. In addition, the TCM literacy to improve the public is a social systems engineering, the whole society should cooperate to complete. The government holds the social public power, can effectively integrate, deployment and use of social resources, act as planners, organizers, executor role.

TCM media is to improve the public the main Chinese medicine literacy. Modern society, media communication plays an important role of information and communication theory in public, have extensive influence, people have used by radio, television, newspaper and Internet media acquire knowledge and information. The popularity of Chinese medicine, Chinese medicine knowledge of natural culture spreading through certain carrier to walk to the public and media is among the main choice.

The public is improving TCM literacy protagonist. The process of TCM literacy to improve the public to public education is the process of implementation of TCM, the public is who receive it. But the public is not simply passive education of Chinese medicine literacy initiative recipients, but the active participants. Therefore, the public is education object, TCM literacy is also improving TCM literacy protagonist.

Improve public way of TCM literacy

School education. School education is the public the main ways of TCM literacy improve. School education is targeting young students. The education of young students is to let them master the knowledge of Chinese medicine, Chinese medicine have a correct understanding of traditional Chinese medicine in treating the problem to form the correct value judgment. Can use open an important means of relevant course. Is For instance in primary and middle school students in Chinese medicine knowledge increase textbooks in extracurricular organization to content, TCM culture education base visit learning; publicity Gender-related courses have TCM among college students in such an introduction of elective courses.

Social education. Students graduate from high school, students into a social person by, it doesn't mean the end of education. Society is implementing the public education of Chinese medicine literacy another important way. If the school education mainly aims at is the young students, then social education mainly aims at is the citizens of the society. In this respect, government agencies, social organizations and media have work to do.

Self education. And the school education and social education education is compared, the ego is a kind of active education is to improve their public TCM literacy and active, positive and hard to learn Chinese medicine knowledge. Self education form rich and colorful, can be, in books as a teacher, or to spread to others, media, with the whole society as the teacher. But because of individualized education itself, its existence defects, the school education, we need to social education and self education combined, composition, realize the integration of TCM literacy target to improve the public.

Traditional Chinese medicine, as a special kind of scientific paradigm, have natural science and humanities attributes. Therefore, Chinese medicine literacy problems and public public scientific literacy, public humanities quality problems have very big different, need to medicine discipline itself based on the analysis and discussion.

It is beneficial to the development of Chinese medicine literacy research public Chinese medicine academic, popularize knowledge of traditional Chinese medicine, promote the whole society to understand Chinese medicine to human health irreplaceable role in helping people change medicine concept, meet new medical model, thus enabling more people, especially in natural science work of high culture, high intellectuals re-know TCM this special scientific paradigm, drive the whole society more in-depth understanding of TCM scientific. This will be a very meaningful work.