Labor education for university students is one of the main contents of the all-round development of university students in terms of ethics, intellect, physique, aesthetics and labor, which is of great significance to guide college students to face up to the value of labor, help them to cultivate the labor spirit and promote them to improve their labor literacy. This paper firstly reveals the three major problems of labor education for college students in the new era, namely, weakened value identity, dislocation of resources and lack of practice mechanism. On this basis, the importance of labor education reform for college students in the new era is analyzed. Finally, four major reform paths are proposed, namely, the creation of labor education system, the creation of labor education atmosphere, the construction of labor education ecology, and the improvement of labor education evaluation system. In order to give full play to the comprehensive nurturing value of labor education.

Rui Liu. Realistic problems and reform paths of labor education for college students in the new era. International Journal of New Developments in Education (2023) Vol. 5, Issue 17: 1-5. https://doi.org/10.25236/IJNDE.2023.051701.

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