Applying 'Four Together' Principle to minority and Han Students in Undergraduate Innovation and Entrepreneurship Training Program

摘要

Take students major in electrical engineering and automation in Karshgar university for example, this paper introduces the educational practice of applying "Four Together" principle to minority and Han students in undergraduate innovation and entrepreneurship training program. By means of the comparison of the sample group and the control group, this paper analyzes the influences in the belongingness of emotion, culture, mental-trust and behavior-trust by the entrance of undergraduate innovation and entrepreneurship training program. Following conclusions are obtained, students from different cultural background work together as groups in the undergraduate innovation and entrepreneurship training program, as a result, this combination effectively strengthens the communication and understanding of students from different cultural backgrounds, reinforces the peer effects and is extremely helpful in uniting nations thus achieve harmonious society. University period is important to one's life. In this period, both educational and non-educational experiences are crucial to build students' world view and life view, thus influence the development of students' career lives. In this case, the "Four Togethers" principle is suggested: Undergraduates should learn together, play together (including sport events, culture events, party events, and social events), live together (such as having food together, sleeping together, etc.), and grow up together. The "Four Togethers" principle shall work as an invisible "bridge" that links students. In this way, friendly and harmonious campus can be built. The "Four Together" principle is effective because it creates students' belongingness. In this method, teenagers gain deep understand of each other when living together, generate belongingness of living. Also, while communicating, they gain belongingness of emotion, culture, and life value. As a result, for every student, the belongingness builds mental-trust in their minds and behavior-trust in their bodies. Furthermore, the harmony of each nation can be achieved. China lives Han people and minority people. The culture differences (including language, thought and behavior difference) among them should be carefully treated, especially in the autonomous regions where most minorities live, such as Xinjiang, Xizang and Qinghai. For universities in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Han students and minority students, mostly are Uygur students, studied together. To achieve effective communication between minority students and Han students, it is crucial to apply "Four Together" principle. For another concern, to advocate "Four Togethers" principle to teenagers, educational and technical events favored by them should be held. Currently, the "Undergraduate Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship Training Program" is strongly promoted by autonomous region government. This program, on the one hand, aims to motivate students in inventing and entrepreneurships, raising their abilities in both researching and working. On the other hand, the program benefits companies by bringing them well-educated undergraduates. This program can "promote deep educational reformation of colleges in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, and strengthen the practice-based education" 12. Throughout the daily lives of students, this program covers their campus lives and extends to their career times2. In this training, undergraduates are encouraged to work on research topics as groups, and they are also suggested to strengthen their abilities on "self-learning, group-working, organizing, and implementing". In our research, we bring new ideas to this program that guiding both minority and Han students to work together as groups. In this way, they may affect each other with the help of "Four Together" principle. Experts in and out of Xinjiang have worked on the methods to achieve the belongingness between minority students and Han students. Article 4 to 8 consider that their collaboratio