Cultivation of Labour Values in Schools and Universities in the AI Era: Logic, Problem, and Strategy

Abstract

The artificial intelligence (AI) era has posed a great challenge to the cultivation of labour values in schools and universities, while labour values, whose theoretical logic originates from the dialectical unity relationship between the subject and object of labour, are the core in labour education. Labour values are embodied by labour subjectivity and developed by labour practicality. The research takes the bidirectional relationship between AI and labour education as the theoretical perspective to locate three major problems confronted by labour education: (1) educational administration in schools and universities; (2) separation between technique and morality; (3) binary opposition between mental and manual labour. In this case, labour education in schools and universities should adhere to the proper value orientation of labour education, promote the inter-coordination between labour skills and labour values, and pursue a system that integrates the five education dimensions—morality, intelligence, physique, aesthetics, and labour.