The Applications of Advanced Technologies in Dispelling Students Doubts’ about Their Majors

In China, many college students don’t know their majors well during choosing them after their successful college entrance examinations. When they go into the college and begin their specialty learning, they are often puzzled by a series of doubts about their discipline knowledge. How to help them to dispel those doubts is very important for them to become senior professional talents in the future. In this paper, an approach is put forward as an alternative method for eliminating the college students’ learning doubts about their major. Based on two advanced technologies (electrospinning and electrospraying), some positive teaching materials are refined to dispel the students’ doubts and meanwhile increasing their interests about the professional knowledge for those majoring in the specialty of Material Science and Engineering. The strategies exhibited here should be similarly useful for college students majoring in other disciplines. Keywords—professional knowledge; learning doubts; advanced technology; undergraduate students I. THREE REALMS OF PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE LEARNING Qingyuan Xingsi (Jingju monk), a master of Zen in Song Dynasty, put forward the three realms of Zen meditation: the first realm is "To see mountain is mountain, to see water is water"; the second realm is To see mountain is not mountain, to see water is not water"; and the third realm is "To see mountain is still the mountain, to see water is still the water". These three realms reflect the three realms of life, and the study of professional knowledge. The first realm in professional learning "to see mountains is mountains, to see water is water” for the college students means that they know only the most common knowledge about their major. This is the beginning of their impressions on their discipline, but also with curiosity and freshness of the professional knowledge, to see every piece of knowledge with a simple and straightforward perspective. Mountains are mountains, water is water. They see professional things with a focus on the physical phenomena, without thinking deeply, so they believe that things are what they see. However, if their understanding of the professional knowledge stays on the surface, they can't see through the mystery of their major. Eventually, they will encounter a wall everywhere in reality of professional career, thus doubting the reality and usefulness of their discipline knowledge. The second realm in professional learning "to see mountains is not mountains, to see water is not water” means that the students hold a negative attitude to the learning knowledge, reflecting there are many kinds of doubts about their studies on discipline. This is because that too many truths and rules are hidden behind the false mask -the general cognition on their major, and what they see is not necessarily true. Looking at flowers in fog is like fantasy, without the capability of distinguishing the true or false. Mountains are not mountains; water is not water. Under this situation, it's easy for them to lose their direction in pursuing professional knowledge, following by confusion, hesitation, pain and struggle. Falling into a lost world, they begin to treat their majors and studies without their hearts. Mountain is no longer a mountain in pure meaning, nor is water in pure meaning. Their discipline knowledge is no longer their goals pursued wholeheartedly. II. THE MAIN DOUBTS ABOUT THE PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE At the first stage, the college students know about their discipline in a general manner. They know that this discipline is useful for the society, and that to learn well about the knowledge needs to study hard. This stage is mainly associated with the students majoring in this discipline in their first college life. They have few puzzles in this time period. Just as they stand at the foot of a high mountain (Fig. 1). At the third stage, the college students gradually know the whole situation about their discipline after several years’ hard studying. They know that the professional knowledge can be an important support for them to make a living in the real society. Similarly, they have few puzzles in this time period because they go into a stage that the professional knowledge will be exploited to create wealth for the society. Just as they have reached an enough height during the mountain climbing process to have a relative full overlook on their major. Most possibly, the main puzzles of the college students during their study processes concentrate in the second step, i.e. the hard process of climbing the mountain, the hard study about the professional knowledge. At this time period, the typical doubts can be categorized as follows: How much professional knowledge or lessons that they must study? 5th International Conference on Social Science and Higher Education (ICSSHE 19) Copyright © 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/). Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research, volume 336