Investigation of the connotation and constitution elements of innovative practice ability

Abstract

For practice behavior is a basic existence mode of human being, practice ability is the core ability of human existence, and innovative ability is the practice ability at higher level, innovative practice ability(IPA) becomes the basic objective of talent training in universities. Firstly, the connotation of IPA from two aspects has been analyzed in this paper. And then the constitution elements of IPA have been analyzed from four elements of innovative practice which are body and mind, profession, comprehension and motivation. The analyzed results show that IPA refers to not only enhancing the innovative features of practice ability, but also practice ability at higher developed level. And the four elements of IPA are interrelated and mutually promoted, and the different combinations will form IPA with different structures and levels. All these awareness become evidences for training the IPA. © 2012 Springer-Verlag.