In order to recruit students to play "advance cards", "exam cards", "cup competition cards" and "training cards" - "art training fever" requires "cold thinking"
Author: our reporter Zhou Shixiang
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"The dance class asks to pay 740 yuan to participate in the recording of TV programs, and also rent clothes, make-up, car and registration fees at their own expense. As long as everyone participates in the program, everyone will have a certificate. This kind of recording or competition occurs almost every year, I don't know what the significance is. ?" On the headline number, a parent of a primary school student in Chengdu, Sichuan "spit out" an art training institution. "Although the teacher said it was voluntary, everyone knew it in private."
On the one hand, it is "charged frequently", and on the other hand, it is "tight propaganda". "In the days to come, parents really need to pay close attention. Children should not only have a firm grasp of 'language and mathematics', but also understand and study music, art, and sports. In 2022, aesthetic education will enter the senior high school entrance examination. An artistic specialty is to seize the opportunity!" A parent-child international art center's official account advertisement, which is familiar with parents' "heart knot", plays the "exam card" to attract attention.
After the implementation of the "double reduction" policy, students bid farewell to subject training during weekends and holidays, and non-disciplinary training in art has become popular in many places. However, malicious price increases, exaggerated marketing, and anxiety have made this "hotness" run the risk of going astray - the weekends and holidays that have just been "recovered" are obviously for students to return to their interests and return to "simultaneous development of five educations". But there is a new "rush". Obviously, the current "art training fever" requires "cold thinking": how should parents and students choose rationally if they want to cultivate an artistic specialty? The reporter had a dialogue with Guo Shengjian, a professor at Hunan Normal University and deputy director of the National College Aesthetic Education Teaching Steering Committee.
Why study? From "utility-led" to "interest-led"
■Observation
In the past winter vacation, "unlocking an art" has become the choice of many parents and students.
According to a survey by Guangzhou Daily, more than 30% of parents have increased demand for quality training after the "double reduction", and among them, art training is the most preferred, accounting for 62.5%.
According to relevant media reports, many comprehensive training institutions in Nanjing have added winter vacation classes and shifts.
The person in charge of a Shanghai Baoshan family that focuses on comprehensive training in sports, technology and art also said, "After the 'double reduction', all classrooms are full of courses every weekend" and "winter vacation classes are full one month before the holiday."
■Dialogue
Reporter: The "double reduction" policy has made many restrictive regulations on subject training in primary and secondary schools. Some people think that non-subject training faces new development space. In your opinion, with the further deepening of the "double reduction" policy, what changes or development opportunities will the art training for primary and secondary school students face?
Guo Shengjian:
I have noticed the division of disciplinary and non-disciplinary training in the "double reduction" policy.
In fact, music, art, etc. are also "disciplines", but for a long time, students have participated in intellectual education courses such as Chinese, history, mathematics, physics and chemistry with the aim of improving their test scores. s consequence.
For the huge off-campus training market, most of the previous art training was prepared for students who will take the art major entrance examination in the future.
Therefore, the "double reduction" provides an opportunity for the development of universal primary and secondary school art training for everyone: first, more and more students will have the time to choose to participate in art training according to their own interests; second, there will be more and more More training institutions may shift from subject-based training to non-subject-based training; thirdly, while popular artistic literacy training is gradually increasing, utilitarian exam-oriented training may also increase.
For example, after the introduction of the "double reduction" policy, it is rumored on the Internet that the prices of certain brands of pianos will increase immediately, which is by no means a good sign.
There must be no such situation: the excessive academic burden turns into a "double" academic burden and financial burden.
■Observation
Ms. Wang, who lives in Xicheng, Beijing, has a child who is in the second grade of primary school this year. She "worries a lot" and spends little money for the art grade test.
"One piano lesson is 400 yuan. Dance has passed the fourth grade this year. There is also painting, which is also a test. It's all money."
"My daughter has no time to learn dance because she is nervous about her studies. She jumped from kindergarten to grade 5, and got to grade 8. Although she likes dancing, she has to train before each grade test, buy grade test clothes, hand in Qian, I really don't know if these certificates will help her to study in middle and high school?" A Shandong parent on Toutiao also expressed confusion.
■Dialogue
Reporter: Many students, especially urban students with better family conditions, have studied 1-2 art specialties in primary school, and even participated in the examinations. However, many people may give up due to academic pressure in the upper grades of primary school and after middle school. After subject training is reduced, students' extracurricular time is "released" to a certain extent. Do you think there will be an art "graduation craze"?
Guo Shengjian:
Actually, the reason for giving up is not only the increase in academic pressure, but also the problem of art training itself. Many students give up off-campus art study because they can't bear the specialized and technical boring skills training and the utilitarian art grade examination.
It is for the above reasons that I don't think the "grade test fever" in art will emerge.
First, the Ministry of Education has repeatedly clarified and emphasized that all kinds of social art grading tests or competitions should not be used as evaluation indicators for school aesthetic education, and school aesthetic education evaluation does not recognize the results of art grading tests, which means that art grading tests are practical as a utilitarian pursuit and a means of examination-oriented education. The system has been blocked; second, in recent years, the utilitarian awareness of parents has gradually weakened. There are fewer and fewer parents who let their children participate in social art training for the purpose of examinations. This is also the complete decoupling of grades and entrance examinations. The third is that if training institutions blindly attract and consolidate students by taking grades examinations instead of trying to improve art teaching and make students really like art learning, they will not be able to go far.
In fact, the art grade test itself is not a bad thing.
If it is only used as a means to stimulate students' interest in learning and test the learning effect, the grade test is completely possible.
However, if it is a utilitarian goal, the content, form, and goals of art training are all for the examination, which will lead to the "kidnapping" of art learning by the examination, which will lead to a misunderstanding, and even relieve parents and students from subject training. The academic burden has been transferred to the art training aimed at the art grade examination, which is harmful to both art education and the physical and mental development of students.
How to learn better? Raise the entry threshold and return to the education standard
■Observation
"At that time, the teacher of the training school said that as long as 30% or 400% in the cultural course, we can get a bachelor's degree in art. We studied for nearly two years from the second to the third year of high school, and each training cost nearly 60,000 yuan. In the last month, we also received the so-called "send" The exam fee is '1,000 yuan, and my daughter told me in the end that I spent so much money in vain without lowering my grades for studying media." Recently, on the message board of the government of a capital city in the central region, some parents "accused" the art training institution for false propaganda and disorderly conduct. fee issue.
In response to prominent problems such as false or exaggerated propaganda, malicious price increases, and illegal dumping of class hours for non-disciplinary off-campus training institutions that have been strongly reflected in the current society, Tianjin, Zhejiang, Sichuan, Chengdu and other places have successively issued documents to provide information on art off-campus training teachers and registered funds. , training venues, etc., and the Ministry of Culture and Tourism also issued a document to strictly regulate the enrollment and publicity of off-campus training in culture and art.
The Ministry of Education, the National Development and Reform Commission, and the State Administration for Market Regulation deployed and carried out special rectification of non-disciplinary off-campus training fees before and after the last winter vacation, found 52 institutions with malicious price increases, and issued an announcement prohibiting the use of fictitious originals, false discounts, false propaganda, etc. fair competition.
■Dialogue
Reporter: After the introduction of the "double reduction" policy, various localities have put forward a number of rectification measures for the chaos of non-disciplinary extracurricular training. In what areas do you think arts training should be further regulated?
Guo Shengjian:
In recent years, there has been a lot of chaos in art training. It can be seen from the teaching videos circulating on the Internet that contain various common-sense errors, and reports of training institutions and college teachers colluding with each other in the art college entrance examination. The art training market is indeed in urgent need of regulation. .
How to regulate the art training market, the "Double Deduction" opinion put forward the general requirements, that is, "for non-disciplinary training institutions, all localities should distinguish sports, culture and art, science and technology and other categories, clarify the corresponding competent departments, set standards by classification, and strictly examine and approve" .
I think we can start from the following aspects: First, clarify the entry threshold of training institutions, including the software and hardware conditions of teachers, venues, equipment and equipment, and must have specific standards, and the approval unit should be the education administrative department rather than business management or culture. Department, because art training is an educational activity, it must conform to the basic norms of education and follow the basic laws of education; second, the competent department should organize experts to develop basic teaching norms or requirements for social art training, and use this as a basis for art training. Supervise the teaching behavior of training institutions, focusing on examining the teacher's ethics, professionalism and teaching level; third, the education administrative department and the price department should jointly formulate the charging standards and strictly implement them. Fraudulent behaviors that charge high fees will be banned from training immediately upon discovery.
■Observation
"We can only take time to study at ordinary times. The winter vacation class is more professional, centralized and systematic, and the improvement will be a qualitative leap." This is the slogan of an art training institution.
In fact, there are many opportunities for children to be exposed to art after school, weekends and holidays. There are hosted courses provided by schools or related institutions, as well as special experience programs in social and cultural rooms and cultural centers, and many museums and youth activity centers. Kids are open.
For example, Sichuan Province has issued relevant plans to encourage schools to cooperate with public cultural and art venues and literary and art troupes to offer aesthetic education courses, and to encourage outstanding literary and art workers to set up art studios in schools.
■Dialogue
Reporter: What is the difference between in-school art course study and extracurricular art training? How do you see the role of developing an artistic interest in the future development of young students?
Guo Shengjian:
The most obvious difference between school art courses and extracurricular art training is that school art courses are mainly basic literacy education for everyone, and the purpose is to improve the artistic aesthetic quality of all students; while extracurricular art training belongs to the voluntary participation of students. It is to meet the individual needs of students in art learning.
The "Opinions on Comprehensively Strengthening and Improving School Aesthetic Education in the New Era" issued by the Central Office and the State Office proposes to cultivate students one or two artistic specialties. To be honest, if only relying on school art education, it is not easy to achieve such a goal.
Therefore, the value and function of school art education and off-campus art training are different, and they should promote each other and complement each other.
We look forward to the "double reduction" to provide an opportunity for art training to get on the right track. Through social art training, students' artistic interests and hobbies can be cultivated and strengthened, and on this basis, one or two art specialties will be formed, which will accompany students throughout their lives.
I think that no matter what career a child will pursue in the future, artistic hobbies and specialties can enrich individual lifestyles, cultivate sentiments, warm the soul, stimulate innovation and creativity, and improve the "happiness index".
(Reporter Zhou Shixiang of this newspaper)