According to the news on February 9, the General Office of the Sichuan Provincial Party Committee and the General Office of the Provincial Government recently issued the Implementation Plan on Comprehensively Strengthening and Improving the Aesthetic Education of Schools in the New Era (hereinafter referred to as the "Plan"). The "Plan" clearly wants to promote the reform of the middle school examination for art subjects, starting from the first-year junior high school students admitted in the autumn of 2022, each city (state) will fully incorporate the art subjects into the middle school examination and use them as scoring subjects for school examination admissions at the high school stage, and the content of the examination is determined according to the curriculum standards promulgated by the state, and the results are mainly composed of artistic quality assessment and skill test results.
The "Plan" clearly states that by the end of 2022, the school will make breakthroughs in aesthetic education, the aesthetic education curriculum will be fully developed, the reform of education and teaching will be remarkable, the allocation of resources will be continuously optimized, the evaluation system will be gradually improved, the management mechanism will be more perfect, and the effectiveness of educating people will be significantly enhanced. By 2025, the school aesthetic education work system will be more sound, the mechanism operation will be more effective, the evaluation system will be more scientific, the school aesthetic education system that integrates classroom teaching, art practice, and regular exhibitions and performances will be generally established, the conditions for running schools will be comprehensively improved, the quality of education and teaching will be significantly improved, and the aesthetic and humanistic qualities of students will be significantly improved. By 2035, a modern school aesthetic education system with full coverage, diversification, high quality and Sichuan characteristics will be basically formed.
The Plan specifies a number of key tasks. Among them, in terms of improving the aesthetic education curriculum, the "Plan" requires that the school's aesthetic education curriculum takes the art curriculum as the main body, mainly including music, art, calligraphy, dance, drama, opera, film and television and other courses. In the preschool education stage, art play activities suitable for the physical and mental characteristics of young children are carried out. In the compulsory education stage, the content of art courses is enriched, and on the basis of opening up music, art and calligraphy courses, dance, drama, film and television, as well as intangible cultural heritage projects with distinct local cultural characteristics such as Sichuan opera and Sichuan quyi are gradually opened. A variety of art courses are introduced at the high school level to increase the selectivity of art courses. Vocational education organically combines art courses with professional courses, highlights the characteristics of practice, and opens expansive art courses with the characteristics of vocational education. At the stage of higher education, public art courses are set up with the cultivation of aesthetic and humanistic qualities as the core, the cultivation of innovative ability as the focus, and the inheritance and development of Chinese excellent traditional culture and the education of art classics as the main content.
The "Plan" requires strict implementation of the rigid requirements for the opening of school aesthetic education courses. The total number of art course hours in schools at the compulsory education stage shall not be less than 9% of the total number of hours at that stage, and schools with the capacity shall be encouraged to open art courses at the rate of 11% of the total class hours; the number of art course hours in the junior secondary school stage shall not be less than 20% of the total number of art course hours in the compulsory education stage. On the basis of the music and art courses offered in ordinary high schools, it is guaranteed that the compulsory courses of art subjects reach 6 credits. Secondary vocational schools incorporate the arts curriculum into the compulsory public foundation curriculum for students, including 36 hours of foundation modules and 36 hours of extended modules. At the stage of higher education, public art courses should be opened for all students, public art courses and art practices should be included in the school's talent training program, and the credit system management should be implemented, and students can graduate after completing the credits of public art courses. Encourage colleges and universities to carry out cross-school elective public art theory work and implement mutual recognition of credits. Encourage colleges and universities and scientific research institutes to incorporate aesthetics and art courses into the public curriculum system of postgraduate education.
In terms of enriching art practice activities, the "Plan" requires the establishment of a normalized art exhibition and performance mechanism for everyone, in principle, a comprehensive art exhibition of provincial college students and primary and secondary school students is held every 3 years, and qualified cities (states) and counties (cities, districts) are encouraged to carry out special art exhibitions for primary and secondary school students every year. Establish a regular, diverse and characteristic exhibition and performance mechanism at the school level, and if conditions permit, the school will carry out at least 1 art festival or exhibition and display activity every year to ensure that each student can participate in at least 1 art activity. Encourage rural schools to carry out artistic practice activities with local characteristics. Strengthen the construction of school art clubs and art interest groups, and regularly carry out activities such as choruses, ensembles, group dances, and textbook dramas. Promote the use of art practice workshop experience to build a good art practice base on campus. Establish national and provincial demonstration college, secondary and primary school student art troupes, select outstanding student art troupes to participate in major national and provincial performance activities, and enhance the development level of college art troupes and the participation of non-art students.
In terms of improving the infrastructure conditions of school aesthetic education, the "Plan" requires that all localities should implement the basic standards of national school aesthetic education work, incorporate the construction of aesthetic education facilities into the high-quality and balanced development plan of compulsory education, and build special classrooms, equipment and facilities, exhibition venues, art workshops and art venues to meet the needs of classroom teaching and practical activities. Small-scale schools are equipped with the necessary functional classrooms and facilities and equipment based on the principle of maintaining the basic and bottom line. Encourage areas with the capacity to build a number of primary and secondary school aesthetic education venues to share with surrounding schools and communities. Strengthen the construction of aesthetic education venues in colleges and universities, and encourage colleges and universities with conditions to jointly build and share art venues such as theaters, concert halls, art galleries, calligraphy halls, and museums with local conditions. Equipped with the equipment required for aesthetic education and teaching, establish a daily maintenance mechanism, and improve the efficiency of use.
In terms of the construction of the aesthetic education teacher team, all localities should increase the strength of the supplementary force of the contingent of aesthetic education teachers in primary and secondary schools, and the areas that are not equipped should set aside a certain proportion every year for the recruitment of aesthetic education teachers, focusing on supplementing aesthetic education teachers in ethnic minority areas and rural schools, and increasing the proportion of full-time aesthetic education teachers. Areas with the capacity can provide aesthetic education teaching services to primary and secondary schools by purchasing services and cooperating with relevant professional institutions and other social forces to alleviate the shortage of aesthetic education teachers. Strengthen the allocation of aesthetic education teaching and research personnel, and each county (city, district) should allocate at least 1 full-time aesthetic education teaching and research staff, and explore ways to hire part-time teaching and research personnel. Encourage outstanding literary and artistic workers to wait until schools to concurrently serve as aesthetic education teachers, and support representative inheritors of intangible cultural heritage to participate in school teaching and teaching and scientific research. Strengthen the training of aesthetic education teachers, and comprehensively improve the ideological and political quality, teaching quality, education ability and professional ethics of the aesthetic education teacher team.
In terms of the overall integration of social resources, the "Plan" proposes that urban and community construction planning should coordinate the needs of students' artistic practice, and new cultural and artistic projects should be prioritized in schools or their surroundings. Fully excavate the social service function of school art venues, and encourage schools with conditions to open art venues to the society in an orderly manner. Encourage schools to cooperate with social public cultural and art venues and literary and art academies to set up aesthetic education courses, encourage colleges and universities to provide guidance and support for primary and secondary schools in terms of art exhibitions and performances, talent training, etc., and encourage outstanding literary and art workers to establish art studios in schools and traditional culture inheritors to participate in literary and art volunteer service projects. Integrate intramural and off-campus resources to carry out aesthetic education practice activities, as an effective way to solve the "three-and-a-half" problem after school in primary and secondary schools and an important carrier for after-school service work for primary and secondary school students. Strengthen the management of off-campus art education and training, and standardize art competitions, art examinations, and other activities for primary and secondary school students. Parents are encouraged to take advantage of the holidays to lead students to participate in art practice activities.
In terms of promoting the reform of aesthetic education evaluation, we will improve the aesthetic education evaluation system in schools, incorporate the learning of art courses such as music, art, calligraphy and other art courses by primary and secondary school students and participate in art practice activities organized by schools into their academic requirements, and include art subjects in the scope of junior and senior high school academic level examinations. Comprehensively implement the artistic quality assessment of primary and secondary school students, and incorporate the assessment results into the comprehensive quality evaluation of junior and senior high school students. Promote the reform of the middle school examination for art subjects, starting from the first-year junior high school students who enter the school in the fall of 2022, each city (state) will fully incorporate the art subjects into the middle school examination and as a scoring subject for the enrollment and admission of the high school examination, the content of the examination is determined according to the curriculum standards promulgated by the state, and the results are mainly composed of artistic quality assessment and skill test results. Orderly implement monitoring and evaluation of the quality of art education, regularly carry out monitoring in the sample counties, and continuously improve the scientificity, pertinence, and effectiveness of the evaluation work. Encourage all localities to entrust third-party professional institutions to carry out quality evaluation of art education.
In terms of safeguard measures, the Programme refers to safeguard funding. Governments at all levels should increase policy support for school aesthetic education, adjust and optimize the structure of education expenditure, and improve the input mechanism; Coordinate and arrange financial transfer funds and financial resources at the same level to support the aesthetic education work of schools. Encourage and guide social funds to support the development of aesthetic education in schools, attract social donations, increase investment through multiple channels, and form a long-term mechanism for diversified support for the development of aesthetic education in schools.
Source: Duozhi.com
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