Nowadays, the educational direction of domestic parents is roughly divided into two major schools: international education and intra-system routes. Children who take international education should pay attention to the all-round development of leadership and teamwork, while children who take the public system will focus more on the cultivation of skills and the direct display of learning results. Therefore, usually they will most likely only "meet on a narrow road" when they change tracks.
But we found that there is a "magical" place - the Lijuan Experimental Art Creativity Center.
Lijuan Experimental Art Creativity Center Project Exhibition
Here, there is no separation between international and public schools, and some of the children who go out of here go to Tsinghua University, Princeton, and Parsons School of Art, and in terms of majors, there are arts, science, engineering, and liberal arts.
Children from Lijuan to the world - excerpt
One can't help but wonder: why can a place to learn art allow children to have so many possibilities?
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Don't apply for cram school, don't take exams, Sister Niu Wahua insisted on this matter
Founded in 1997, Lijuan Experimental Art Creativity Center (hereinafter referred to as "Lijuan") has opened a total of 7 campuses in Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen and Hangzhou, and the earliest campus in Beijing has been established for 18 years.
Lijuan's documentary "An Art School for the Future" can be watched by searching for the title on station b
Xiao Qiao and Xiao Xi sisters are children who grew up in Lijuan all the way, the elder sister Xiao Qiao is 15 years old, and the younger sister Xiao Xi is 12 years old, and they have been joining Lijuan for seven or eight years.
It is difficult for anyone who has seen their works not to be fascinated, and while sighing at the artistic talent of the sisters, they are also curious, what kind of education can bring such creativity and aura to children?
Xiao Qiao's project project demonstration in Lijuan
Xiao Qiao makes a work in Lijuan's class
The sisters' works are full of love for life and art:
They draw their mother's breakfast, draw their own patterns on their T-shirts and shoes, record the beautiful moments in their lives in the form of sketches, give gifts to friends and family on holidays, and try to create their own content in the form of sculptures, installation art, tie-dye crafts, comics, etc.
The life of Xiao Qiao and Xiao Xi is hand-painted
Xiao Qiao shows his three-dimensional creations in the exhibition
Through the study of Lijuan Education, they seem to have an "artist mind", giving the beauty of art to ordinary things, and creativity is also integrated into their bones, reflected in all aspects of life.
Even in biology class, my sister can learn in an artistic way, such as hand-drawing every detail of the animal, "I can completely remember it once I draw it, and I don't have to memorize it by rote", and my sister designed a complete rafting route map for "Robinson Crusoe" in the project-based learning of Chinese class.
Xiao Qiao and Xiao Xi's biological notes and model creation
This is also the interdisciplinary thinking they learned in the classroom of Lijuan Education – to make art a tool to connect different disciplines.
Thanks to seven or eight years of systematic learning in Lijuan Education, the sisters have learned a set of closed-loop projects to apply what they have learned: express their ideas with appropriate materials, and stimulate their imagination and release creativity through the process of divergent thinking, sketches, plans, selection of materials and hands-on work.
Xiao Qiao, Xiao Xi's reading list and reading notes
This problem-solving mindset has also positively affected their academic development, my sister was promoted to junior high school a few years ago, in addition to her resume, she also handed over her portfolio in Lijuan, and her sister also entered the first grade of junior high school through early selection last year, and both sisters were admitted to a key middle school in Chaoyang District.
It's hard to imagine that the institution they have been insisting on going to since childhood is only Lijuan Education!
At Lijuan, there are many students like Xiao Qiao Xiaoxi, all of whom have one thing in common: they are creative and interdisciplinary, and they are able to apply the way of thinking they have cultivated in Lijuan's education to feed their own studies. This is what distinguishes Lijuan's experimental art education from other art institutions.
Xiao Qiao and Xiao Xi talked about their learning experience in Lijuan
What's so magical about immersing a 4-year-old in a 3-hour, 10-year course?
Lijuan also has an unconventional place, that is, each class is 3 hours, far beyond the ordinary class length, even so, after the 4-year-old child has finished 3 hours, he still doesn't want to go home.
Children are working on a synthesis of materials
Why is that? You'll see it in a lesson.
In a preschool class of "Understanding Color", Lijuan's teacher first took the children to observe life, extract the colors in nature, guide the children to find color samples from the soil, ornaments, and plants, and use tools to crush these substances into powder, and then observe the color of the powder.
Discover color through the exploration of rocks
Discover color through the exploration of light and shadow
In this process, you can see that Lijuan's "experimental art" is very different from traditional art classes:
It includes the study of general knowledge of art, the process of material experimentation, conceptual design, forming their own opinions, and Lijuan's most classic conceptual experiments, which carry out new explorations and produce new creations based on the existing concepts and cognitions in children's minds.
After a whole set of process practice, the children's experience is not to be instilled with knowledge, but to play and express themselves.
The children in Lijuan's classroom spoke enthusiastically
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If the younger children are most easily attracted by the fun of the course, then the older children are immersed in the practical process of "full of achievement".
In the theme class of "Conceptual Design of Chairs", the main training of design thinking is the main focus, and children need to go into the furniture store, consult the information for market research, observe in person, and sit down to feel the single item of the chair;
Then generate your own ideas, think about what kind of chair you are going to design, where is the space for its use, who will use it, what functions it has, etc.;
You can also brainstorm with teachers and classmates to refine your creativity;
Then draw a prototype in your mind and think about the materials it will use;
In the end, the plan was released, and he presented his work to everyone like a CEO......
Children's designs and mock-ups
Lijuan Education adopts PBL project-based learning method, the teacher plays the role of running through and guiding the whole process, and will never replace the child's thinking, the teacher will provide professional advice when the child needs help, and the idea of solving the problem, provide a platform, resources and methods, and finally present the child's sense of autonomy, and the child is the designer and artist behind the "product".
Therefore, in Lijuan's studio, you can see a variety of tools, materials, equipment, machines, and the classroom is a large laboratory, all of which serve to stimulate children's creativity.
Tools and materials in Lijuan's classroom
Some people may wonder if avant-garde, cutting-edge art concepts are often unfounded and rely on human inspiration, so how does Lijuan ensure that the curriculum here is scientific and rigorous?
Lijuan Education combines the psychological characteristics and cognitive laws of children aged 4-18, and after 27 years of painstaking research, it has created a solid and hard-core learning system.
Divided into five art studios and international art preparatory classes according to age groups. Children can complete Lijuan's system classes in the art studio, and when they reach the stage of junior high school, if they want to apply for overseas art universities, they can join the international preparatory class.
Lijuan's curriculum for different age groups
Unlike other portfolio institutions, the teacher in charge of the International Foundation Year said, "We are training students with the same standards as cultivating artists. "As a result, the learning cycle is longer and the content is more comprehensive.
In the first two years, students will develop deeper knowledge and skills through project-based learning, and transform textbook knowledge into real-world solutions.
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Lijuan's curriculum is a set of courses that can be used as the main course for the cultivation of talents, and can also be used as an after-school supplementary learning to cultivate children's creative literacy, as long as they join this system, the children's future will have more possibilities.
This also corresponds to the requirements for talents in the future social development, and talents like Musk and Jobs who have both creativity and the ability to solve practical problems are the general trend.
Lijuan's future talent quality evaluation system
In the digital age, knowledge can be readily available, but creativity is difficult to copy and paste, Lijuan cultivates children's ability to process "creativity", which is difficult to obtain in a short period of time.
Yiming, who has studied in Lijuan for nearly ten years, is a science student, and also participated in mathematics competitions in high school, and incorporated elements of mathematics into his artworks, and was admitted to Tsinghua University with a score of 701;
A collage work created by Yiming in Lijuan
Tang Tang, who went to Princeton University to study art history and archaeology, was inspired by the intersection of art and other disciplines at Lijuan Education, and she will start to explore more disciplines.
and Ruoyi, who is studying fashion design at Parsons School of Design, has studied at Lijuan throughout her childhood for almost her entire childhood, and Lijuan has taught her the experimental spirit of "you can try anything".
Ruoyi returned to Lijuan in her sophomore year to share her studies
There is also no shortage of cases that hold Lijuan's portfolio, which are favored by dream schools when they are promoted to junior high school and junior high school, although art is not a hard currency for further education, but it is a weapon that reflects the "differentiation" of children and is recognized at a glance in the crowd.
Many people ask, what is the purpose of cultivating children to learn art? From the children who Lijuan walked out, it can be seen that it is not to cultivate the kind of "people with unique temperament among excellent people"?
Lijuan's children are experimenting with materials
To meet the expectations of Kochi's mother, parents in the art circle closed their eyes
One of the things that Lijuan's experimental art is difficult to replace is that it creates a "self-driven" field, when children are in such immersion, they have the ability to solve problems, parents do not "waste mother", and children do not have internal friction.
Children perceive "water" from different dimensions
For example, in the "gene" theme class, there is a lot of professional knowledge involved, and how to transform obscure and esoteric biological knowledge into ideas that can touch people's hearts is what "experimental art" aims to overcome.
Lijuan's teacher guided the children to find themselves through the research, find out the possible association of "genes" with themselves, and then dig deep into this point for research. A kid was injured in gym class at that time, and he had a wound on his body, and he wondered if he could start here.
After learning about how the body's immune tissues fight against bacteria and destroy the whole process, he was deeply inspired and hoped that more people could also understand this miraculous phenomenon.
Children's "gene" project planning and comprehensive art creation
There are also "I am hurt" theme class, let the adolescent children boldly express their inner pain, some children cry in class, their pressure into an installation artwork, parents after seeing the child's work display, the heart is very shocked: if it is not for this opportunity, I have not realized that the child's cognition can reach this level, so I began to reflect on how I can communicate with the child in depth.
The significance of this course goes beyond the art class itself, it also teaches children how to find their place in the age of information explosion, how to quickly understand the knowledge of the professional field, how to communicate with the surrounding people, and how to express opinions in an appropriate way......
It provides a set of underlying logic for children's whole-person education.
Experiments and creations of materials in the project
It is not difficult to understand why Beijing parents, who have read countless "lessons", are attracted to Lijuan, because it fills the gap in school education:
For children in public schools, Lijuan gives them a more relaxed and inclusive environment, an occasion to express themselves, and an opportunity to experience an international project-based learning style.
For children in international schools, Lijuan seamlessly integrates after-school inquiry activities, allowing students to combine their own in-school projects and produce in-depth products in a more "experimental" environment provided by Lijuan.
Lijuan's children are proficient in using a variety of tools
The small and beautiful Lijuan, with the avant-garde experimental art, will turn the cultivation of creativity into a set of evidence-based and growth-oriented acquisition methods, as long as the child accumulates day after day under the route of Lijuan, creativity can be greatly developed.
Nowadays, no matter where you are in Lijuan, you can see students from different types of schools, and there are even parents in the art world who send their children to study in Lijuan, as well as Kochi parents, writers, parenting bloggers, artists, and scientists who have returned from studying abroad...... They all have one thing in common, that is, they have an ideal for education, and this ideal can be realized in Lijuan.
If you have such ideals, welcome to Lijuan Experimental Art Creativity Center to find out!
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