Beijing, October 8 (Central Broadcasting Network) -- With the implementation of the "double reduction" policy, the extracurricular time of primary and secondary school students has been further liberated. As an off-campus event that integrates research-based learning and travel experience, there are obvious signs of popularity in the research and study travel market. According to the data released by Ctrip, the number of summer study tours this year increased by more than 650% year-on-year, and the orders for research and study products accounted for nearly 70% of the parent-child travel orders. In the past National Day holiday, parent-child tourism and study tourism have also been favored by many families. However, the reporter's investigation found that many research projects have neither "research" nor "learning", and the practitioners are mixed, and the activity design is shoddy.
In 2013, the State Council issued the Outline of National Tourism and Leisure (2013-2020), which encourages schools to organize students to carry out extracurricular practical activities of edutainment and travel.
In 2016, the Ministry of Education and 11 other departments issued the "Opinions on Promoting Research Trips for Primary and Secondary School Students", which pointed out that the study trips for primary and secondary school students are off-campus education activities that are organized and arranged by the education department and schools in a planned way, and combine research learning and travel experience through collective travel and centralized accommodation. Study tours should comply with the principles of education, practice, safety, and public welfare. In this regard, many parents of students expressed support. A parent said: "For example, when my child participates in art sketching (research activities), he will take his child into the history museum, and while understanding the history and culture, he can also use the brush in his hand to draw that period of history, which is very meaningful." ”
The current study trip takes two roughly ways, one is organized by the school, and the teachers and students establish the study theme and design the itinerary. The second is for travel agencies or study tour companies to design routes and strategies, and organize student study trips, which is also the main way used in the current study tour projects. Therefore, the effectiveness of the study tour depends largely on the quality of the products developed by the study tour company and the effect of the implementation of the activity.
Zhang Ying (pseudonym), who has worked in a domestic travel agency for more than ten years, told reporters that during this year's National Day, research and study tourism projects were favored by many parents and students, but a considerable number of projects were copied from each other by peers, perfunctory, lacked education and practice, and were almost equivalent to spring tours, autumn tours and summer camps. Zhang Ying said: "Because we all think that doing research is very simple, anyway, you send a plan out, I will copy it." ”
Zhang Ying revealed that after the implementation of the "double reduction" policy, some training institutions did not refund the class fees previously paid by the parents of students as required, but changed the original subject counseling into research projects, and deducted the fees previously paid by leading students on study trips. In addition, some training institutions even make up for courses in the name of research.
Zhang Ying said: "Since the state promulgated the 'double reduction' policy, when some large education and training institutions (extracurricular training that do not meet the requirements) were ordered to be banned, they immediately transformed into study tours. Because many parents have not consumed the school fees paid, and there is no way to refund, they can only come to participate in the activities, but they will be much higher than the similar market price, such as the original price of the product is more than 200 yuan, but if the class fee may be more than 600 yuan. ”
Zhang Ying told reporters that many research projects also have false publicity and arbitrary charges. Some of the activities that charge thousands of yuan per capita are actually visited by some free and open museums, and the so-called expert lecturers hired are actually only employees of training institutions. Zhang Ying believes that the audience of the study is primary and secondary school students, and the process of itinerary design and selection of explanation tutors is more rigorous and meticulous than that of adult-based tour groups.
"Because when you first come up, you must say that this is one of our research tutors, the child will not think about whether this person is professional or not, because he has not heard it before, you will listen to the child when you talk about it, in case you are wrong, the child hears it wrong, it is misleading the child." It is possible that the child will spread the wrong knowledge on a future exam, or on a future time when he uses this knowledge. I think the study should be more rigorous. Zhang Ying said.
The vast majority of the personnel of many travel companies who develop research and study products are from non-education-related majors, which also makes some research and learning products lack the educational meaning they deserve.
In addition, the person in charge of a travel agency in Sichuan told reporters that in the research and learning market, schools are resources that all parties are competing for. Some school leaders will choose travel agencies with high rebates to cooperate, regardless of the quality of research projects. This has also led to the study projects carried out by some schools becoming ordinary tourism activities, and most of the places visited are free and open venues, and the accommodation conditions are not ideal.
In order to standardize study tours, various localities have also introduced corresponding management measures. A few days ago, Jiangxi Province issued the local standard of "Primary and Secondary School Study Tour", covering the identification norms of study tour bases (camps), curriculum settings, organization and implementation, evaluation specifications, etc. Guo Jiezhong, director of the Department of Education of Jiangxi Province, said that in the next step, Jiangxi will select a number of research and study travel bases for primary and secondary school students, carefully create a number of exemplary study tour boutique routes, and establish a rich study tour curriculum system.
Guo Jiezhong said: "Gradually strengthen the construction of professional teams, establish a safety responsibility system, establish and improve an effective mechanism for the implementation of safety responsibility, accident handling, responsibility definition and dispute handling; scientifically evaluate the effectiveness of student research, and gradually incorporate the evaluation results into the student credit management system and the comprehensive quality evaluation system of students." ”
Chu Zhaohui, a researcher at the China Academy of Educational Sciences, pointed out that the current problems in study tours are mainly related to factors such as inconsistent service standards, lack of educational theory in the curriculum, and imperfect team building. Chu Zhaohui stressed that to standardize study tours, relevant departments should also refine regulatory responsibilities and improve regulatory mechanisms.
Chu Zhaohui said: "There are indeed many institutions in the society that are opened in the name of summer camps or quality training, and there is a lack of requirements in terms of professional qualifications, personnel quality, and personnel qualifications. In addition, there are problems with the relevant management aspects, especially the lack of regulation and supervision of the registration, verification and operation of these institutions. ”