China Economic Weekly – Economic Network News Recently, the Ministry of Education issued the "Curriculum Plan and Curriculum Standards for Compulsory Education (2022 Edition)", which has aroused widespread concern and heated discussion in the education sector. On April 27, the Guangdong Institute of Education organized the provincial education experts, scholars, and teachers and students' representatives to gather in Guangzhou Conghua Taosence Earth Art Park to deeply interpret the curriculum reform of compulsory education and explore a new path of compulsory education. Professor Huang Chunqing, Secretary-General of the Guangdong Institute of Education, Supervisor of the Guangdong Provincial People's Government, Dean of the Basic Research Institute of Guangdong Education Press, Professor Hu Zhongfeng, Dean of the School of Politics and Public Administration of South China Normal University, Professor Hao Linlin, Secretary-General of the Comprehensive Practice Special Committee of the Guangdong Institute of Education, Professor Hong Xuan, Director of the Comprehensive Practice Special Committee of the Guangdong Institute of Education, and Research Supervisor, Professor Mo Daoming, the creator of the Taosence Earth Art Park, and others attended the event. At the event site, the Guangdong Education Society awarded the title of "Comprehensive Practice Education Base for Primary and Secondary Schools in Guangdong Province" to the Taosence Earth Art Park.

The picture shows the scene of the symposium

The new curriculum standard specifies "who to train, how to train and for whom to train"

The 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China and the National Education Conference require that we fully implement the Party's education policy, implement the fundamental task of building morality and cultivating people, develop quality education, promote education fairness, and train socialist builders and successors who develop morally, intellectually, physically, and aesthetically.

In 2011, China achieved the comprehensive popularization of compulsory education, and the educational demand changed from "having to learn" to "having to learn". It is necessary to further clarify "who to train, how to train and for whom to train", and optimize the blueprint of school education. To cope with the impact of the COVID-19, it is necessary to strengthen the support and guidance of courses on online learning and other aspects. All these require that we must deepen the curriculum reform and strengthen the curriculum construction of compulsory education.

The picture shows Professor Hu Zhongfeng, Dean of the School of Politics and Public Administration of South China Normal University, giving a speech

Hu Zhongfeng said, "Practice has proved that the exam-oriented education system in the past can no longer meet the requirements of our times. After the new curriculum plan and curriculum standards come out, our teaching concepts, teaching methods and teaching space will all be changed accordingly."

The picture shows Professor Hao Linlin, Secretary-General of the Special Committee for Comprehensive Practice Activities of Guangdong Education Association, receiving an interview

Huang Chunqing said that the new curriculum standard at the compulsory education stage has separated labor education and information technology education from comprehensive practical activities and upgraded them to national independent curriculum. Coincidentally, in the view of Hao Linlin, the new curriculum standard attaches special importance to sports and health, and specially advances labor education to an independent national curriculum discipline. "We should improve the educational value of labor in labor education, and our comprehensive practical activities also advance the opening of labor education to the first and second grades, which is fully covered by the high school stage. Next, we will organize the revision and compilation of teaching materials, and also organize supporting teaching resources." She said.

Hong Xuan analyzed that the new curriculum standard, based on the forefront of the world's education reform, depicts the education blueprint of schools in China's compulsory education stage for the next ten years or more. It first emphasizes the quality orientation, and focuses on cultivating the core quality required for students' lifelong development and social development, especially the ability to solve problems in real situations. Establish curriculum objectives based on core literacy, select curriculum contents, develop academic quality standards, and promote the reform of examination evaluation. Secondly, optimize the organizational form of curriculum content, jump out of the pattern of subject knowledge listing, organize and present the curriculum content according to students' learning logic, and strengthen the connection with students' experience, real life and social practice. Integrate the course content through themes, projects, tasks and other forms, highlight the backbone and eliminate redundancy. At the same time, we should highlight practical education, strengthen the combination of curriculum with productive labor and social practice, and emphasize the unity of knowledge and practice. We advocate learning by doing, learning by using and creating, pay attention to guiding students to participate in disciplinary inquiry activities, carry out interdisciplinary practice, experience the process of finding problems, solving problems, building knowledge, and applying knowledge, so that knowledge can be improved based on practice and through practice, and overcome the "two skins" phenomenon of knowledge and practice.

She suggested that vocational colleges could carry out various forms of immersive labor education theme practice activities, coordinate labor education and aesthetic education, and create an "labor aesthetic education" immersive curriculum ideological and political practice activity platform of "labor+art+value".

Taosence Earth Art Park helps build a comprehensive practice base for labor, nature and innovation education in Guangdong

The picture shows the scene of the unveiling ceremony

On the day of the event, the Guangdong Education Society awarded the title of "Comprehensive Practice Education Base for Primary and Secondary Schools in Guangdong Province" to the Taosence Earth Art Park.

It is reported that since 2014, the Taosence Earth Art Park has been included in the key construction projects of Guangdong Province. It is an ecological park integrating culture, sports, education and health care. At present, it has won the honorary titles of National Sports Tourism Demonstration Base, Guangdong Youth Outdoor Sports Research Base, Guangdong Outdoor Training and Development Base, Guangdong National Fitness Outdoor Activity Base and so on.

The picture shows a group of educational experts visiting the Taosence Park

At present, centering on the "culture+sports+health care+tourism" model, the park has carried out or developed a series of activities and tourism products such as tourism sports, outdoor education research, health care and elderly care, forest education, etc. At the same time, relying on the advantageous resources of the platform of Guangdong Experimental Middle School (Tianhe Campus), it has established six characteristic education schools, including the School of Nature and Life, the School of Artificial Intelligence and Science, the School of Outdoor Sports, the School of Handicraft Art, the School of Aesthetics, and the School of Culture and History.

Mo Daoming believes that the new curriculum standard highlights the three themes of nature, labor and innovation education, and comprehensively emphasizes and improves the core quality of students in the compulsory education stage. In the future, Taosence - Guangdong Provincial Comprehensive Practical Activity Education Base for Primary and Secondary Schools will closely combine natural exploration and labor education, plan to carry out a series of natural education research courses and activities, and focus on helping children shape a sound personality, cultivate innovative thinking and problem-solving ability from five aspects of knowledge, perseverance, emotion, thinking and art.

The picture shows Professor Huang Chunqing, Secretary-General of the Guangdong Education Society, Supervisor of the People's Government of Guangdong Province and Dean of the Basic Research Institute of Guangdong Education Press, giving a speech

Huang Chunqing believes that the Taosence Earth Art Park, as the educational base for comprehensive practical activities in primary and secondary schools across the province, plays a very important fundamental and resource role in the implementation of the new curriculum standards in Guangzhou and even Guangdong. In the next step, we hope that Taosence can guide primary and secondary students to carry out interdisciplinary research and learning by building labor education, research travel and other exploratory schools, do more course design, enrich more course resources, and let students really have their own construction, which can promote students' innovative spirit, innovative ability and practical ability.