"At present, human education faces two challenges: children’s excessive knowledge learning and accumulation and children’s poor life practice and perception." A few days ago, at the 2023 Beijing Normal University Cultural Innovation Forum and the annual forum of the Capital Institute of Cultural Innovation and Cultural Communication Engineering, Guo Zhenyou, former deputy inspector of the state and former executive vice president of the China Education Association, pointed out.
At the forum, Guo Zhenyou discussed the relationship between the innovation and creation of traditional culture and the policy of "double reduction". He said that the "double reduction" policy is related to the fundamental problem of cultivating people and is a major strategic decision. At present, human education faces two challenges: children’s excessive knowledge learning and accumulation and children’s poor life practice and perception. To achieve the goal of "double reduction" policy, we need to return to traditional education, attach importance to "human" education, and cultivate good ideals, beliefs, moral sentiments and values.
At the same time, Guo Zhenyou emphasized that teachers play an important role in the reform and need to have the ability of innovation and creativity, including cultivating the ability to learn, comprehend and practice traditional culture, and dealing with various relationships in the "double reduction" from a broader perspective, a higher level and greater wisdom, running a satisfactory education for the people and promoting the construction of a high-quality education system.
Talking about the high-quality development of basic education in the capital, Li Chen, a professor at the Education Department of Beijing Normal University and director of the Technical Committee of the National Engineering Research Center for Intelligent Technology and Application of Internet Education, pointed out that his four major propositions are: high-quality and balanced education, supporting students’ individualized development, truly implementing quality education and solving the "volume" of basic education.
Li Chen believes that it is difficult to solve these problems with the traditional standardized school-running model, and the development of information technology provides a new way to solve the educational bottleneck. She also stressed that innovative ideas are of great significance in promoting the high-quality development of basic education. In her view, in order to promote balanced development, it is necessary to explore innovative teaching organizational forms; In order to meet individual needs, it is necessary to promote the reform of education supply side; It is necessary to integrate the resources of the whole society and serve the all-round development of students; At the same time, reform the evaluation method and improve the evaluation ability to solve the problem of social "volume".
The forum, organized by the Capital Institute of Cultural Innovation and Cultural Communication Engineering, aims to discuss issues such as the integrity, innovation and continuous development of Chinese excellent traditional culture in the new era, and to make suggestions and suggestions for stimulating the vitality of cultural innovation in Beijing, helping the construction of a national cultural center and promoting the high-quality development of education and culture.
At the forum, Yu Dan, president and chief expert of the Capital Institute of Cultural Innovation and Cultural Communication Engineering, said that China’s traditional cultural resources are rich and complicated. The strength, depth and breadth of traditional cultural innovation practice are determined by which elements to choose for creative transformation, how to find the balance between traditional value and contemporary value, and how to adapt the expression of traditional content to the needs of contemporary life. To this end, she proposed three paths: activating resources and building new cultural scenes; Family, school and society work together to create a new civilized ecology; Use technology to empower, carry out multi-level innovation in content, communication and experience, and promote new cultural formats.