"The dance class asks you to pay 740 yuan to participate in the recording of TV programs. You also have to rent clothes, make-up at your own expense, take care of your own fare and registration fee. As long as you participate in the program, everyone has a certificate of merit. Such recording or competition happens almost every year. I don't know the meaning?" Make complaints about primary school students, a pupil of Sichuan Chengdu, such a "Tucao" art training institutions. "Although the teacher said it was voluntary, everyone understood it privately." On the one hand, there is "frequent charging" and on the other hand, there is "tight publicity". "In the days to come, parents should really pay close attention. Children should not only firmly grasp the" language and number ", but also understand and deeply study music, art and sports. Entering the high school entrance examination of aesthetic education in 2022 and mastering an artistic specialty is to seize the first opportunity!" A public advertisement of a parent-child International Art Center familiar with the "heart knot" of parents plays a "test card" to attract attention. After the implementation of the "double reduction" policy, students bid farewell to discipline training on weekends and holidays, and art non discipline training began to be popular in many places. However, malicious price increases, exaggerated marketing and anxiety making make this "heat" likely to go astray - the weekends and holidays just "recovered" are clearly to enable students to return to interest and "develop five education simultaneously", but there is a new "rush". Obviously, the current "art training fever" needs "cold thinking": if you want to cultivate an art specialty, how should parents and students make rational choices? The reporter had a dialogue with Guo Shengjian, a professor of Hunan Normal University and vice chairman of the National College Aesthetic Education Teaching Steering Committee. Why? From "utilitarian leading" to "interest leading" ■ observation In the past winter vacation, "unlocking an art" has become the choice of many parents and students. According to a survey conducted by Guangzhou Daily, after the "double reduction", more than 30% of parents have increased demand for quality training, among which art training is the most, accounting for 62.5%. According to relevant media reports, many comprehensive training institutions in Nanjing have increased winter vacation classes. The person in charge of a comprehensive training in sports, science and technology and art in Baoshan, Shanghai, also said that "after the 'double reduction', all classrooms are filled with courses every weekend" and "the winter vacation class has been filled one month before the holiday". ■ dialogue Reporter: the "double reduction" policy makes many restrictive provisions on Discipline Training in primary and secondary schools. Some people believe that non Discipline Training faces new development space. In your opinion, with the further deepening of the "double reduction" policy, what changes or development opportunities are facing the art training for primary and secondary school students? Guo Shengjian: I have noticed the division of disciplinary and non disciplinary training in the "double reduction" policy. In fact, music and art are also "disciplines", but for a long time, students have participated in the training of intellectual education courses such as Chinese, history, mathematics, chemistry and so on. The purpose is almost to improve the examination results, which not only promotes the examination oriented education, but also leads to the aggravation of students' academic burden. For the huge off campus training market, most of the previous art training was prepared for students who will take the entrance examination of art major in the future. Therefore, "double reduction" provides a development opportunity for universal art training in primary and secondary schools for everyone: first, more and more students will have time to choose to participate in art training according to their own interests; Second, more and more training institutions may shift from discipline training to non discipline training; Third, with the gradual increase of popular art literacy training, utilitarian examination oriented training may also increase. For example, after the introduction of the "double reduction" policy, it is said on the Internet that the price of some brands of pianos immediately increased, which is by no means a good omen. There must be no such situation: the repetition of academic burden has become a "double" of academic burden and economic burden. ■ observation Ms. Wang, who lives in Xicheng, Beijing, has a child in the second grade of primary school this year. She "didn't worry less" and didn't spend less money for the art grade examination. "A piano lesson costs 400 yuan. Dance has reached CET-4 this year. Painting also needs to be tested. It's all money." "On the first day of this year, my daughter didn't have time to learn dance because she was nervous about her study. She danced from the kindergarten class to grade 5 and got to grade 8. Although she liked dancing, she had to train, buy grade clothes and pay money before each grade examination. I don't know if these certificates will help her in junior and senior high school?" A Shandong parent on the headline also expressed confusion. ■ dialogue Reporter: many students, especially urban students with better family conditions, have studied one or two art specialties in primary school and even participated in the grade examination. However, many people may give up because of academic pressure in the senior grade of primary school and after middle school. After the discipline training is reduced, students' extracurricular time is "released" to a certain extent. Do you think the art "grade examination fever" will emerge? Guo Shengjian: in fact, the reason for giving up is not only the increase of academic pressure, but also the problem of art training itself. Many students give up art learning outside school because they can't stand professional and technical boring skill training and utilitarian art grade examination. Based on the above reasons, I don't think the art "grade examination fever" will emerge. First, the Ministry of education has repeatedly clarified and stressed that all kinds of social art grading examination or competition should not be used as the evaluation index of school aesthetic education. The evaluation of school aesthetic education does not recognize the results of art grading examination, which means that the road of art grading examination as a means of utilitarian pursuit and exam oriented education has actually been blocked in terms of system; Second, in recent years, the utilitarian consciousness of parents has gradually weakened. Before, there were fewer and fewer parents who let their children participate in social art training in order to take the grade examination, which is also the inevitable result of the complete decoupling between the grade examination and the entrance examination; Third, if training institutions blindly use the grade examination to attract and consolidate students, rather than trying to improve art teaching and make students really like art learning, they can't go far. In fact, the art grading examination itself is not a bad thing. If only as a means to stimulate students' interest in learning and test the learning effect, the grade examination is entirely possible. However, as a utilitarian goal, the content, form and goal of art training are all for the grade examination, which leads to the misunderstanding that art learning is "kidnapped" by the grade examination, and even frees parents and students from the discipline training, and the reduced academic burden is transferred to the art training aiming at the grade examination, This is harmful to both art education and students' physical and mental health. How to learn better? Raise the entry threshold and return to the education standard ■ observation "At that time, the teacher of the training school said that as long as we got three or four hundred points in the culture course, we could read an art undergraduate course. We studied from senior two to senior three for nearly two years. Each training cost nearly 60000 yuan. In the last month, we also received the so-called 'examination fee' 1000 yuan. Finally, my daughter told me that learning the media didn't reduce the score and spent so much money in vain." Recently, on the message board of the government of a provincial capital city in the central region, some parents "accused" art training institutions of false publicity and arbitrary charges. In view of the prominent problems such as false or exaggerated publicity, malicious price increase, illegal dumping of class hours and so on, Tianjin, Zhejiang, Chengdu, Sichuan and other places have successively issued documents to stipulate the teachers, registered capital and training venues of art off campus training, and the Ministry of culture and tourism has also issued documents, Strictly regulate the publicity of out of school training and enrollment of culture and art. The Ministry of education, the national development and Reform Commission and the State Administration of market supervision deployed and carried out the special rectification of non disciplinary after-school training fees before and after the last winter vacation, found 52 malicious price increase institutions, and issued an announcement to prohibit unfair competition by means of fictitious originals, false discounts and false publicity. ■ dialogue Reporter: after the introduction of the "double reduction" policy, various localities have put forward a number of rectification measures for the chaos of non subject extracurricular training. What aspects do you think art training should be further standardized? Guo Shengjian: in recent years, there has been a lot of chaos in art training. It can be seen from the teaching videos containing all kinds of common sense errors circulated on the Internet and the reports of mutual connection between training institutions and college teachers in the art college entrance examination. The art training market really needs to be standardized. How to standardize the art training market, the "double reduction" opinion puts forward the overall requirements, that is, "for non discipline training institutions, all localities should distinguish between sports, culture and art, science and technology and other categories, clarify the corresponding competent departments, classify, formulate standards and strictly approve". I think we can start from the following aspects: first, clarify the access threshold of training institutions, including specific standards for software and hardware conditions such as teachers, venues, equipment and equipment, and the examination and approval unit should be the administrative department of education rather than the industrial and commercial administration or cultural department, because art training is an educational activity, which must meet the basic norms of education Follow the basic law of education; Second, the competent department should organize experts to develop the basic teaching norms or requirements of social art training, and take this as the basis to supervise the teaching behavior of art training institutions, focusing on the norms of teachers' ethics, as well as their professional and teaching level; Third, the administrative department of education and the price department should jointly formulate and strictly implement the charging standards, and immediately ban the training qualification of frauds that charge high fees on the grounds of "passing the examination". ■ observation "I can only take time to study at ordinary times. The winter vacation class is more professional, centralized and systematic, and the improvement will be a qualitative leap." This is the slogan of an art training institution. In fact, if children are exposed to art after class, on weekends and holidays, there are many opportunities. There are trusteeship courses provided by schools or relevant institutions, characteristic experience projects of social culture rooms and cultural museums, and many museums and youth activity centers are open to children. For example, Sichuan Province has issued relevant plans to encourage schools to cooperate with public cultural and art venues and literary and art troupes to set up aesthetic education courses, and encourage excellent literary and art workers to establish art studios in schools. ■ dialogue Reporter: what is the difference between the role of art course study in school and extracurricular art training? What do you think of the role of cultivating an artistic interest in the future development of young students? Guo Shengjian: the most obvious difference between school art curriculum learning and extracurricular art training is that school art curriculum learning is mainly basic literacy education for everyone, with the purpose of improving the artistic aesthetic literacy of all students; Extracurricular art training belongs to students' voluntary participation, mainly to meet students' personalized art learning needs. The opinions on Comprehensively Strengthening and improving school aesthetic education in the new era issued by the central office and the State Council Office proposed to cultivate students' one or two artistic specialties. To tell the truth, it is not easy to achieve such a goal if only relying on school art education. Therefore, the value and function of school art education and out of school art training are different. They should promote each other and complement each other. We look forward to "double reduction" to provide an opportunity for art training to get on track. Through social art training, we can cultivate and strengthen students' artistic interests and hobbies, and form one or two artistic specialties on this basis, which will accompany students throughout their life. I think that no matter what career the child will be engaged in in in the future, artistic interests and specialties can enrich the individual lifestyle, cultivate sentiment, moisten the soul, stimulate innovation and creativity, and improve the "happiness index". (outlook new era)