In order to further inherit the excellent traditional Chinese culture and enrich and expand campus culture, the Ministry of Education has introduced a number of measures in recent years to promote calligraphy into campuses and classrooms. In 2013, the " Guidance Outline for Calligraphy Education in Primary and Secondary Schools " was promulgated, requiring the comprehensive development of calligraphy education in primary and secondary schools across the country; in 2015, the Ministry of Education began to pilot the implementation of the " Assessment Method for the Artistic Quality of Primary and Secondary School Students ", which stipulated that "calligraphy specialties "10 points added to students"; in 2021, the Ministry of Education established the Chinese Calligraphy Education Steering Committee to deepen the reform of Chinese calligraphy education, further inherit and develop China's excellent traditional culture, enrich and expand campus culture, and promote Chinese calligraphy into campuses and classrooms.
The author visited and learned that in recent years Dongguan primary and secondary schools have carried out various forms of calligraphy education to promote "calligraphy into campus". Faced with the current difficult problems in calligraphy education, Dongguan seeks to solve them by promoting teaching through competitions and exhibitions, creating a good atmosphere and achieving obvious results.
Schools carry out various forms of calligraphy education
In recent years, with the continuous deepening of the work of "calligraphy into campus", Dongguan City calligraphy education in primary and secondary schools has developed vigorously. The author visited and found that many primary and secondary schools in Dongguan City have carried out various forms of calligraphy education. With classroom education as the core, they offer one calligraphy class per week. Taking the second classroom club activities as the starting point, they organize calligraphy exhibitions and competitions to influence and influence calligraphy. Drive most students to actively participate in calligraphy learning.
"Students, what we are writing today is " Ritual Vessel Stele ". This is a very artistic work of calligraphy, which has always been regarded as the most important standard of official script..." A few days ago, in Liaobu Shibu Primary School In the soft-pen calligraphy classroom, Zhou Shangjin, a member of Chinese Calligraphers Association and calligraphy teacher, introduced the writing style of official script to the students, and then the students carefully wrote. In the hard-pen calligraphy classroom on the other side, the students sit upright and start writing seriously from basic strokes. On the podium, the fourteen characters "Write the first stroke of life well, the first step to become a solid person" encourage the students to write well in their hands. of every transaction.
It is reported that Shibu Primary School has been carrying out calligraphy education practice for more than ten years, and every student must practice calligraphy. In addition to 15 minutes of practice every day, the school also offers calligraphy popularization classes and calligraphy improvement classes. Each class has a writing instruction class taught by a full-time calligraphy teacher every week. In the management of the classroom teaching process, teachers' calligraphy education has plans, lesson plans, and assignments, research activities are recorded, and there are summaries, evaluations, and inspections at the end of the period. The relevant information is included in the quantitative evaluation of outstanding teams and model teachers.
In addition to regular calligraphy course training, some schools attach great importance to the creation of a calligraphy atmosphere. The author recently came to Qianjin Primary School in Houjie Town and felt the rich educational atmosphere of ink. The Chinese calligraphy theme walls on campus and teaching buildings feature famous calligraphers, seal cutting culture, and the evolution history of calligraphy. They display the masterpieces of famous calligraphers from past dynasties, inherit civilization with classics, and cultivate sentiments with calligraphy. There are also excellent works created by students in the calligraphy exhibition hall. The school also organizes outstanding students to participate in calligraphy competitions in the town for training every semester. This creates an atmosphere of "everyone writes well" in the class and cultivates a group of writing backbones so that each student can constantly pursue new goals. Chen Jianxiong, a full-time calligraphy teacher at Qianjin Primary School in Houjie Town, said: “The creation of a calligraphy atmosphere is conducive to students’ psychological identification and higher participation in various calligraphy activities. It also beautifies the campus and improves the sense of campus culture. Artistic taste."
Practical measures to solve difficult problems in calligraphy education
Talking about the difficult problems in implementing calligraphy education, Zhou Shangjin said frankly: "The lack of teachers, insufficient classes, and the absence of unified teaching materials are the main problems in calligraphy education in primary and secondary schools.On the one hand, there is still a lack of theoretical research on calligraphy teaching in primary and secondary schools, and there are many gaps, such as "cases of calligraphy classroom teaching in primary and secondary schools", or systematic theoretical research works on calligraphy teachers' use of books, which are basically difficult to read in society. On the other hand, teachers generally lack teaching experience and professional skills. Many calligraphy teachers are not from professional classes. They are part-time teachers from art, Chinese and other courses. There is also very little relevant teacher training, which often leads to insufficient teaching results. As expected. "
During the author's visit, when the calligraphy teachers of some schools introduced their calligraphy teaching experience, they said that the school has achieved good results by using "calligraphy classes need to explore the teaching form and connotation".
"The characteristics of calligraphy education must be established. , the key is to have a complete curriculum system, and the training of 'people' is the key. "Chen Xiao, a member of the Chinese Calligraphers Association and a calligraphy teacher at Humen Nanzha Primary School, has a deep understanding of calligraphy education. While establishing the characteristics of calligraphy education, Humen Nanzha Primary School began to work hard on the curriculum. In order to give full play to the teachers' abilities, Wisdom, the school organizes teachers to research and develop school-based teaching materials "Effective Training of Regular Script Knots" and "Selected Poems of Nanzha Past Dynasties - Collection of Calligraphy Works of Nanzha Primary School". The teaching materials not only include teaching knowledge of calligraphy skills, but also introduce common knowledge of calligraphy. , there are also classic stories of calligraphers, which are very practical and interesting.
How to effectively carry out calligraphy teaching? Chen Xiao suggested that in actual teaching, we should pay attention to explanations while teaching calligraphy techniques. Calligraphy culture, for example, when talking about a certain calligrapher, in addition to his calligraphy art, you can also talk about his life story and the background of the era, which will make the content three-dimensional and vivid.
"Promote education through competition." , Promote teaching through exhibition", so that every student has the opportunity to excel. After years of practice, Dongguan City has also created a series of brand competitions and built a display platform, which has become a powerful measure to promote calligraphy education.
Dongguan City Calligraphers Association Huang Pingong, the vice president and secretary-general of the association, said: "The Dongguan Calligraphers Association will continue to successfully organize the ' Dongguan Bank Cup' Dongguan primary and secondary school students calligraphy competition, 'Chang'an Hall Award' city-wide youth calligraphy on-site competition, and 'Zhang Mu Cup' Permanent brand activities such as the Dongguan Youth Calligraphy and Painting Live Contest and the China Life Cup Dongguan Youth Calligraphy and Painting Competition. In the future, a series of calligraphy exhibitions, competitions and forums will be organized and planned to make due contributions to cultivating more new calligraphy forces in the Dongguan calligraphy circle. "
The 4th "Dongguan Bank Cup" Dongguan City Primary and Secondary School Calligraphy Competition is currently in hot demand.
Currently, the 4th "Dongguan Bank Cup" is co-sponsored by the Dongguan All-Media Communication Center of the Yangcheng Evening News and the Dongguan Calligraphers Association, and is the title sponsor of the Dongguan Bank. The "Bank Cup" Dongguan primary and secondary school students' calligraphy competition has launched a call for submissions. The competition, with the theme of "Rejuvenation of a strong country, I strive to be a good boy in the new era, ", is soliciting submissions from primary school, junior high school and high school students in Dongguan City, aiming to promote inheritance While promoting the excellent traditional culture of the Chinese nation, it guides young students to carry forward the revolutionary spirit, show responsibility on the road to the rejuvenation of a strong country, and gathers strong spiritual power to move forward.
It is understood that the "Dongguan Bank Cup" Dongguan Primary and Secondary School Calligraphy Competition has been successfully held for three times. Participants are located in various towns and streets in Dongguan. The calligraphy skills of the contestants are generally high. Excellent works continue to emerge in the finals, and they have become recognized by the industry as the primary and secondary school students. High-level calligraphy competition. As the competition's influence gradually expands, more students are participating in the study of excellent traditional culture and playing an active role in promoting calligraphy education.
Call for submissions is from now until July 31, 2022. Received address: Yangcheng Evening News, No. 203, Building 5, Hengda Huafu, Guancheng District, Dongguan City, Postcode: 523000, Contact person: Miss Zhou, 13580978125; Miss Deng, 18675387022. (Text/Photo by Yao Ziting/Interviewee)
Source | Yangcheng Evening News•Yangcheng School
editor | Zhang Degang
