For example, the "rice harvest" course is hot in the autumn harvest season, the price of individual nature education bases near Chengdu reaches 800 per day. With the arrival of winter vacation, some nature education bases have launched the "Winter Camp" project. The highest-end charge for a camp activity that lasts for five days and a family of three has exceeded 10,000 yuan. This limits the number of families of students willing to participate in nature education.
courses are not cheap, but the quality of courses is not necessarily high. Some parents said that many institutions that claim to be nature education have a variety of propaganda slogans, but the course content is only farm picking and natural sightseeing, which is more like traveling than learning. "I feel that it is not much different from taking my children out to play."
Industry suggests that the course setting must be scientific. The interviewed senior nature education practitioners believe that the nature education courses provided by social institutions are of varying quality, the market is not standardized enough, and the educational forms are often fragmented and lack systematicity and continuity. There are also many shortcomings in concept construction, talent training, and curriculum design. Although some nature education practitioners are passionate about nature, their qualities and experience are uneven, and some lack the knowledge and skills required for practice. Affected by the COVID-19 epidemic, many natural education activities and courses have been cancelled, and the industry's profitability has declined, resulting in unstable work for practitioners. This puts a test on the cultivation of internal strength in the nature education industry.
partially irregular nature education courses also convey incorrect values. It is understood that in the process of "experience" and "studying" animals and plants, some nature education courses indulge students in treating them roughly, such as picking flowers and breaking branches at will, bringing their own grains to lure birds out of the forest to attract natural enemies, etc., which interferes with the living environment of wild animals and plants. (For more latest news, please see "Guangxi Education Platform" website zwx.eadce.com/gyy/index.html?id=2698 to learn about it)