The State Of Atr Education In The Rural The Strategy Of Its Reforming And Deve Loping

This research, through qualitative interviews with art teachers and students of rural schools of northwestern Hunan and qualitative investigation on the exercitation and job intention of graduates of the art education department of two teachers colleges as well as text analysis of relevant reports and studies, gives and ocular picture of art teacher's experience and helplessness of the current situation of rural middle schools' art education as well as the attitudes, opinions and appraising of society, schools and students toward art education, analyses the interact of art education with rural reality, and probes into the particularity of art education in the rural areas.The findings of the research are the following.First, influenced by the ideas that regard cities as political, economic, cultural and talents centres, various kinds of textbooks, curricula reform research of art education and curricula reform itself are closer to the life of urban students than to the life of rural students in the contents of art education.Second, because of the social reality and the current education situation, education behavior of the rural middle schools is becoming increasingly utilitarian. On one hand, because the society has the greatest esteem for the exam-oriented education, art lessons have drawn little attention of schools, parents and students, which makes art lessons something ornamental, and it is generally considered that art lessons are not essential and it makes little difference whether to have them or not.Third, there is little investment and almost no learning utensils in art education, which makes it impossible for most students to practice art skills and hard to meet the basic needs of classroom teaching. Some schools even don't have enough textbooks for all the students, causing great difficulty in classroom teaching of art lessons.