Contemporary Interior Design Education

Interior design is one of the activities that mankind combine for the sake of creating and embellishing the environment which they live in. It is the continuity and penetration of architecture design; furthermore, interior design is the recreation of the indoor area and natural environment. It is a newly arisen edge of science based on the study of modern environment. Its design includes the aspects of social environment, natural environment and artificial environment. Interior design education is a kind of value education, and also a kind of way to inheriting history. It's an approach to combining both literary and science in order to create a new design method.Through investigation of certain universities, we acquainted ourselves of education courses and method in interior design program, drew lessons from the foreign advanced experience, synthesized induce method and illustration method to reflect on the best theory in interior design education. This dissertation primarily studied the developing course of interior design, the main factor composed in interior design education, and together with its curricula, teaching materials, teaching evaluation and teaching environment in interior design education. At the end of the dissertation, the author has discussed the education principle and the way to reforming and developing in contemporary interior design education.First, this dissertation introduced the endless, gradual history of Chinese interior design with deep cultural accumulation. Then with the introduction of the interior design history of Japan, the United States and Germany, etc., it pointed out their contribution to human interior design. It also explained that modern design education has neither national boundary nor fixed international standard or norm. Thus it is necessary for our country to keep up with the development and diversification of society, economy and market so as to establish an alternate, scientific and practical modern interior design education system according to one's own national conditions.Second, it studied the main factors in interior design education, pointed out that teacher is a dominant character in the course, and discussed the quality and ability that a teacher of interior design should possess. It also put forward that student is the center of the interior design education, and discussed the training way of developing their mental characters and professional abilities.Thirdly, it made certain discussions on the course and teaching materials of interior design education. Regarding a few schools of the domestic as well as abroad, we adopted the enumeration method analysing the date that has been collected. Then we put forward suggestions on the improvement of the course and teaching materials of interior design education. According to the investigations, we made the typical professional courses of interior design education. This dissertation also studied the basic courses that must be offered in interior design education. Relating the main contents in teaching evaluation together with the curricular evaluation in the interior design of the United States, we put forward the curricular evaluation method in our country, gave some suggestions on the norm of the curricular in interior design education.Fourthly, this dissertation told us the role of environment in interior design education played in prompting students' study enthusiasm in learning professional skills. It also does a lot of good to their mental development. The school administration must improve the environment in interior design education through the way of renovating the teaching environment and provide various kinds of educational aids to create fine disciplines in class and in school as well.At the end of the article, the author pointed out the key problems that still remained in interior design education and tried to make some suggestions to the solution. It explored the reform of Chinese interior design education from 10 aspects: setting up the education theory that meets the development of era; stren...