Art Education and Teaching from the Perspective of Chinese Mass Higher Education

Abstract

For the reason of enrollment expansion for years, the scale of higher education in China has been enlarged rapidly. It brings about a series of problems including bad schooling conditions, not enough teaching staff, declining quality of teaching and greater employment pressure. The theoretical study on the development of Chinese higher education also lags behind comparatively. This paper analyzes the main aspects changed in the educational concepts of Chinese art colleges and universities and summarizes several problems currently existing in the art education and teaching in Chinese higher education. It indicates that for the art education in Chinese colleges and universities, the features of art and various orientations as well as the law of development shall be adequately respected and followed and a teaching quality evaluation system shall be established. It additionally indicates that the art education shall return to the talent training mode which focuses on the elite education to build the platform for training senior artistic professionals.