Manifestations, Causes and Relief of Modern Educational Anxiety

Abstract

As the need for talent and the corresponding ability to improve it becomes more and more urgent in modern society, education has completed a shift from the simple transfer of knowledge to a key tool for fostering creativity, critical thinking, and adaptability. However, this transformation has also brought about a series of new challenges, the most prominent of which are the phenomena of educational anxiety and involution. This paper provides a theoretical analysis and elaboration of the data collected on the causes of educational anxiety and the dialectical view of educational anxiety as well as the corresponding measures to address it. It is found that educational anxiety mainly comes from parents' deviation in educational expectations and unidirectional pursuit of educational targets, the contradiction between unlimited educational competition and limited educational resources, and social transformation and development. The corresponding solutions are that parents should take a dialectical view of education anxiety and set up a correct view of education; education-related bodies should promote the reform of the education evaluation system to promote the all-round development of students; and government departments should create a favorable environment for education and improve the family education guidance service system. The current education should focus on individual students, get rid of utilitarianism as the mainstream of test-based education, promote diversified quality education practices, and maximize the relief of parents' educational anxiety.