China Academic Seminar on Cultivating Talents for Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection was held in Beijing

On July 4, 2017, an academic seminar on cultivating talents for intangible cultural heritage protection in China hosted by China Academy of Art and China Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection Center was held in Beijing.

Chen Tong, Director of the Intangible Cultural Heritage Department of the Ministry of Culture, Wan Lijun, Deputy Director of the Department of Physical Education, Health and Art Education of the Ministry of Education, Lu Pintian, Executive Vice President and Dean of the Graduate School of the China Academy of Art, Vice President of the China Academy of Art and China Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection Center Wang Fuzhou, Deputy Director of the China Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection Center, Luo Wei, Executive Deputy Director of the China Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection Center, Liang Bin, Director of the UNESCO Asia-Pacific International Training Center for Intangible Cultural Heritage, and other leaders attended the meeting.

Guests at the meeting also included Ji Xigui and other representative inheritors of representative national-level intangible cultural heritage projects, experts and scholars, and teachers and students representatives of relevant majors.

On-site of the academic seminar on talent training for intangible cultural heritage protection in China

The protection of intangible cultural heritage (hereinafter referred to as "intangible cultural heritage") is to ensure its vitality and achieve sustainable inheritance and development.

As the inheritor of intangible cultural heritage carriers, he grasps and carries the knowledge and skills of intangible cultural heritage, and also shoulders the important task of carrying out inheritance work and cultivating successor talents.

On the basis of the traditional "teachers lead apprentices" inheritance method, incorporating inheritance into the modern education system and cultivating inheritors of the new era with both theoretical knowledge and superb skills is a new proposition put forward by the development of the times for the cultivation of intangible cultural heritage talents, and it is also an urgent need for inheritance and development.

At the seminar, participants actively discussed issues and countermeasures for cultivating intangible cultural heritage protection talents.

Lu Pintian, Executive Vice President and Dean of the Graduate School of China Academy of Art, introduced the cultivation of intangible cultural heritage protection talents at China Academy of Art

At the meeting, Lu Pintian, executive vice president and president of the graduate school of China Academy of Art, systematically introduced the relevant situation of the cultivation of intangible cultural heritage talents at China Academy of Art.

President Lu pointed out that the cultivation of intangible cultural heritage talents at the China Academy of Art mainly consists of short-term training for practitioners carried out by the China Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection Center, enterprise technical education through school-enterprise cooperation, and postgraduate academic education carried out by graduate schools.

Over the years, relying on the strong faculty of China Academy of Art and the professional strength of China Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection Center and the UNESCO Asia-Pacific Intangible Cultural Heritage International Training Center, the Graduate School, as an implementing institution of art education, has actively pioneered and innovated, vigorously carried out postgraduate academic education and training in intangible cultural heritage, and achieved remarkable results.

In terms of training goals, China Academy of Art conducts direction division and target positioning, accurately focusing on the training of three types of talents: first, academic doctoral and master's students in the research direction of intangible cultural heritage protection, focusing on cultivating their theoretical research capabilities by writing degree thesis; Second, Master of Arts in both directions of protection practice and traditional skills.

The former focuses on cultivating their practical ability to carry out protection and management work in accordance with national policies, and the latter focuses on cultivating their creative ability to inherit traditional skills; Third, the trainees of the training class, mainly aimed at the on-the-job personnel of the national intangible cultural heritage protection system, quickly improve their management level in a short time by means of classroom learning and investigation and exchange.

In terms of course structure and teaching methods, China Academy of Art attaches great importance to the close integration of theory and practice, classroom and on-site, courses and topics, and lectures and practical exercises.

It requires students to not only learn and master the basic theories involved in intangible cultural heritage, but also master laws, regulations, principles and policies in professional fields, and also gain an in-depth understanding of the current status and cutting-edge trends of intangible cultural heritage practice through field visits, investigations and interviews, and participation in projects.

Since taking the lead in cultivating senior talents such as masters and doctoral degrees in the country in 2007, China Academy of Art has also used its academic resource advantages and faculty advantages to continuously innovate methods for cultivating intangible cultural heritage talents.

It is the first to hire representative inheritors of national intangible cultural heritage projects and masters of arts and crafts as postgraduate tutors.

This move has effectively incorporated one-on-one master-apprentice transfer into the modern academic education system, and has been welcomed by the society and widely concerned by the industry.

Relying on its outstanding social practice and academic research, China Academy of Art has gradually formed a system and developed characteristics in exploring a variety of ways to cultivate intangible cultural heritage talents and carrying out and improving the protection and training of intangible cultural heritage inheritors.

Chen Tong, Director of the Intangible Cultural Heritage Department of the Ministry of Culture, attended the seminar

Wan Lijun, deputy director of the Department of Physical Education, Health and Art Education of the Ministry of Education, attended the seminar

At the seminar, participants spoke highly of the educational concept and teaching practice of cultivating intangible cultural heritage protection talents carried out by China Art Research Institute.

Chen Tong, director of the Intangible Cultural Heritage Department of the Ministry of Culture, said at the meeting that the core content of the research and training plan for intangible cultural heritage inheritors in China being jointly carried out by the Ministry of Culture and the Ministry of Education is to enable the inheritors to increase their education, strengthen their foundation, and broaden their horizons.

It is necessary for inheritors to strengthen their cultural confidence and their understanding of culture when learning crafts, so that they can be more proactive and conscious in inheriting traditional culture.

Wan Lijun, deputy director of the Department of Physical Education, Health and Art Education of the Ministry of Education, introduced the overall development trend of art education in my country in recent years, and believed that the educational practice of China Academy of Art, especially in terms of the positioning of schools in intangible cultural heritage disciplines, teaching content setting and the construction of a teaching team, has made good explorations and provided important reference for solving key issues such as subject positioning in the future.

Li Rongqi, a researcher at China Academy of Art, delivered a speech at the meeting.

Li Bosheng, representative inheritor of the national intangible cultural heritage project Jade Carving (Beijing Jade Carving), delivered a speech at the meeting.

Gan Erke, the representative inheritor of the national intangible cultural heritage project lacquer painting skills (Huizhou lacquer painting skills), spoke at the meeting

Lin Jifu, a professor at the Central University for Nationalities, spoke at the meeting

Experts, scholars and inheritors and tutors attending the meeting expressed their views based on their own practices in cultivating intangible cultural heritage talents, and put forward suggestions from multiple perspectives such as educating people, passing on skills, and teaching.

Graduates of relevant majors and students also exchanged their learning experiences at the meeting.

Participants agreed that this seminar will play an important role in carefully summarizing the educational concepts and teaching practical experience of cultivating intangible cultural heritage talents, drawing opinions and suggestions from other units and administrative guidance departments, and promoting the establishment of a training model for intangible cultural heritage talents that is compatible with theory and practice.

The results of the meeting will also promote the China Academy of Art to further build a leading intangible cultural heritage talent training system and improve the level of intangible cultural heritage protection and inheritance in my country.