Questionnaire

 

I asked over 50 parents of children aged 5-12 living in Reading, UK to complete the questionnaire.
I hope to use the questionnaire to understand their views on children's art extracurricular courses, as well as their views on Chinese and Western art education.

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A variety of children's extra curricular art training courses have sprung up in China and online. Despite the breadth and richness of the curriculum, the children's work is surprisingly. Any type of knowledge or skill must be developed with an understanding of children's age characteristics and developmental patterns (Shuang, W., Lintao, W., & Qing, L. 2018). Encourage children's inventiveness and creativity while fostering their habit of observation in order to keep them interested in painting. Parents are also pleased with their children's growth because it allows them to help them better master painting techniques and raise the quality of their painting. Most Chinese parents send their kids to extra courses after school because they think they can't lose from the start, which is a real "spoon-feeding" education (Wang, X. N. , & Guckin, C. M. .2021). In recent years, due to the restrictions of the epidemic, online education has also developed rapidly, and art online education has also become popular. Through the questionnaire survey of local Chinese families in the UK, I found that when Chinese parents in the UK consider their children's art education, Although they do not reject online art education and believe that it is more free from geographical restrictions, there are also obvious drawbacks, such as lack of interactivity.

 

In addition, when it comes to art education, they are more inclined to combine Chinese training techniques with Western ideas to stimulate children's imagination. This kind of art education combining Chinese and Western is more acceptable for these Chinese parents who live in the UK. So they find it is difficult to get Art classes for their children in the UK. Their children are not leaning more skills when they take part in some local art events. At the same time, they do not like the traditional Chinese education, there are too many rules will restrict the personalized development of children.