Research on the Teaching Reform of Guizhou’s Environmental Design Major in the Context of Minority Cultures

Abstract

Environmental design majors should actively innovate the teaching mode to adapt to the changes in technological development and social demand. Starting from the three principles of environmental design teaching reform and combining with the cultural background of Guizhou ethnic minorities, this paper puts forward a teaching reform plan for environmental design majors to optimize and innovate the teaching modes of the three core courses of drawing, color and composition. Then, three primary indicators and 15 secondary indicators are selected to construct the evaluation index system for teaching reform in environmental design specialization. Using the hierarchical analysis method and the entropy weight method, we constructed the judgment matrix and calculated the relative and global weights of the indicators. After the model construction is completed, the effect of reforming environmental design teaching at a university in Guizhou will be evaluated. After the teaching reform, the comprehensive score of the teaching evaluation of the environmental design program was 89.88 points, which is an excellent level. Among them, student quality, teacher ability, and teaching environment are 74.5544, 11.5804, and 3.7466 points, respectively. By analyzing the pre- and post-test data of the seven dimensions of students’ artistic creativity reflected by their works and the overall data using the two paired samples t-test, it was concluded that there were significant differences between the pre- and post-tests of the seven dimensions of students’ appropriateness, novelty, technicality, aesthetics, imaginative, ideological, and comprehensive impression. The level of students’ artistic creativity in environmental design reflected through their works has significantly improved, which proves that the teaching reform is effective. This paper provides new ideas and methods for the innovation of education and teaching environmental design majors.