In recent years, research travel is a form of education that has gradually emerged and become popular in the voice of quality education. It is right to encourage students to go out of school and get in touch with society and nature. But for research travel, is it more important to "travel" or "study"? What kind of organization should be dominant? Is the quality and level of the research tutor up to standard? How to evaluate its educational value? It is some problems exposed by the rapidly developing research and travel industry.
In my opinion, research travel, whether led by travel agencies, schools or off-campus educational institutions, is essentially an educational method, which should ultimately achieve a certain educational purpose and should belong to the education industry rather than the tourism industry. Compared with general student group travel activities, research travel pays more attention to "learning", learning through experience, learning through practice and learning through mutual cooperation. To achieve certain educational value, we must set teaching objectives before class. Research instructors are also different from tour guides in general. They should have enthusiastic educational feelings, master the skills of guiding students to explore and learn, and know how to ensure safety when leading students to go out for activities.
At present, most of the so-called study tours are led by travel agencies. Because of the advantages of tourism-related service resources, it is easy to take students to complete a trip, but there are a lot of trips that only "swim" but not "learn". As a student, I will be very happy to participate in this new group activity with my classmates. As teachers and parents, we must consider more. What did the students learn and gain during this trip? Standardization of study tour must not be a problem that can be solved by one industry in the tourism industry. Why did the Ministry of Education jointly issue "Opinions on Promoting Study Travel for Primary and Secondary School Students", suggesting that study travel should be led by the Ministry of Education and cannot be separated from the support and cooperation of other government departments? For example, the realization of the educational value of studying travel can't be completed only by the travel agency's own route design or scenic spot introduction, and it must be integrated with advanced educational concepts and technologies, requiring the participation or even leadership of educational experts.
For example, Beijing Boda Weiming Lexing Education Technology Co., Ltd. is such an educational institution that pays attention to educational value and is rich in educational resources. The company is controlled by Peking University. Relying on the educational resources of Peking University, professional academic institutions such as quality education research institute, curriculum committee, academic committee, expert committee and training college have been established. And a team of senior education experts will conduct the research and development of research travel courses to form a perfect curriculum system. Highlight the educational value of study tour, pay attention to ethics and safety in the implementation of study tour courses, and have a high-level teaching team with rich experience in implementation, so that students who participate in study tour can think, gain something, feel something and achieve something.