Insight into Practical Teaching in Rural Planning in Colleges Based on the “Rural Innovation Workshop”

Abstract

AbstractBased on demand and problem-oriented rural planning, this study proposes new requirements for rural planning education in colleges and universities.This study reflects on the problems and challenges of rural planning teaching and practice in colleges in China from the perspectives of experiential teaching and participatory planning theory. It takes an actual workshop case as its object of analysis to examine the effectiveness of a workshop-based experiential rural planning mode of teaching in response to the needs of rural construction.In this study, used Kolb’s analytical framework to classify the tasks and skills required in activities into four different learning processes: accommodation, divergence, assimilation and convergence. The feedback of students on the Rural Innovation Workshop mentions the improvement of all aspects of ability and indicates that individual comprehensive ability is improved in the process of practical participation in the workshop.