Author(s)

Tiantian Yu ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ School of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Wenzhou Polytechnic, Wenzhou, Zhejiang 325000, China

Corresponding Author

Tiantian Yu

ABSTRACT

As society's demand for interior design talents continues to increase, the traditional interior design curriculum system has problems such as being out of touch with industry needs and insufficient practical operational capabilities of students, and is in urgent need of reform. In order to effectively solve this problem, this paper proposes a curriculum reform plan for "Interior Design 1+X" that integrates "job, course and certificate", aiming to improve students' practical ability and employment competitiveness by combining industry job requirements, curriculum setting and professional qualification certification. The research methods include literature review, questionnaire survey, expert interview and field research. First, the gap between interior design curriculum and industry needs is analyzed, and the direction and goals of the reform are clarified. According to the requirements of the Interior Design 1+X certificate, the course framework has been redesigned to integrate knowledge in design, construction, and project management to ensure that the course content is highly consistent with industry standards. At the same time, during the teaching process, by combining theoretical learning with practice, students' operational capabilities are strengthened to ensure that students can master the skills and knowledge required in actual work. After the reform pilot is implemented, relevant data is collected by evaluating the feedback from students, teachers and enterprises. The results show that the reformed curriculum system has greatly improved students' practical ability, especially in the creativity and implementation of design plans. Students' operational skills have increased by 35% and course satisfaction has increased by 35%. More importantly, the student employment rate has also increased significantly after the reform, from 60% before the reform to 80%. In addition, the proportion of students obtaining 1+X vocational qualification certificates increases from 40% before the reform to 85%. To sum up, the curriculum reform based on the integration of "job, course and certificate" has effectively narrowed the gap between interior design education and industry needs, and cultivated more high-quality, compound talents that meet market needs.

KEYWORDS

Interior Design, Job-Course-Certification Integration, Curriculum Reform, Practical Ability

CITE THIS PAPER

Tiantian Yu, Curriculum Reform of Interior Design 1+X with Integration of "Job-Course-Certificate". Transactions on Comparative Education (2024) Vol. 6: 157-165. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/trance.2024.060622.

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