The Influences of Shadow Education

1 The Influences on the Pupils

The findings of questionnaire has indicated that shadow education have the certain effect on the pupils，who have made progress by accepting shadow education.As mentioned before，the content of shadow education is totally same as the mainstream.Besides，when comes to the question，how do you feel after you attending shadow education，68.8% of them feel happy and contented only 3.3% of them are terrible.Additionally，71.5% of them think if they didn’t get shadow education，they can still make progress.It is suggested that shadow education can supply a psychological relief for the pupils.

The pupils also depict that they can answer the questions in the mainstream school mire quickly and accurately after shadow education.Because in shadow education，the contents will be taught in the mainstream class can be previewed and pretaught in shadow education.The pupils can be more confident of and pleased with their study.These are the positive influences of shadow education on pupils but is superficial.Because there are a lot of underlying negative effects behind them.

After interviewing the mainstream teachers，it can be concluded that the pupils’ attitude to the process of obtaining knowledge has changed a lot.The means of imparting knowledge in shadow education is extremely different from that in mainstream education.Teachers in shadow education only show the results and facts directly to the pupils then let pupils recite these results and facts.Later on，teachers will assign oceans of similar questions and homework to pupils in order to repeat and strengthen pupils’ memory of these.In this case，though pupils “really” obtain something from shadow education，actually they just get some skills to face with the examination.

When interviewing，mainstream teachers give affirmation that the pupils take more active in answering the questions.However，they also point out the hazards shadow education gives rise to，especially in the maths.Sometimes，when teacher just give a situation setting to introduce the contents will learn，some pupils can directly shout out the results and the facts of the contents.They even hope teachers not to give situation setting and introduction but directly jump into the stage of exercise.The present social morbid psychology haste-in-progress are strengthened among the pupils silently.They just pursue the accurate consequences of question instead of exploring it by themselves.This phenomenon implies that shadow education obliterates the pupils’ desire for knowledge and curiosity about learning.What’s worse，it limits the exploration of the creativity and logicality，which will do a further harm to their development.

Generally speaking，the status quo of? “Exercise Strategy” is contrary to the target of? “Quality Education” .The intensity and same contents of shadow education place a greater pressure on pupils and exploit their space for free development of interests and all-around development.If shadow education is let alone，the present morbid social psychology--haste in progress will be strengthened to some extents.

2 The Influences on the Mainstream Schooling

The prosperity of shadow education can promote the increase of employment without any doubt，especially for the retired teachers.However，its high salary and great profit also attract some in-service mainstream teachers to join in this tide.According to the survey about the profession of teachers in shadow education，it is showed that 34% of them are some teachers in the mainstream school.Most of them choose to enter the tutoring is the high salary.Though per capital income has been increased generously，the rising price of goods has suspended the increase of income，which leads to the decrease of affordability.Besides，the salary of mainstream teachers hasn’t got huge promotion，they have more difficulties supporting their families.This causes them to change their positions or alert to shadow education.

These teachers sometimes even set up the tutoring class on holiday and require their students to participate in it.In order to lure more students，they will reduce the volume of knowledge in the mainstream class，instead，put these reduced knowledge in their tutoring class，which certainly will damage the order of mainstream education.What’s worse，these teachers will leave a negative impression on the pupils and make them hostile to their future teachers，this attitude will ruin pupils’ further study.

Teachers setting up private tutoring can’t cover all of the mainstream teachers.Some of mainstream teachers complain that they cannot grasp the process of the mainstream class because students enter different tutoring organizations，in these organizations，the tutors have taught pupils ahead of the in-school process，which results in the various knowledge needs of pupils in mainstream class.On the side，shadow education account for most of pupils’ spare time that pupils don’t have enough time to have a rest but can’t stop feeling sleepy and even falling asleep in the mainstream class.Based on what have mentioned，shadow education has distorted the normal teaching of mainstream school.

作者簡介

徐煒娟（1998—），女，漢族，河北省邯鄲市人，本科在讀，中國地質大學（北京），教育學和外國語言文學。