What is aesthetic education? What's the role?

Aesthetic education: education to cultivate students' ability to know, love and create beauty. Also known as aesthetic education or aesthetic education. Aesthetic education should be carried out through various arts and beautiful things in natural and social life. Aesthetic education through art is art education. Aesthetic education plays an important role in people's all-round development education.

Function of aesthetic education: Aesthetic education in socialist society serves the construction of socialist spiritual civilization and the cultivation of students' spiritual beauty and behavioral beauty. It infects the educated with the thoughts, feelings and activities of advanced figures reflected in beautiful things and artistic images in real life. It affects students' emotion, imagination, thought, will and character extensively and profoundly.

It can enrich the school's cultural and spiritual life, arouse students' emotional experience, help cultivate noble sentiments, improve socialist consciousness, motivate students to strive to realize socialist ideals and create all beautiful things.

Extended data:

Aesthetic education in socialist schools in China serves the construction of socialist spiritual civilization and the cultivation of students' spiritual beauty and behavioral beauty. Aesthetic education can promote students' all-round development in morality, intelligence and physique.

It can improve students' thoughts and develop students' moral sentiments; It can enrich students' knowledge and develop their intelligence. It can improve people's physical and mental health and improve the quality of exercise; It can inspire students to love labor, love working people and carry out creative work.

Another dimension change in the process of defining aesthetic education from narrow sense to broad sense is: from formal aesthetic education to substantive aesthetic education. The so-called "formal aesthetic education" refers to educational activities aimed at cultivating the aesthetic quality of the object (such as aesthetic ability, ability to appreciate beauty and create beauty, etc.). ).

On the other hand, "substantial aesthetic education" pursues the spiritual essence of aesthetic education through the above goals: the aesthetic taste of life and the aesthetic realm of education. It has become the core of modern aesthetic education to emphasize the promotion of aesthetic education to poetic life. In this way, the concept of aesthetic education should not only move from narrow sense to broad sense, but also realize the revolution from form to substance.

As we all know, beauty is powerful, and education without aesthetic education is also incomplete. Thousands of years ago, Confucius put forward "taking poetry, ceremony and music as the foundation", emphasizing the role of aesthetic education in personality cultivation.

Mr Cai Yuanpei once shouted: "Aesthetic education is the most important and basic education in life". Jobs also bluntly said that the biggest difference between Apple and other computer companies is that they always pursue art and beauty while pursuing technology.

References:

Baidu encyclopedia-aesthetic education