At home in winter, this different little book is read slowly. Different from those practical educational books that pursue "operability" or "replicability", it is actually difficult to extract practical meaning, which can only be called "essays on aesthetic education".
However, there are many records of the author's aesthetic education practice for many years, his observation of the city and the comparison between Chinese and Western cultures. Without exception, they all have eyes that find beauty. I have to exclaim: "So this is beauty!"
I admire the author Wang very much. With the accumulation of reading and the cultivation of thinking habits since childhood, coupled with the gradual construction and optimization of knowledge system and the improvement of artistic aesthetics, he has enough background to engage in aesthetic education practice.
1984 she saw the impression survey of China students conducted by UNESCO, and the survey found that China students lacked humanistic and artistic literacy. At this point, she took the lead in aesthetic education, taking art, music, poetry and other art forms as the material of aesthetic education and integrating them into history and modern life. She opened the first aesthetic education class in Nanyang Model Middle School at 1985, which is worthy of the title of the only special-grade teacher of aesthetic education in China.
Aesthetics is also offered in our undergraduate specialized courses. This seemingly boring theoretical course actually contains too many philosophical questions in details. I have long forgotten what opinions Zhu Guangqian and Li Zehou discussed with the teacher after class more than a year ago. While indulging in this speculative theory, I seldom think about how to put aesthetic education to the ground.
Before reading this book, I thought aesthetic education was just art education. In particular, many rural summer camps often adopt this orientation, and unilaterally equate aesthetic education with art education. Combined with the content of aesthetics course, aesthetic education should also include the education of the distinction between good and evil in the universal morality of society. Moral education and art education are my understanding of aesthetic education.
After reading Essays on Aesthetic Education, I think aesthetic education can be divided into several levels from bottom to top: self-identity, social norms and artistic appreciation. For example, these three levels are: the establishment and self-discovery of self-confidence, the acquisition and interpersonal communication of etiquette, the respect and recognition of culture and the artistic creation of imagination, and so on.
Wang's practice enriched the connotation of aesthetic education. Beauty lies in the trust and closeness to self-connection; It is to be sincere and respectful in dealing with others; It is awe of all things in nature; Educated, polite and wise in social life. As the book says, getting close to art and studying aesthetics may not be effective quickly, but it is like a spring rain that moistens things silently. It is an aesthetic relationship that people gradually establish with themselves, others and society, and consciously abandon ugliness.
I like Mr. Wang's sentence about aesthetic education and personal growth very much: "I firmly believe that the initial frequency of a life is consistent with truth, goodness and beauty." Education is not only to impart knowledge from books, but also to guard this frequency to counter the noise from the adult world that will be broken in the future. Although one day, they will cross the threshold of reality and their ideals may hit a wall, they still have the ability to get along with setbacks and hardships with that tough core and rich and soft external heart. "
I'm glad that aesthetic education, as the most inconspicuous "one big education" among the five major educations, has been paid more and more attention. However, due to the advocacy of official documents, we haven't really started to set up a syllabus and popularize it in schools. How to carry out aesthetic education in school education? This is a mystery to me. Aesthetic education is too comprehensive, including music, art and many other disciplines, as well as the ideological content and comprehensive practical activities of morality and rule of law. At this point, I have to look at the relevant documents in detail. Is there a curriculum standard? In the top-down curriculum, it is difficult to foresee the independent existence of aesthetic education, but the responsibilities and rights when it permeates the sub-subject curriculum are not clear.
Aesthetic education exists as a "small discipline" under the examination-oriented education system. Its realization in school education seems to depend on the subjective motivation and ability of teachers, which is reflected in the sublimation of emotions and values in classroom teaching content, which is single and limited. The real implementation of aesthetic education in schools has a long way to go, and its motivation comes more from the curriculum reform within the school itself.
Schools can also "utilitarian" aesthetic education as a characteristic course of the school, and carry out responsive but thorough and comprehensive reforms internally. Students are immersed in extensive reading texts led by teachers on campus to appreciate, read and understand; All teachers should establish the consciousness of participating in campus aesthetic education, demand the continuous accumulation of knowledge, pay attention to the education of students' interactive love and improve their own quality and etiquette, and set an example appropriately; Schools can offer some art courses according to their own conditions, and even some ordinary practice and interaction can become a platform for aesthetic education. Schools need to make more efforts to design, including other features of comprehensive schools, which are of great benefit to the lifelong development of students, the improvement of teachers' quality and the shaping of campus culture.
Family aesthetic education can not be ignored. It is especially important to respond to children with love, point out in time and educate them in time. Untie your child, become a happy person, and think about your own direction independently, instead of passively accepting the universal direction of life that parents think, and let your child bathe in an aesthetic atmosphere of respect, equality and tolerance.
This is a good little book, which brings me a lot of thoughts and a new understanding of school aesthetic education. What I hope most is that, regardless of teachers in any subject, it is most important to remember the talents of Lide Shuren. It is difficult to carry out aesthetic education classes now. For the time being, I hope those art teachers can "save" the children's aesthetics and give them a true and childlike perspective in this era of abnormal aesthetics. It doesn't matter how much you learn, what matters is how much you appreciate and how much you feel different.
I also hope that I can improve myself in life, communication and artistic appreciation, and I will set an example in the future.