We often hear and see some strange phenomena among some middle school students today: some students can bravely go on stage and sing a dozen or more popular songs passionately, but completely ignore the fact that they are out of tune. children; they are familiar with a large group of "shooting star" singers, but they do not know "stars" such as Nie Er, Xian Xinghai, Beethoven, and Tchaikovsky; they can selflessly enter exciting love and martial arts novels, but They lack a strong interest in the works of modern and contemporary literary giants such as Lu Xun and Guo Moruo; they blindly and fanatically chase the fashion trends of clothing, but do not know where the beauty they are pursuing lies... This abnormality shows that on the one hand, contemporary Chinese The pursuit of beauty among junior college students is no less than or even stronger than that of the older generation; on the other hand, it shows that the realm they pursue and the way of expression are restricted due to various reasons, resulting in a sense of loss in concept and confusion in judgment. deviation. As an educator, in terms of aesthetic concepts and interests, we do have the responsibility to guide students to distinguish between beauty and ugliness, elegance and vulgarity, and high and low. This gives us the urgent task of changing the current situation of weak aesthetic education and vigorously strengthening aesthetic education.
What is aesthetic education? Is it art and sports. Or is it art and music classes plus some cultural activities that constitute aesthetic education? Of course not. The view that equates aesthetic education with art education is actually a one-sided and narrow misinterpretation of aesthetic education. The so-called aesthetic education refers to aesthetic education or aesthetic education. Generally speaking, aesthetic education includes three aspects: art education with art, music, and dance as the main content, aesthetic knowledge education, and education on the laws of beauty that run through moral education, intellectual education, and sports. The basic task of aesthetic education is to cultivate students' correct aesthetic viewpoints and the ability to feel beauty, appreciate beauty, embody beauty and create beauty.
We live in this vast world where "all kinds of frosts compete for freedom", and beauty exists everywhere: natural beauty, life beauty, art beauty, and scientific beauty. With beauty, there will be beautiful education. Therefore, aesthetic education is not only the inevitable result of the development of human civilization, but also an important aspect of human self-construction. This is the essence of beauty.
The socialist era requires aesthetic education more than any other era, and quality education plays a catalytic role in cultivating all-round development of talents. It occupies a certain position in various subjects in the school and is not dispensable. First, aesthetic education is relatively independent, has its own purpose and mission, and cannot be replaced by moral education, intellectual education, and physical education. Secondly, aesthetic education, moral education, intellectual education, and physical education are inseparable from each other, influencing each other, restricting each other, and promoting each other. Thirdly, aesthetic education, moral education, intellectual education, and physical education are mutually reinforcing. Aesthetic education can be a good means of moral, intellectual, and physical education because of its outstanding advantages such as image, intuition, emotion, and entertainment. On the contrary, moral, intellectual, and physical education can also be a means of aesthetic education, because Appreciating beauty and creating beauty require certain scientific and cultural knowledge, moral cultivation and physical strength as the basis. Of course, the relationship between aesthetic education and morality, intelligence, and sports is by no means an additive relationship, but a chemical relationship. Morality, intelligence, and physical education are inseparable from aesthetic education, and aesthetic education permeates the other three educations.
Moral education includes aesthetic education. Cultivating students' noble moral character and civilized behavioral habits in moral education is actually shaping the spiritual beauty and spiritual beauty of young students. Confucius advocated "doing good will lead to beauty". Beauty and goodness are inseparable. Aesthetic education is actually about using beautiful and vivid images and things to infect and influence people, so as to achieve subtle moral education effects. A melodious song can sometimes have an inspiring and educational effect that far exceeds that of a political philosophy work or ideological education report containing hundreds of thousands of words. Even nature can become a magical aesthetic education textbook. For example, when we organize students to integrate into nature and carry out the second class to go on outings and picnics, every Qingming Festival we lead students to walk dozens of miles to the "(Peng) Xuefeng Cemetery" in half of Sihong City to sweep graves, or to visit the national nature reserve - -Hongze Lake Wetland, boating on the rippling blue lake... Anyone can induce a love for the mountains and rivers of the motherland from the beautiful scenery of nature. Who can say that this is not a good moral and aesthetic education that combines education with entertainment?
Intellectual education also permeates aesthetic education. Literature teaching in art classes, music classes, foreign language classes and Chinese classes is undoubtedly the use of artistic beauty, touching people with beauty, touching people with emotion, purifying the soul and cultivating sentiments.
For example, Xu Zhimo's "Farewell to Cambridge", Dai Wangshu's "Rain Alley", Shu Ting's "To the Oak", etc. in the Chinese class. When you read them, can your soul not be affected by the feeling of beauty? In fact, the symbols, formulas, symmetry, harmony, and unity in mathematics constitute the content and form of scientific beauty in mathematics. There is a famous saying in ancient Greece: "Wherever there is number, there is beauty." As Mr. Cai Yuanpei said: "There is no course in the school that is not related to aesthetic education."
If we talk about the difference between aesthetic education and moral education Relationship is the combination of beauty and kindness, the relationship between aesthetic education and intellectual education is the combination of beauty and truth, then the relationship between aesthetic education and sports is the combination of beauty and health. In sports activities, the coordination, grace and rhythm of movements, the slimness and plumpness of students' bodies, and the lively, optimistic character and bravery they develop during physical exercise are all specific manifestations of aesthetic education factors in sports.
In short, aesthetic education is an indispensable and important part of all-round development of quality education. It is a subject that has a certain penetration relationship with morality, intelligence, and body. It can not only promote the development of students' moral, intellectual and physical education, but also has its own unique functions. It can not only systematically popularize aesthetic knowledge and basic skills for engaging in artistic activities, but also cultivate students' correct aesthetic viewpoints and certain aesthetic abilities, and stimulate students' enthusiasm for loving and pursuing beauty. Therefore, it can be said that education lacking aesthetic education is incomplete education. Strictly speaking, it cannot be regarded as true quality education, at least it is education without appeal. Only by combining aesthetic education with moral, intellectual and physical education can we cultivate truly all-round development talents. Any tendency to belittle and ignore aesthetic education or deny the interpenetrating relationship between the three will cause certain losses to the entire education industry.
(Editor: Peng Jie)
Date of submission: 2012-07-03