Aesthetic education has two meanings: in a narrow sense, it is to educate people through artistic means, and in a broad sense, it is to educate people with all forms of beauty of nature, social life, material products and spiritual products, so as to beautify people's mind, behavior, language and posture and improve people's morality and wisdom.
The history of aesthetic education is almost as long as the history of human civilization. Witchcraft in primitive society is also a means of aesthetic education for early people. As early as the Zhou Dynasty, China formed a system of educating aristocratic children with "six arts" (ritual, music, shooting, imperial, calligraphy and mathematics). Music is a trinity aesthetic education course of poetry, music and dance.
Books are learning to write. In addition to practical purposes, they also contain elements of calligraphy art. Archery and archery are skills to practice archery and driving, and beautifying posture is also included in sports and military training. Etiquette not only instills the moral concept of the ruling class, but also includes the cultivation of the beauty of manners, behavior and language.
In kindergarten curriculum, aesthetic education should account for a large proportion, such as games, singing, dancing, bricklaying, papermaking, painting, storytelling and mime. It is necessary to develop the sensitivity and activity of various sensory organs such as motor sense, hearing, vision and touch through various aesthetic forms, grasp the overall structure and grasp the emotional implication.
Ecological consciousness of aesthetic education;
There are three main streams of China culture, namely Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism, among which Buddhism is the most important. These three main streams are full of harmonious and symbiotic ecological wisdom and rich and profound educational ecological views, which provide ideological weapons for guiding the current aesthetic education, eliminating the disadvantages of exam-oriented education and promoting the sustainable development of people, people and nature, and people and society.
People's harmonious consciousness is the foundation of building a harmonious society. To build a harmonious society, we must first strengthen the cultivation of people's sense of harmony. Building a harmonious society requires not only material harmony, but also spiritual harmony. Ecological aesthetic education with harmony as the core plays a unique role in promoting the spiritual harmony between man and nature, man and society and man himself.
Strengthening ecological aesthetic education, attaching importance to spiritual harmony, coordinating all aspects and actively cultivating people's sense of harmony are the important tasks facing China in building a harmonious society at present. The essential need of human's poetic existence determines that human's existence must be ecological. The solution of ecological problems depends on the establishment of people's ecological consciousness and ecological aesthetic concept.