Aesthetic education was put forward by Schiller. However, aesthetic education practice and aesthetic education consciousness have existed since ancient times.
As soon as China got rid of the barbarism of primitive clan society and entered the slavery society of ancient civilization in the Western Zhou Dynasty, there was the Duke of Zhou's "ritual and music system". Rites are the norms and rituals of ethical relations, and music is a comprehensive art including poetry, song and dance. The combination of ceremony and music is not only the law and system of governing the country, but also the way of education.
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.
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