Aesthetic education is also called aesthetic education. That is, by cultivating people's ability to know beauty, experience beauty, feel beauty, appreciate beauty and create beauty, people will have beautiful ideals, good sentiments, good character and good cultivation.
In a narrow sense, aesthetic education is defined as "art education"; Its general definition is: aesthetic education refers to aesthetic education, aesthetic education, aesthetic education and aesthetic literacy education. Aesthetic education in a broad sense, some people think: "Aesthetic education is an education formed by infiltrating aesthetic principles into the teaching of various disciplines."
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.
Aesthetic education is the combination of aesthetic teaching and aesthetic teaching. Improving people's ability to know, understand, appreciate and create beauty through education is an important focus of cultivating socialist builders and successors with all-round development in morality, intelligence, physique, beauty and labor in the new era, and plays a unique and irreplaceable role in "educating people with morality". Among them, art is a concentrated and typical form of aesthetic education. 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. ?