We often hear about "clothing", which is one of the important external manifestations of BQ (American business). The formation of a person's clothing style and his judgment of dressing occasions have an important influence on his personal development and career, but not everyone can choose the clothes that suit him best in different occasions. The lack of this ability is caused by the lack of aesthetic education since childhood.
There are two reasons for people's aesthetic deficiency:
First, parents have been over-controlling since childhood, forcing them to instill their feelings and views on things, lacking room for self-aesthetic development and unable to develop independent aesthetic consciousness;
Second, living in an environment that lacks aesthetic guidance since childhood, or parents and the surrounding environment lack aesthetic cognition and judgment, and cannot develop correct aesthetic concepts.
Recently, at the 20 19 GAE Global Summit on Aesthetic Education for Children and Adolescents held at the China Millennium Monument in Beijing, how to solve the problem of children's "aesthetic deficiency" was discussed.
The organizers of the summit invited leaders who have made different achievements in the field of aesthetic education around the world, and conducted in-depth discussions and ideological collisions on the international research results of aesthetic education and the development status of aesthetic education in China. Through this exchange of ideas on aesthetic education at home and abroad, a platform for international exchange of ideas, methodologies and practical cases on aesthetic education has been established.
This paper probes into the present situation of children's aesthetic education in China, how to construct aesthetics and values in education, what kind of aesthetic education model is suitable for children in China, and how to bring educational ideas to children in China that are not only suitable for the development of education in China, but also have a world vision.
The activity was initiated by Smart Education Group, co-sponsored by Beijing Jin Shangyi Art Foundation, Institute of Social Aesthetic Education of Tsinghua University Academy of Fine Arts, Oriental Art College of Art College of China Renmin University, Social Aesthetic Education Alliance and Institute of Smart Art Education. The Art Education Research Center of Central Academy of Fine Arts provided academic support, and the World Chinese Art Education Association and the Aesthetic Education Committee of China Chinese Literature Promotion Association assisted.
In terms of art education, several organizers reached an unprecedented agreement, and they promoted an aesthetic education concept: wisdom education concept.
This is an "art+discipline" education model, which integrates art with different disciplines, art and history, society, future, science and technology, and countless possible fields, and adds the concept of "companion education" to let children master the ability of knowledge application and innovation in love and warmth, cultivate their imagination and creativity, gain the ability to get happiness, and help them master the key to the future train.
According to Kong, member of the Standing Committee of the Art Education Committee of the Ministry of Education and deputy director of the Art Education Committee of China Artists Association, we need a new modern art education with China culture color, which will integrate the educated China culture level with the global modernization color, build a community of human destiny through art education, and find common interests and values.
Therefore, he said that the exploration of the concept of wisdom education is very valuable to society. The government and society will join hands with Smart Education Group to discuss how to get the best, most modern and global education for children through various efforts and work, hoping to mobilize the strength of the family and expose children to the cultivation and teaching of all-round aesthetic ability and problem-solving thinking ability.
Dennis Inhulsen, chief education officer from the National Association for Art Education (NAEA), pointed out that aesthetic education is not only in the classroom, but also in museums, exhibition halls and nature. These are excellent teaching places and can bring rich aesthetic experiences to children.
In the teaching environment, aesthetic education depends more on the joint guidance of schools, society and families, especially society and families. We can't imagine that a child locked in a room can have a pair of eyes to discover and perceive beauty. Besides learning to appreciate the beauty of art, learning to discover the beauty of nature is also an important part of aesthetic education.
But for most families, feeling nature is the easiest to achieve but the most difficult to achieve.
We can easily take children to parks, green spaces and other natural environments, but it is difficult for children to find differences in homogeneous ecological environments.
Participating in summer camps and other activities is time-consuming and laborious, which is unsustainable ... Are there any places where children can feel the natural charm of different natural ecological environments, while exploring nature, let them learn subject knowledge and master the skills of applying knowledge, and also let them improve their emotional intelligence in teamwork, gain the thinking of problem-solving ability and improve their overall quality?
The answer is yes.
Educator Suhomlinski pointed out: "Nature not only plays a huge role in intellectual education, but also plays an equally important role in enriching children's spiritual life."
Nature is a natural textbook, a living textbook and a huge museum. When children devote themselves to happiness to perceive art education, they will also arouse their curiosity and thirst for knowledge.
In the art class, let children express their feelings and ideas, take children as experiencers, teachers as companions, and are not result-oriented, so that children can "sprout" their new ideas more; Open the door of children's imagination, broaden their horizons, enrich materials and inspire.
Many parents come to Smart because they have an educational consensus with us. More and more parents tell us that "this is the art class I want". We hope that more parents can understand wisdom education and let more children enter the art of wisdom children.
"The future is hard to predict, but it is undeniable that the education we are doing now is to train talents 30 years later. How do we train them now means what the society will look like in 30 years? They hold future passports and control the future. " For the future of aesthetic education, Wu Zhiru, founder of GAE Summit and Smart Education Group, said.
Giving future talents real needs and necessary education is a problem that more than 800 campuses and more than 7,000 teachers of SMART have been thinking about. With the development of globalization, the smart concept with China characteristics will surely bring more creative surprises to the future aesthetic education.