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 period, and plays a unique and irreplaceable role in "educating people with morality". Among them, art is the most concentrated and typical form of aesthetic 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. 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" in the extreme sense. 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: "The real aesthetic education is the education formed by infiltrating aesthetic principles into the teaching of various disciplines."
Defining the change of another dimension in the process of aesthetic education from narrow sense to broad sense
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.