The most fundamental essence of aesthetic education is that aesthetic education guides people to pursue the perfection of human nature. Aesthetic education is different from moral education and intellectual education. First of all, aesthetic education is mainly aimed at human sensibility. This sublimation of beauty and human sensibility provides a possibility.
Secondly, aesthetic education can be carried out on the premise of super-utility and super-usefulness, that is to say, it violates people's senses, stimulates people's emotions, and opens people's imagination, without leading people to the actual object or to some use value of the object.
Aesthetic education is perceptual education, which aims at people's sensibility. Aesthetic education is directly related to people's sensibility and also has perceptual character. Therefore, aesthetic education is a kind of perceptual education.
The definition of aesthetic education:
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.
Aesthetic education in a narrow sense, in an extreme definition, refers to art education; Its general definition is: aesthetic education refers to aesthetic education, aesthetic education, aesthetic appreciation and aesthetic literacy education. Aesthetic education in a broad sense, some people think that real 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, substantive 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.