Mr. Mu Xin said: "Without aesthetic power, it is a terminal disease, and knowledge cannot be saved."
Jiang Xun, an aesthetician, said: "A person's aesthetic level determines his competitive level, because aesthetics not only represents the overall thinking, but also represents the detailed thinking. The best gift for a child is to cultivate his aesthetic power. "
The best place to cultivate children's aesthetics is nature. Nature is an unparalleled teaching material and source of aesthetic education. As the famous writer Xi Murong said, "If a child has never touched nature, touched the skin of a tree or stepped on dry and fragile leaves, he can't teach art, because he has never been exposed to beauty first-hand".
In nature, children's natural expression is more fully developed. In nature, you can often learn things that books can't. Many writers and artists emphasize the aesthetic function of nature to children. Children's aesthetic psychological structure mainly includes keen perception, rich imagination and thorough understanding. According to children's aesthetic psychological structure, we should pay attention to three core elements in cultivating children's aesthetic education: feeling beauty, discovering beauty and creating beauty.
The first element: feel beauty.
"Without the edification of beauty, it is difficult for children to perceive beauty. Zhuangzi said, "There is great beauty in heaven and earth without saying anything". It is naturally the most natural art museum, with flowers in spring, forests in summer, fruits in autumn and snow in winter. When the child smiles for the first winter jasmine in spring, when he points to the white clouds in the blue sky and observes carefully, when he listens to the birds singing calmly ... the child has quietly taken the first step in the whole aesthetic process of the world-aesthetic perception.
Different natural scenery brings different experiences and feelings to children. In the foggy rainy season, towering mountains overlap; A butterfly in a rape field in spring, a flock of seagulls at sunset in the evening ..... Every natural landscape has its own unique color, smell, sound, temperature, art and so on, which is the best nourishment for children's aesthetic education.
The second element: discover beauty.
The famous educator Suhomlinski once said: "There are many beautiful things in nature. If you don't show them and tell them in advance, they won't pay attention. " To let children really learn to appreciate nature and improve their aesthetic ability, we should give them necessary guidance and encourage them to express their inner feelings and imagination while gaining rich perceptual knowledge in the scene.
For example, parents and children come to nature with umbrellas and rain boots. Parents can guide their children: "What do you think raindrops are doing?" When children see the glittering raindrops scattered on the umbrella, they will shout happily, "Listen, raindrops are singing on my umbrella." At this time, children can talk about their feelings. Some children will say, "I feel like raindrops, dancing with them on the umbrella." Other children will say, "I feel like I flew into the air with raindrops." In this way, the aesthetic imagination permeates the aesthetic perception, making the content of aesthetic perception richer and deeper, deepening children's emotional experience of natural beauty, and gradually rising from aesthetic perceptual knowledge to rational knowledge.
The third element: creating beauty
When children have experienced the changes of spring, summer, autumn and winter, and experienced the spring when flowers bloom and fall, they can be encouraged to express and record their most intuitive experiences and discoveries, the most authentic feelings and imaginations in their own unique ways. For example, the simplest painting allows children to express their feelings about nature with the paintings in their hands, depict the beautiful scenery in their hearts, and let the visual feelings and aesthetic tastes in their hearts really blend in their hands and brains.
The beauty of nature is simple, and the beauty of nature is rich. Nature is full of materials that create beauty, such as stones, pinecones, seeds and leaves. Thoreau said: "The combination of mind and nature can produce wisdom and imagination." When children feel and discover beauty in nature, they naturally have creative beauty. Those simple natural elements, under the imaginative minds of children, have become another unique natural beauty. For example, children imagine different kinds of leaves as different things and spell out lifelike works of art, such as splicing leaves into blue cats, Teletubbies, Altman, flying saucers, "tortoise and rabbit races" or boats and flowers.
These are the three elements of cultivating children's aesthetic education in nature. Cultivating children's aesthetic education in nature can not only feel beauty, discover beauty and create beauty, but also nourish children's hearts and love for life.
Russian writer Shedelin said: "If there is no direct and vivid connection between children and nature, then the most vivid and gorgeous pictures can't impress him." Natural aesthetic education cultivates and purifies the soul, just like the spring breeze melts the rain, and the night is silent, which makes people imperceptible. Even in the most ordinary and common natural environment, a green leaf, a clear spring and a bunch of wild flowers will make children sympathize with everything in the world, sprout the purest kindness in their hearts, and truly cultivate a beautiful personality and mind.
Zhu Yongxin said: "The ideal aesthetic education must go out of the' small world' of books, blend into nature and enjoy its aura in the embrace of nature."
Then take the children into nature, feel the changes and magic of natural weather, explore the stories and mysteries of all things in nature, and appreciate the beauty and magnificence of natural scenery! Slowly, you will find that in the sunshine and rain of nature, children's life span has been expanded, children's life imagination has been developed, and children's aesthetic education soul has been nourished. Unconsciously, they have their own appreciation and observation of beautiful things, can freely express their inner thoughts and feelings, and can feel the preciousness and enthusiasm of life. Return to nature, enlighten aesthetic education, and remain childlike.