Re-understanding the Values of Aesthetic Education in Rural Schools
From Beautiful China to a Better Life,beauty is the value pursuit and ardent expectation of the nation and its people.School aesthetic education bears the responsibility of our times:cultivating and ac-tivating spiritual strength,inheriting and promoting Chinese civilization,fostering and enhancing cultural confidence,and understanding and realizing a better life.The survey found that there are three miscon-ceptions regarding the perception of the value of aesthetic education in rural schools,including marginal-ization in status cognition,s skill-oriented cognition in content,and lecture-oriented cognition in method-ology.To re-understand the value of aesthetic education in rural schools,on the one hand,it is necessary to understand the universality of aesthetic education in rural schools.In the harmonious development of material civilization and spiritual civilization,it nurtures students'national spirit through aesthetic taste;in the coordinated development of scientific thinking and artistic thinking,it awakens students'imagina-tion and creativity through free imagination;in the integrated development of beautifying people and moral education,it internalizes students'ideal beliefs through emotional experiences.On the other hand,it is important to understand the uniqueness of the value of aesthetic education in rural schools.Perceiving the characteristics of rural beauty,cultivating students'sensibility and appreciation through natural scen-ery and folk culture;activating the dynamics of rural beauty,stimulating students'experiential and crea-tive abilities through open spaces and collision of thoughts;recognizing the value of rural beauty,foste-ring students'sense of responsibility and values through emotional resonance and cultural confidence.
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