Provoking Enthusiasm to Seek Truth through Aesthetic Education——On the Theoretical Path for Fostering Innovation Ability of Postgraduates with Aesthetic Education
The innovation ability of postgraduates mainly consists of four factors:innovative horizon,innovative consciousness,innovative thinking,and innovative spirit.Innovation is the yearning for and exploration of the unknown,which contains both seeking truth and apprehend beauty,reflecting the desire of humans for truth and beauty when facing the unknown and the future.The theoretical logical and practical path of aesthetic education to cultivating innovation ability of postgraduates lies in provoking their enthusiasm to seek truth through the aesthetic education,which means we should broaden the innovative horizon with aesthetic imagination,cultivate innovative consciousness with aesthetic experience,foster innovative thinking with strengthened aesthetic judgment,and inspire innovative spirit with enhanced aesthetic appreciation level.To this end,the author proposes that,in terms of cultivating postgraduates'innovation ability,we should start from four aspects:curriculum construction,teaching methods,construction of teaching staff,and activity arrangement.The author also suggests that we should realize the concept transformation from"aesthetic education class"to"class-based aesthetic education",infiltrate aesthetic edification in subject teaching,comprehensively improve teachers'aesthetic literacy and create a strong aesthetic education atmosphere across the board.