The Generation and Cultivation of Children's Aesthetic Imagination
The aesthetic imagination is an important cognitive tool in the world of children,it is the children's feeling and experience of beauty,and it is children's process and ability to create and express beauty through aesthetic representation in memory.Cultivating children's aesthetic imag-ination is of great significance for the improvement of their aesthetic perception,emotional develop-ment,creativity,and language expression ability.The types of children's aesthetic imagination can be divided into:congenital aesthetic imagination,empirical aesthetic imagination,and creative aes-thetic imagination.Children's aesthetic imagination is a process based on perception,and finally form the creative aesthetic imagination through the accumulation of aesthetic appearance.The strate-gies for cultivating children's aesthetic imagination in curriculum activities should establish a value orientation of aesthetic imagination centered on children;enhance children's aesthetic sensitivity ex-perience;construct a complete experience world of children's aestheticization;and release children's aesthetic imagination in carrying out practical activities,so as to promote the all-round development of children.