Schiller said: "there are education to promote health, education to promote understanding, education to promote morality, education to promote appreciation and beauty." The purpose of this last education is to cultivate our whole emotional and spiritual strength in order to achieve harmony as much as possible. " If a person's aesthetic power is lacking, it will lead to great problems in his innovation power and his view of things is too rigid.
For example, many parents will selectively let their children learn when they sign up for interest classes, and more tend to be more practical. Even some parents don't allow their children to have any interest. They believe that the main goal of the student era is to study.
In this case, children's lack of artistic interest will lead to ideological solidification and major problems in aesthetic power over time.
Some schools will require children to wear school uniforms, which is interpreted as "students should be like students". In their eyes, if students dress themselves, they just don't cooperate with management and may need to find parents. In my opinion, as long as students dress appropriately and like to wear what kind of clothes, that is their freedom, and aesthetics should not be restricted.
As for how to carry out aesthetic education for children, I think we can start from the following aspects:
0 1, to help children discover the beauty around them and create beauty. As parents of children, we need to give them more companionship and cultivate their ability to discover beauty. We can take our children to travel together, let them feel the beauty of nature and know how to appreciate and discover the infinite scenery of nature.
The cultivation of aesthetic power focuses on daily life, and children can also be taken to do some "parent-child activities" to feel the beauty of a happy life in the process of playing. Or take the children to do some handmade things together to make them more creative and aesthetic.
02. Pay attention to cultivate children's hobbies and develop their specialties. Cultivating children's hobbies is definitely conducive to the formation of children's aesthetic power. Painting, singing, guitar, piano, dance and so on all belong to different art forms and can be learned. Beauty should be varied and should not be defined casually. Art education is a vital course in aesthetic education.
At the same time, schools and teachers should also respect children's "alternative ideas" and not solidify students' thinking ability. Dewey, Plato and other educational classics believe that "in the process of children's cognitive development, we should not pay too much attention to rationalism and ignore their perceptual experience and expression." The aesthetic development of children is very important. For a long time, aesthetic education has been easily ignored in the planning, practice and evaluation of education. When children's all-round development becomes unbalanced, aesthetic education can be said to be the "last resort" to shape their personality development.
The strength of children's aesthetic ability also determines their innovative ability, so parents and teachers should pay attention to cultivating and guiding their children's more comprehensive development.