What is the value of an arts education?
What does "big education, big art, big aesthetic education" mean?
Research Report on the Development of Aesthetic Education in China
What are the hot and difficult issues in aesthetic education?
On November 26th, the 3rd Dongqian Lake Education Forum was held in Ningbo, Zhejiang Province. With the theme of "The Future of Beauty", Chinese and foreign guests discussed "The Future of Beauty" and "How Beauty Shapes the Future" in the form of speeches and keynote speeches, and interpreted the theme of the forum from multiple angles.
This forum focused on folk first-line aesthetic education, explored and solved practical problems in reality, and realized the dialogue between art masters and grassroots aesthetic education models, the dialogue between theoretical innovation and practical innovation, and the dialogue between Eastern aesthetic education culture and Western aesthetic education culture.
Joining forces to watch the "future of Miyu"
Long Yongtu, former secretary general of the Boao Forum for Asia and chairman of the Dongqian Lake Education Forum, pointed out in his opening speech that at a time when the whole country is deeply studying and implementing the spirit of the 20th CPC National Congress, the Dongqian Lake Education Forum should grasp the correct political direction and make efforts to run an education satisfactory to the people in accordance with the instruction that "education is the great plan of the country and the party" put forward in the report of the 20th CPC National Congress. For the theme of this year's forum "The Future of Beauty", he believes that there are two meanings: first, aesthetic education is an important aspect of cultivating China's future talents, with the aim of cultivating socialist builders and successors with all-round development of morality, intelligence, physique, beauty and labor; The second is to explore aesthetic education under the new international and domestic situation, aiming to explore a development path of aesthetic education with Chinese characteristics and contribute to the all-round development of a new generation.
Long Yongtu
George Papandreou, former Prime Minister of Greece and Chairman of the Dongchanhu Education Forum, fully affirmed the value of art education in his opening speech. He believes that giving all students access to a well-rounded arts education, even online, is crucial. Aesthetic education is an important part of education, and the arts give people practical skills and techniques, provide more opportunities for human development, and allow children to embark on a beautiful journey of exploration and discovery. The importance of this forum is that it brings together educators and art teachers to inspire innovative approaches to transform the way they work, think and interact in schools and elsewhere, which will play an active leading and instrumental role in driving change.
George Papandreou
Li Guanding, member of the leading party group and vice mayor of Ningbo Municipal People's Government, said in his speech that the Dongqian Lake Education Forum has gathered the wisdom of many authoritative experts and scholars at home and abroad, and the forum has been widely praised and praised by the society since it was held for three years. The forum actively disseminates the concept of great aesthetic education, builds a platform for great aesthetic education, and expands the channels of great aesthetic education, believing that through joint efforts, more valuable educational ideas will be extracted, and mutual learning and common development will be promoted between Chinese and Western education.
Li Guanding
Han Ping, member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and president of the Zhejiang Education Society, said in his speech that this forum focuses on folk aesthetic education, takes root in the life of the times, and explores grassroots aesthetic education stories with Chinese characteristics, which will certainly play a positive role in expanding aesthetic education resources and exploring new paths of social aesthetic education.
Han Ping
Great education, great art, great aesthetic education
Aesthetic educators apply the theory of aesthetics to education, with the purpose of cultivating feelings. In the speech unit of the conference, 6 guests shared their profound understanding and wonderful views on aesthetic education around the cutting-edge trends, latest developments, development orientation, policy standards and other contents of "big education, big art, big aesthetic education".
Xu Jiang, vice chairman of the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles, vice chairman of the China Artists Association, and chairman of the Zhejiang Federation of Literary and Art Circles, expressed the heart of Chinese love for bamboo through the spirit of "giving up" contained in the ink bamboo in the poem by appreciating bamboo, painting bamboo, and reciting the spirit of "giving up" contained in the ink bamboo in poetry, reflecting the Chinese aesthetic education and beauty heart. Bamboo is a kind of spiritual condensation, a ubiquitous aesthetic education, the key points of aesthetic education are awakened and opened one by one.
Xu Jiang
Zhu Yongxin, Standing Committee Member and Deputy Secretary-General of the 13th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and Vice Chairman of the Central Committee for Promoting Democracy, took school art and non-art courses as examples in his keynote speech entitled "Aesthetic Education, the Cause of Educating People", and explained in detail how to carry out comprehensive aesthetic education practice in the actual operation of school curriculum. He believes that the purpose of art education is not to cultivate professional artists and artistic leaders, aesthetic education focuses on achieving the beauty of people, from "presenting the beauty of people" to "adult beauty", aesthetic education should allow everyone to become a complete and happy person through a happy and complete educational life.
Zhu Yongxin Zhu Yongxin
Liao Wenke, former first-level inspector of the Department of Physical Arts and Health of the Ministry of Education and deputy director of the National Basic Education Teaching Steering Committee, shared his views on aesthetic education from the perspective of educational practice and management. He believes that aesthetic education should provide fertile soil in terms of teachers, hardware facilities, and evaluation mechanisms, and that poor soil should also create conditions for the germination of beauty seeds according to local conditions. The recognition of grassroots aesthetic education workers by the Huamao Meiyu Award is a practical action to promote aesthetic education, and it is also an affirmation, encouragement and guidance for grassroots aesthetic education workers who attach importance to aesthetic education and put it into action.
Liao Wenke
Du Wei, former president of Hangzhou Normal University, member of the Standing Committee of the 13th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, and vice chairman of the Guidance Committee of Aesthetic Education in Colleges and Universities of the Ministry of Education, said that aesthetic education is perceptual education, personality education, and creative education, as the main implementation form of aesthetic education, art education is the most effective way to gradually cultivate people's aesthetic ability and aesthetic literacy. Future aesthetic education should fully affirm the important value of human emotional development, and explore the establishment of an evaluation system that is more in line with the requirements of children's personality and creative development.
Du Wei
Den Hoopingarner, Cultural Officer of the Press and Culture Section of the U.S. Consulate General in Shanghai, believes that art belongs to all mankind, is the common language of mankind, and art can express ideals and feelings that cannot be conveyed by language, and is one of the important ways of human communication. The more we know the language of art, the better we can understand each other and the more we can express our humanity.
Hudani
Francesco D'Arelli, Director of Culture at the Italian Consulate General in Shanghai, introduced Italy's long cultural history and artistic development. He said that the essence of culture lies in the fact that it is an experience of sharing, integration and mutual exchange, and suggested that China and Italy strengthen cultural cooperation, develop through strategic cooperation between public museums and private museums, and share space and art collections.
Darenli
"Research Report on the Development of Aesthetic Education in China" was released
The forum also released the "Research Report on the Development of Aesthetic Education in China", which is the first research report on aesthetic education since the release of the central government's document on further strengthening aesthetic education, which comprehensively presents the progress of aesthetic education work by governments and various parts of the mainland, analyzes the hot and difficult issues of aesthetic education work, summarizes and lists the achievements and experience of grassroots aesthetic education innovation practice in recent years, and provides valuable reference and guidance for the sustainable development of aesthetic education in mainland China.
Yuan Zhenguo, Dean of Zhejiang Dongqian Lake Education Research Institute and tenured professor of East China Normal University, as the publisher of the report, explained in depth from the dimensions of macro policy, grassroots practice and theoretical direction, and showed the new trends, new formats and new vitality of school aesthetic education development in the new era through the improvement of aesthetic education measures, aesthetic education development index, and exploration of new aesthetic education practice models.
Yuan Zhenguo
Li Lianning, former deputy secretary-general of the National People's Congress, general counsel of the National Private Education Association and consultant of the Dongqian Lake Education Forum, said in the summary of the conference that the content of this forum is profound and exciting, focusing on the integration of moral, intellectual, physical, aesthetic and labor education, focusing on the front-line aesthetic education of the people, exploring and solving practical problems in reality, realizing the dialogue between art masters and grassroots aesthetic education models, the dialogue between theoretical innovation and practical innovation, and the dialogue between oriental aesthetic education culture and Western aesthetic education culture, profoundly expounding the new concept, new content and new tasks of aesthetic education in the new era. It is hoped that more people with lofty ideals can unite their efforts to cultivate the "soil" of grassroots aesthetic education, so that the "seeds of aesthetic education" can take root downward and grow strongly, so as to enrich and protect the development ecology of aesthetic education.
Lian Ning
It is reported that the 2nd Huamao Meiyu Award and the 3rd Dongqian Lake Education Forum are sponsored by Ningbo Huamao Education Foundation, Zhejiang Dongqian Lake Education Research Institute, Suzhou New Education Research Institute, Ningbo Education Society, and co-organized by the New Education Research Institute and New Art Education Research Center.