Research on the ways of improving the aesthetic education ability of college art students
Published Online: Feb 27, 2025
Received: Oct 21, 2024
Accepted: Jan 27, 2025
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/amns-2025-0146
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Starting from the process of aesthetic formation, the content of aesthetic education should be carried out from two aspects: perception of beauty and understanding of beauty. In the deeper aesthetic teaching content, using the relationship between "practice" and "cognition" in philosophy, it is to guide students to apply aesthetic feeling and cognition to practice, so that it can produce actual beauty, so that the original aesthetic concept can be sublimated in practice. The fundamental purpose of college aesthetic education is not to transform objective beauty into reality, but to let students actively feel the beauty, so that they can better use their subjective creative ability and apply it to practice. Therefore, the essence of college aesthetic education is the cultivation of ideas and abilities. The concept of beauty means that in the process of basic aesthetic teaching, students can continuously learn how to use aesthetic viewpoints to judge the quality and gravity of things,and have a correct understanding of themselves, others, and the things around them. The so-called "aesthetic education" is to combine aesthetics with practice to improve the teaching effect.
Aesthetic education is an important aspect of education, which is related to whether education can effectively promote the all-round development of people and whether the original intention of education can be truly realized. In recent years, aesthetic education has become an indispensable part of our national education strategy. After professional study, have the students of art major in colleges and universities already had the corresponding aesthetic accomplishment, has the higher art appreciation ability and the appreciation of life, so that the body and spirit have been comprehensively developed? In any case, aesthetic education must be carried out in terms of cultivating students' core qualities.
Artistic behavior itself is also an intuitive sense of beauty. Through appreciating and practicing art forms such as painting, music, and dance, students' artistic appreciation level and artistic creativity can be improved. However, from a deeper perspective, artistic behavior itself is an attitude toward life and a way to survive, which is determined by the social environment and the creator's aesthetic values. Therefore, in the college aesthetic education teaching activities, we should combine aesthetics with education, and carry out basic aesthetic education for students majoring in art, which can not only improve students' artistic quality, but also improve their aesthetic taste. However, there are many problems in the teaching of aesthetic education in Chinese universities.


At present, the existing basic aesthetic education textbooks in China are not enough in quantity and quality, and their updating speed is slow, which can not adapt to the learning characteristics and practical needs of students in the new era. In addition, in the setting of the curriculum content, the basic aesthetic education content of our country is mainly guided by the Western aesthetic concept, and carried out by translation and editing. Among them, the three most common problems are: first, the understanding of foreign aesthetic works is insufficient and one-sided; Second, there is no suitable aesthetic education for Chinese students according to their characteristics; Third, the existing teaching content has not been combined with the aesthetic concept in Chinese traditional culture, and failed to extract it. Due to the lameness of the basic aesthetic teaching content, the teaching of the basic aesthetic is incomplete, one-sided, and lagging, and the students naturally cannot understand and apply the aesthetic spirit.
According to the existing university statistics, the number of teachers engaged in aesthetic education is very small. The teachers of the basic course of aesthetic education are mostly teachers of other categories. Therefore, in the course of teaching, teachers will inevitably not have a deep understanding of aesthetics, and lack accurate aesthetic education guidance for students' characteristics. Therefore, it is necessary to strengthen the training and construction of teachers to satisfy the cultivation of college students' aesthetic tastes and abilities.
In the traditional basic aesthetic education, due to the reasons of time, teachers often put more energy into the teaching of aesthetic research and literary criticism, and imparting to students the individual aesthetic psychology of the society and creators of the era reflected in various art forms. This is an aesthetic psychological analysis based on an art form or a work of art. The college aesthetic education is too formalized and the teaching content is too simple, which makes the aesthetic education teaching full of utilitarian color. At the same time, aesthetic education has gradually evolved into the understanding of works and creators. The basic education of aesthetic education in university does not pay enough attention to aesthetic education, and the effect of its educational practice is bound to be unsatisfactory.
Aesthetic education is a kind of aesthetic education, its cultivation requires the theory and teaching practice closely together,to stimulate people's pursuit of beauty, and form a correct aesthetic concept, so that people's emotions can be cultivated, and the overall quality can be improved. People's aesthetic education can be improved only through the three periods of perceiving beauty, recognizing beauty, and creating beauty.
When art workers create art, they will integrate their aesthetic feelings and unique viewpoints, so that students can naturally experience the painter's perception of beauty when appreciating these artworks, enhance their understanding of beauty, and stimulate their creative ability. At present, in college, many college students' understanding and cognition of aesthetics are not deep and comprehensive enough. However, under the influence of art, people can get spiritual happiness. The goal of aesthetic education is to cultivate sentiment, while the value of art is to convey people's thoughts and feelings through artistic works.
Aesthetic education plays a special and irreplaceable role in cultivating college students' healthy personality. Aesthetic education is to cultivate people's souls, we should run through aesthetic education in the fundamental task of cultivating people, to "walk toward the United States" and take the United States as the United States. The practice has proved that aesthetic education is an important support for improving students' humanistic quality. The aesthetic education in the moral education of colleges and universities is a kind of recessive education, which should reflect both the ideological and political education of students and the aesthetic education of students. In the process of appreciation, students can enhance their moral consciousness, rise from sensibility to rationality, and then understand morality, and strengthen moral consciousness. Aesthetic education and moral education, intellectual education, physical education, and labor education promote each other, and the development of aesthetic education promotes the multi-directional development of moral education, intellectual education, physical education, and labor education. Strengthening aesthetic education in schools can not only give full play to the role of aesthetic education in colleges and universities, but also provide a strong guarantee for the all-round development of students.
Art shows the cultural characteristics of the whole society, but also reflects the ideological characteristics of the group and the psychological characteristics of the individual. Artistic works with correct and positive values are more likely to be recognized by the society, and at the same time, they are more likely to spread in the society and have a positive impact on the society. In the current moral education, more passive, didactic education mode, and its educational goal has a certain practical, utilitarian, can not make students realize the value of moral education. Through the combination of aesthetic education and moral education, an appreciative moral education can be developed. Therefore, under the core idea of student-centered, focus on students themselves, change the current utilitarian education outlook, and methodology, and carry out non-utilitarian life education, personality education and ideological education for students. To make students live a happy life is the top priority and top priority.
Beautiful things can always cause people's hearts and emotions to be happy, like beauty is the nature of human beings, and to perceive, understand, and appreciate various forms of beauty, thus producing a kind of beauty,that requires a special aesthetic education. Students majoring in art should improve their understanding of artistic beauty through study and enrich their ways of expressing artistic beauty. At the same time, they also need to transform their understanding of artistic beauty into personal personality accomplishment in real life through aesthetic education. Aesthetic education is a lasting practical activity, the significance and value of aesthetic education has gone beyond the present, with greater potential and far-reaching significance.
Improving people's spiritual realm is not only the essence of education, but also a manifestation of edifying sentiment and perfecting personality. Aesthetic education is an art that takes people's emotions as the medium. It can purify people's minds imperceptibly, and it plays an irreplaceable role in improving people's psychological quality. Therefore, China's traditional education has always attached great importance to aesthetic education, which takes poetry, rites, and music as its main content and plays an important role in cultivating people's personalities. Aesthetic education is a bridge through the unity of knowledge and action. We hope to realize the cultivation of personality and soul through aesthetic education.The modern aesthetic education centered on aesthetic education will certainly enrich the spiritual world of human beings in individual life experiences through the bridge of aesthetic education. In art education, the teaching of skills is only used as a way of aesthetic practice, and the ultimate goal is to cultivate people with noble sentiments, so that they can become people with harmonious development of body and mind. Aesthetic education is the fundamental condition to realize the harmonious development of man and nature, the reason is that the essence of aesthetics is a kind of internal and spiritual dual experience. From this point of view, the pursuit of a higher level of the spiritual realm is a kind of construction of spiritual beauty, which is consistent with the requirements of harmony between the human body and mind.
At the same time, cultivating the aesthetic mind through aesthetic education and transforming the aesthetic sight of college students from the network virtual world to the natural and social life is the key to improving the level of life. To create an aesthetic mood, the first thing is to go deep into nature and comprehend the aesthetic taste of nature. In the perception of the world, we can realize the mapping relationship between natural beauty and the human soul. Just as the aesthetic pursuit of Chinese landscape painting is the spiritual care for everything between heaven and earth, it pays attention to the smooth aesthetic image and a kind of aesthetic mentality beyond the secular. Secondly, to experience fresh and rich aesthetic images in daily life. Let students get rid of the "visual experience" produced by the edification of leisure culture, and perceive, discover, and create beauty in the simple but substantial real world. This process of cultivating an aesthetic mind is to integrate aesthetic activities with nature and life. It is also a process of purifying and nourishing the soul. In the infiltration of beauty, the realm of life can be sublimated.
Colleges and universities should be equipped with enough professional teachers to cultivate and manage art societies, and incorporate the daily training and management results into the daily evaluation of teachers, to ensure that teachers' value in art societies is fully brought into play. There should also be an excellent party member teacher to guide them to set up correct values, so that they can perform art programs with correct value orientation; In addition, the school should also increase funds, such as providing sufficient venues for the dance club, buying sufficient Musical Instruments for the music club, holding exhibitions for the calligraphy club, equipping the photography club with new media equipment and so on. At the same time, the equipment and equipment needed by the art club should be checked regularly to ensure its aesthetic education function in daily life.
If the art community wants to give full play to its role in aesthetic education, it should first start by cultivating the aesthetic consciousness of college students. Schools should conduct aesthetic education to college students through the classroom, campus culture publicity, and other ways, and call on students to actively participate in art societies. Schools should strengthen the management of art associations, and at the same time, strengthen students' self-discipline and improve their quality in strict accordance with various regulations of the school. To stimulate the enthusiasm of students to participate in the art community, the school should establish a set of evaluation and evaluation system, give awards to excellent students, and give credits to those who complete a certain period of hours in the activity class of the art community, and no bonus points to those who fail to reach the period, and finally count in the total score.
Schools should give full play to the role of art clubs in students' aesthetic education, so that the results will benefit all students. In the school, the school should make art activities become normal. In addition to theoretical training, the school should actively encourage all students to participate in practical activities such as dance, chorus, opera, stage drama, art visits, and appreciation. The role of aesthetic education should be integrated into various school activities, and exhibitions, performances, and competitions should be organized in the school. Organize students to actively participate in local and national art exhibitions outside the school, and at the same time, they can also practice in the fine arts department of their hometown during holidays, so that all college students can participate in it and experience the edifying of beauty, rather than just "self-digestion" in the community.


In the rapid development, educators can not stick to the original teaching methods, but should be brave to explore. To establish the concept of sustainable development of moral education, always put people in the first place, care for students in the first place, let them use a better attitude to integrate into the society, and improve their moral quality. Contemporary college students, especially those majoring in art, have a strong aesthetic consciousness, can accept new things well, and can grasp the beautiful moments in life well. School education should firmly grasp the personality of students, pay attention to "beauty" and "new ideas", and try to let students adapt to this teaching method, to continuously improve the quality of students. The innovation of the moral education concept will reduce students' rebellious psychology and let them learn happily.
Strengthen the combination of aesthetic education with moral education, intellectual education, physical education, and labor education, explore and make use of spiritual beauty, etiquette beauty, language beauty, behavior beauty, scientific beauty, order beauty, health beauty, diligence beauty, art beauty contained in various disciplines, which are rich aesthetic education resources contained in the spirit of Chinese aesthetic education and national aesthetic characteristics. We can organically integrate the content of aesthetic education in related disciplines, promote the deep combination of curriculum teaching with social practice and campus culture, and actively develop interdisciplinary teaching and off-campus practice with aesthetic themes.
The comprehensive quality of an individual is closely related to the environment in which he lives. Schools should encourage them to actively participate in college students' comprehensive art exhibitions, competitions, and other activities, improve students' core qualities in artistic performance, innovation, and innovative practice, and cultivate their artistic specialties. College students should be encouraged to make use of their talents and devote themselves to the campus, community cultural environment, and the construction of new countryside, to serve the local economy and society. It should be clear that an art practice workshop should be established to establish an art practice base that is integrated with the local areas, and students' overall aesthetic experience should be improved through the practice of different categories of skills. Aesthetic education in the new period, based on the research of traditional aesthetic education, should combine with the current teaching practice in local universities, innovate it, and build a set of long-term aesthetic education evaluation feedback mechanisms focusing on students' sustainable development. Guided by the teaching idea of "output as the center", the development situation of graduates majoring in art in aesthetic education should be continuously tracked and investigated, and feedback analysis should be made to improve the specific strategies of aesthetic education in universities and promote the reform and practice of aesthetic education. to truly cultivate a group of virtuous, positive, forge ahead, willing to contribute, with solid professional knowledge of the subject and sound quality of "estheticians". In the new period, aesthetic education is a bridge to cultivate the overall quality of college students. Facing the task of art education, we must constantly improve the level of aesthetic education, and explore the implementation strategy of aesthetic education,to make aesthetic education return to the original face of education.
China's excellent cultural tradition is inseparable from seeking knowledge and self-cultivation. If a person does not have good ideological and moral backing, it is impossible to contribute what he has learned to the country and the people. The harm of "having talent without virtue" is far more than that of "having virtue without talent". Students majoring in art have a strong sense of "self", they are more flamboyant,and more individual. If proper guidance is given in the school teaching process, and emphasis is placed on the cultivation and guidance of this group's correct aesthetic concept, awareness of right and wrong, and ability to create beauty, the effect of aesthetic and moral education is not inferior to that of college students of other majors. Aesthetic education and moral education exist in symbiosis in time and interpenetration in space, and the two complement each other. The continuous optimization of aesthetic education can open up a new way for moral education, which needs the support of aesthetic education. There are some differences between aesthetic education and moral education. Aesthetic education is a kind of shared and rational behavior, that is not subject to any restriction, nor does it aim at the direct goal of politics, economy, etc. It is more subject to the restriction of law, public order, and folk custom. Through moral education, the ideological and political ideas of contemporary art students can be purified, and the aesthetic emotions can be sublimated in the purification. In actual operation, they can more deeply realize the deep meaning of moral and aesthetic education, and implement the truth, goodness, and beauty into their actions. Therefore, in the aesthetic education and moral education work in universities, aesthetic education and moral education work are mutually promoting.
On the practical level, the implementation of aesthetic education is related to how to effectively inherit and carry forward Chinese traditional culture. As the inheritors of cultural concepts, art students should combine aesthetic education with their occupation, actively improve their aesthetic judgment, and contribute to the artistic creation in the professional field, to promote aesthetic education work in the university. For educators, basic aesthetic education requires them to guide students from an aesthetic perspective, so that they can set up the active thinking of the subject, and thus affect the actual life and practice. In fine arts education, we should insist on improving the important position of aesthetic education. Under the guidance of this concept, aesthetic education should be carried out for art students, so that they can take aesthetic education as the core and promote the study of moral education, intellectual education, physical education, labor education, and other fields.