Application Of Aesthetics To Chinese-Teaching In High Schools

In regard to Chinese-teaching in high schools, low efficiency has long been a perplexing problem which directly hinders the implementation of quality education. In the new era, on the shoulders of teachers of Chinese lay the urgent task of raising teaching efficiency, implementing quality education and bettering teaching method.This thesis is composed of three parts.Part One provides an analysis of current situation of Chinese-teaching in high schools, pointing out three major problems, namely, excessive emphasis on exam marks, rigid teaching method and low teaching efficiency. The reason lies in the outdated educational concept: Lack of adequate understanding of the subject results in the loss of humanistic elements in Chinese-teaching; ignorance of students' physical and mental characteristics turns students into "linguistic researchers" and "problem-solving machines;" in particular, neglect of the role of aesthetics hi teaching leads to a rigid teaching method which destroys students' interest in learning and reduces the teaching efficiency. In terms of these problems, the thesis expounds thepossibility of applying aesthetics to Chinese-teaching from three perspectives------theneed of aesthetics in teaching aim and for its receivers, aesthetics in the contents of the subject and its demonstration in the teaching process. Therefore, it is urgent and inexorable to implement aesthetics in Chinese-teaching.Part Two explores the possible way to implementing aesthetics in Chinese-teaching in both classroom instructions and extracurricular activities. First of all, aesthetics should be excavated in the process of lesson-preparation. The knowledge of students' mentality, interests and needs is a must for a teacher to extract aesthetics from the teaching materials and then employ suitable teaching method.Additionally, a teacher should trigger students' echo and transmit aesthetics to the receivers in the teaching process. The conduction of a lesson must conform to certain aesthetics principle, which requires a favorable classroom atmosphere and the teacher's enthusiasm to stimulate and transmit aesthetics. Finally, extracurricular activities are the extension of aesthetics. Various outside classroom activities help develop students' ability to solve problems independently and enjoy the pleasure of learning Chinese and cultivate a higher sense of aesthetics.Part Three points out the significance of implementing aesthetics in Chinese-teaching and sums up its four major features: concrete circumstance, mutual exchange, clear accordance and harmonious integration. By concrete circumstance, the teacher, via teaching contents and method, manages to create favorable circumstance to arouse students' echo and participation so as to exert an edifying influence on them. Mutual exchange lies in the fact that the teacher and the students are always exchanging complex message in their common participation in the teaching and learning process. The application of aesthetics to Chinese-teaching is implemented in accordance with the physical and mental characteristics of the students as well as the aim of the teaching material at introducing rudimentary literary knowledge. By harmonious integration, it means that Chinese-teaching is integrated with the over-all inculcating of morality, knowledge and aesthetics. The knowledge of these features is of great significance for the application of aesthetics to Chinese-teaching, especially at a time when quality education is being given great impetus to. As a kind of "feeling-arousing" teaching, it kindles students' enthusiasm and interest, improves their learning efficiency, and promotes their intellectual progress, and cultivates their ability to appreciate aesthetics and foster creativity. Furthermore, it opens up the way to a bright future for Chinese-teaching in high schools. Moreover, by offering an experimental method, it puts an end to the problem of how to teach. As an important reform, application of aesthetics to Chinese-teaching is the gold key to the implement...