Zeng Fanren is a well-known contemporary Chinese esthetician.He has written extensively and made important contributions in the fields of literary aesthetics,ecological aesthetics,and aesthetic education.As an important field of Zeng Fanren’s academic research,aesthetic education has achieved a series of innovative results.His thoughts on aesthetic education not only have distinctive characteristics of the times,but also excavate ancient Chinese traditional aesthetic education resources on the basis of drawing lessons from western aesthetic education theories.He also proceeded from reality and enriched aesthetic education thoughts from his personal teaching practice.It can be said that his research plays a leading role in the development of contemporary aesthetic education theory.This article is mainly divided into three chapters.The first chapter analyzes the theoretical resources of the formation of Zeng Fanren’s aesthetic education thought.Zeng Fanren’s aesthetic education thoughts are based on Chinese local aesthetic education resources and at the same time absorbed western aesthetic education theories.On the basis of grasping the concepts of Chinese and Western aesthetic education as a whole,it also pays attention to the latest progress of aesthetic related disciplines,and introduces the research results of psychology,brain science and other disciplines into the research of aesthetic education,injecting fresh blood into the development of contemporary aesthetic education.The second chapter discusses the theoretical connotation of Zeng Fanren’s aesthetic education thought.Zeng Fanren believes that aesthetic education is first of all about human education.Through aesthetic education,people’s aesthetic emotions can be stimulated,people’s spiritual realm can be improved,and people subjective power can be fully awakened.In the education system,aesthetic education is not only an independent category,but also has an “intermediary” status.It can regulate and promote the development of other sports,thereby promoting the improvement of people“aesthetic power”.As a highly practical subject,the study of aesthetic education should not only stay at the theoretical level,but also pay attention to the implementation of aesthetic education.As one of the most important ways,school aesthetic education undertakes the main task of aesthetic education.Zeng Fanren also attaches great importance to life aesthetic education.Life aesthetic education runs through a person’s life.Cultivating “life artists” is the ultimate pursuit of aesthetic education.The third chapter discusses the academic approach of Zeng Fanren’s aesthetic education thought.Zeng Fanren has achieved pioneering results in the study of ecological aesthetics,and implemented his understanding of ecological ontology into his aesthetic education concepts.In terms of research methods,he emphasized that the research methods of natural science should be incorporated into the research of aesthetic education.It is precisely because he has always maintained a broad vision and an enterprising attitude that the development of aesthetic education presents a new form of integration of neuroaesthetics,ecological aesthetics and aesthetic education.In terms of practice,Zeng Fanren always discusses the development of aesthetic education based on the background of the times,which is of great value to the construction of contemporary aesthetic education.With the background of popular culture,he paid attention to the important influence of visual culture on contemporary society,and proposed to pay attention to visual education.Under the educational trend of“aesthetic education of college”,a complete aesthetic education system has been constructed.At the same time,Zeng Fanren’s aesthetic education thought explored a Chinese road for the development of contemporary Chinese aesthetic education. |