Abstract:

While practical experience in aesthetic education may offer valuable feedback to aesthetics, the more crucial relationship lies in the enlightening and guiding intellectual force that aesthetics, as the foundational theory of aesthetic education, provides to both the understanding and practice of aesthetic education. It is essential to explore the theoretical connection between aesthetics and aesthetic education through methods such as logical analysis, categorization of intellectual resources, and cross-disciplinary analogies. Aesthetics contributes to aesthetic education in several key ways: it furnishes fundamental theoretical resources; it offers special analogical methods to strengthen the adaptability and validity of aesthetic judgments by means of cross-boundary insights between aesthetics and aesthetic education, among different aesthetic fields, and between aesthetic categories and educational practices; it provides feasible means of communication for aesthetic appreciation through metalinguistic discourse symbols and phenomenological analogies; and it opens up a broad cognitive space. Ultimately, aesthetics will assist aesthetic education throughout various practical processes in promoting and realizing the mind-body integrated personality growth of students as aesthetic beings.

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