美育研究的新突破(上)——评“美育形式”说

A New Breakthrough of the Study of Aesthetic Education—— A Comment on Theory of " the Form of Aesthetic Education"

这种学说认为,美育以培养和发展人的审美能力为目的,故从价值功能的角度,把美育看作是提高教育功效的有力手段和重要工具。其主要贡献,是提出了“立美教育”的新概念,即美育要发挥育人功能,展开审美活动,就必须先建立美的教育形式。“美的教育形式”是教育自身之美的存在方式,是对教育规律能动运用、自由创新的产物。并非如以往的美育观所认为的那样:美育不过是对自然美、科学美、社会美、艺术美等外在美的简单照搬和借用。这一观念的“向内转”,标志着对以往美育研究的新突破,为一种崭新的美育观、教育观的出现打开了思路。

The theory holds that aesthetic education is aiming at cultivating and developing the human aesthetic judgement, so at the angle of value function, it regards aesthetic education a.s a powerful means or an important tool. Its main contribution is that it has put forward the new concept of the ＂education for aesthetic establishment＂, i.e. it stands for establishing the form of aesthetic education before giving full play to the cultivating function and organizing the activities of aesthetic appreeiation. What the pr＇evious edueational view held in the past is not the case： the aesthetic education is only simple copying or using of external beauty such as natural beauty, scientific beauty, social beauty, art beanty, etc. The change of this conception from＂ external＂ to ＂internal＂ marks a new breakthrough off the previous study and research of aesthetic education. It starts the train of thought for the appearance of a completely new aesthetic and education view.