“一方水土养一方人”——论地域文学在高校美育中的作用

A Place Where You Live Makes a Man Who You Are:On the Influence of Regional Literature in Aesthetic Education in Colleges and Universities

高校是大学生心智成熟和人格塑造的关键阶段,如何针对大学生实施美育是高校教育者需要关注的问题之一,高校教育者可以尝试借助地域文学所具有的特性促成这一愿景的实现。"一方水土养一方人",地域文学的"地方"色彩,契合"以美感人"的美育特点,尤其是"方言"和"风土人情",是大学生更易于接受的感性因素;地域文学与它所生成的生态场域——自然地理环境和社会人文环境关系密不可分,学生通过对地域文学作品的审美,可以更深刻地理解社会生活的"情"和"理",能达到"以美启真"的美育效果;地域文学所具有的优秀文化品格,可以在潜移默化中滋养学生的精神气质,有助于实现"以美化人"的目的。

For students of colleges and universities learning period plays a critical role in the shaping of their personality and becoming mature. Therefore, great attention needs to be paid to the implementation of aesthetic education in colleges and universities. It is suggested in this paper that features of regional literature should get exploited to achieve the goal by educators. With the idea of “a place where you live makes a man who you are” in the mind, students in colleges and universities tend to accept regional literature due to its local features, touching characters with beauty of aesthetic education, especially dialects and local customs and practices. Moreover, regional literature is closely related to its ecological field, natural geographical environment and social and human environment. On appreciating regional literature, students can deeply understand “emotion” and “truth”, thus achieving the positive result of aesthetic education of “enlightenment with truth”. In addition, excellent cultural character of regional literature can nourish students’ spirit, and it is helpful to achieve the goal of changing students by beauty.