知行张力、多媒介性与感同体验——当前大学美育的三个问题

Tension of Knowledge and Action, Intermediality and Empathic Experience: Three Issues of Current Aesthetic Education in Universities

中国大学美育正面临一个新的发展阶段,面临许多挑战性的问题。其一是大学美育理论与实践的张力,这一张力体现在学术话语、学术共同体和课程体系三个方面,解决这一矛盾的路径在于如何建构一个有效的平台,让各自在倾听、互动和合作中形成合力;其二是大学美育的艺术门类专业化所导致的单媒性教学局限,引入多媒介性的艺术教学可拓宽美育的课程内容,有助于克服单媒局限性;其三是应把感同体验能力的涵育设定为大学美育的基本目标,美育可以通过审美想象来培养感同体验能力,进而提升青年学子富有人道精神的伦理情操,这在当下中国社会文化转型时期具有相当重要的意义。

Aesthetic education in Chinese universities is stepping into a new stage of development, and facing a variety of challenges. The first one is the tension between the theory and practice of university aesthetic education, which is embodied in academic discourse, academic community and curriculum system. The way to solve this contradiction lies in how to construct an effective platform for each to form a joint force by means of listening, interaction and cooperation. The second one is the specialization of art in university aesthetic education, which results in the limitation of single-media teaching. However, the introduction of art teaching with intermediality can broaden the curriculum content of aesthetic education and help overcome the limitation of single-media. The third one is to set the cultivation of empathic experiential ability as the basic goal of university aesthetic education. Indeed, aesthetic education can cultivate empathic experiential ability through aesthetic imagination, and thus enhance youth’s ethical sentiment with humanistic spirit, which is of great significance in the current period of social and cultural transformation in China.