从“教育”到“美育”——20世纪初“美育”概念的一条重要演进路径

From “Education” to “Aesthetic Education”: An Important Evolution Path of the Concept of “Aesthetic Education” in the Early 20th Century

20世纪初,在教育学成为近现代中国显学,现代“教育”概念确立,教育与审美、艺术的关系受到普遍关注的时代背景下,“美育”概念应运而生。教育学奠定了“美育”概念的学理基础、基本意涵,为“美育”概念的流行提供了契机与土壤。与“美育”概念同时并存、在内涵上具有相通之处的还有“趣味教育”“情感教育”“文学教育”等概念,这些概念同样与近现代教育学具有密切关联。种种迹象表明,将“美育”概念置于近现代教育学的发展脉络之中,是准确理解近现代“美育”概念、美育思潮的一个关键。

In the early Twentieth Century, when pedagogy became modern China’s prominent learning, the concept of modern “education” was established, the relationship between education and aesthetics and art was widely concerned, and the concept of “aesthetic education” came into being. Pedagogy lays the theoretical foundation and basic meaning of the concept of “aesthetic education,” and provides the soil for the popularity of the concept of “aesthetic education.” There are various indications that putting the concept of aesthetic education in the development context of modern pedagogy is a key to accurately understand the concept of modern aesthetic education and the trend of aesthetic education.