The search for education since the 1920s has been “people-centred” and revolved around “all-round human development”, with educational theories and practices competing. Before and after the new millennium, china's education for the public interest, drawing on the experience of previous generations, went from “life education” of the chinese society for the study of taoists to “art education” of one-person-story theatre to “natural education” of the friends of nature, hoping to help children grow up fully through different forms of aesthetic education。
As a public-interest organization that explores future education, the junior schooling program also seeks to teach children about differences, acceptance of gaps and attempts to experience and create beauty, and to understand the world and themselves in an integrated way by learning about science and technology。
Reconstructing the image and creating it will never end
Students from young schools first learned the skills of photography and video, whether or not they had the task of active classes, and if they had the time to do so, they would find a way to take the pictures and videos they wanted, with little regard for their “image problems”。
However, photography and video are only the beginning and far from meeting the needs of students to express themselves. Students with material quickly discovered the powerful function of imovie, and spontaneously studied how this software could be used to produce video clips. And in order to make their short films more viewable and beautiful, the students began to learn how to plan. Everything is a stranger to exploration, but interest leads to enthusiasm and the pursuit of beauty, and students try to express themselves in an increasingly mature way。
What else can i do to make a video? A photo by xiao xian students because his unique perspective attracted the attention of the project teacher, who introduced him to some sutures and asked him to try it himself. This photo was originally written by hyun, who was crouched on the right-hand desk of the jury during the may border town primary school drum contest. After being recreated, xiao xian became a new work, which he named " the black hole " . What's a black hole? This is a problem that scientists are exploring, and it must be mysterious and desirable for a fifth grader。
Suture. "swipe black hole."
The magic of art and beauty lies in the endless process. It can be a photo, it can be a suture; it can be a video, it can be a short film, all of which is an experience in your life。
One of the happy lies is that when you go to primary school, parents say, "it's okay, it's okay to go to junior high." when you go to junior high school, parents say, "it's okay, it's okay to go to high school." when you go to high school, parents say, "it's okay, it's okay to go to college." when you go to college, parents say, "it's okay to work." yet you look forward with hope to an early end to the bitter phase, and to a faster period of sweetness, while missing the opportunity to experience life in its entirety。
For life, perhaps death is the end, and perhaps not even death. Its process should be based on the natural strength of the river, rather than on the construction of dams to accumulate or dry up rivers. Art and beauty can make every completion a new beginning, a continuation and a re-construction that should be our attitude to life。
I've learned to appreciate the difference
In addition to the programmes already designed and completed for students, it is hoped that local resources will be fully utilized to bring more and richer learning experiences to students. It is hoped that they will understand that learning is not the 45 minutes of the classroom, not the years of the school, but the ubiquitous exploration of the unknown, which is accompanied by a lifelong process of growth。
Many of the villages in yunnan, which have been vacated by the border towns, still retain china's oldest manual paper copying technology, which is said to have been inherited by the ancestors of the local population for over 300 years. The galligon paper museum, which was set up quietly in the xinjiang, won the “best public building award” awarded by the united states building records in 2012, which is also the venue for aesthetic education chosen by young students。
Is paper beautiful? Do you remember the joy of opening paints and cartridges? Do you remember the idea of thinking about blue and red? But do you remember the white paper before it went down? Maybe we're used to seeing the work, and we've ignored the beauty of things. However, the hand-written paper practice at the galligon paper museum will lead children to experience the beauty of everything, and from one thing to another. This succession and change are also linked to history and the future。
The students are feeling the raw material of handprints
During the first weekend of the museum, students learned to make hand-drawn paper, tearing and chewing the bark of a tree in front of a bucket of hand-drawn paper. Following a demonstration of the paper process by the curator and staff at the workshop, the students imitated the process of completing the distribution of fibres with a special mini version, and learned the strength needed to make the paper from the movement of control。
The students make their own handprints
By the time the final process is completed, the students take the dry paper they make and communicate with each other. When the director took a contrast between modern industrial paper and hand-written paper, the students, in plain and vivid language, described how they felt:
"the handprint is radiated by the sun, and it can see the fibers inside!"
"soft paper!"
"it's starting to taste bad, chewing more
"a plain paper will melt in the water, not a handprint!"
Yes, everything has its own unique characteristics, and they are not superior. And when you need a light paper to write, you choose industrial paper, and when you want to be a collection of crafts, maybe a handwritten paper with a historical breath becomes your first choice. Different things are needed because of their own characteristics, and when they are not chosen or are asked to change, we cannot deny their own beauty. It's like we can't say that the bark is beautiful and the handwritten paper is not beautiful, or vice versa; nor can we say that the handwritten paper is beautiful and the industrial paper is not beautiful, or vice versa. We should learn to appreciate everything that exists, and it is the differences that enrich the world。
Students are comparing paper copying with industry. Paper
Both the ancient greek “seven arts” and the ancient qin “six arts” can see the content of aesthetic education, while schiller's aesthetic education brief marks an independent theoretical system of aesthetic education. Schiller believes that modern society can bind human beings to a single piece of debris, and eventually develop them into pieces, and through aesthetic education can reconcile reason and sense, thought and affection, reason and body. In the face of the inevitable human fragmentation of modern society, we need to learn to view life as a complete process that enriches the experience of life with an attitude of continuity and reconstruction。
As the division of labour in modern societies becomes more and more sophisticated, it becomes increasingly difficult for people to live alone, and cooperation becomes the dominant melody of human interaction. As we live together, we will find that we are increasingly different from each other, and we will learn to appreciate those differences and to understand that others are inclusive of ourselves. Since human differences were accepted, it would be absurd to have uniform trade-offs. The one-size-fits-all of fractions and academic qualifications will no longer be able to take the shape of the human person needed in this era; the functioning of society can no longer be sustained by a screw instead of a screw, but by the interaction, tolerance and stimulation of components with different shapes and functions。
How can individuals identify themselves when a unified judgement is becoming ineffective? How do people who are lacking determine whether they can be full and independent? How can individuals, as parts and components of social machinery, gain the respect that is unique to life? Only by looking at yourself from the past, the present, the future, from the self, from others, from nature, from the work, from these different dimensions, and looking for a link with each other, can you give yourself a place and become an independent person. This is what aesthetic education can teach us。
