The Lost And Rebuilding

This dissertation focuses on art education model in Chineseprofessional schools of higher education level. It studies the evolvingprocess covering the originating, evolving, and solidifying stages,analyzing the innate characteristics and influential factors,dissecting essential materials, revisiting experiences, hence resultedin a new vision for constructing contemporary professional art educationmodel, while tested with specific projects. This dissertation willpresent certain academic thoughts based on the study of art educationtheory. The dissertation comprises of four parts.The first part deals with the issues emerged with the professionalart education model, smoothing out the problems while analyzing itspivotal and decisive effect upon art education and talent training. Itdefines the core concepts and sphere of study.The second part concentrates on the evolution of twentieth centuryart teaching model, differentiating the trail of borrowing and copyingof regular and academic schools.The third is by analyzing their Westernized technique proposals,judging criteria, theoretical stands, and value systems, it is to revealthat through the combined efforts of misunderstood West and remadetradition, Chinese art education during the last hundred years has beentrapped in the lost of cultural identity, and confusion of value judgment, and monochromatic criterion.The fourth put rebuilding of the subjectivity of Chinese culture asthe theoretical premise, arguing the paths and projects for constructingChinese contemporary art education. The fundamental ideas thatrebuilding upon subjectivity is the prerequisite for achieving values,is the safeguard for obtaining autonomy, is the basis for constructinga model, will sustain the making of a art education model which facesmutual objectives of education, culture, and art; The ideas for newconstruction is based on "strengthening contents of Chinese art,underpinning with Chinese art methods, while establishing pluralistvalue system in art education".The fifth are of the Humanities as the core artistic disciplines,and proposes a teaching model with two stages and four modules as"academic basis plus creative practices". It use plastic art major asan example, discussing the issues like value guiding in its four corecurriculum blocks, while suggesting a two stage module with open system,guaranteeing an effective inter-disciplinary studio system, and anoperating system with goal differentiation and credit system, and apluralist, independent evaluation mechanism. Furthermore, based on apersonal experiences and current development, it envisions the positiveimpacts of main theme like educational reform, mechanism transformingof "problem consciousness", and promoting the creativity ofteacher-artist, will be in the constructing of a new art education model.The final part comes to two conclusion of this dissertation. Theemphasis of the cultural intention of constructing Chinese contemporaryart education, is actually a self-motivated, self-conscious, autonomous,self-determined cultural action and educational practice to reshapingChinese cultural subjectivity in art education, while forming asteadfast cultural stand of Chinese art to express the teaching idealin an art education that celebrate the unique values of Chinese art while promoting the free spirit of art.