On Aesthetic Education Thought Of Cai Yuanpei And Its Modern Significance

The thought of Cai Yuanpei's aesthetic education that contains the rich humanity spirit, is the mingling result of perceptual and reason, is the mingling result of Chinese aesthetic education thought and Western aesthetic education thought. It has established fundamental modern aesthetic education of Chinese values, has established Cai Yuanpei's upper position in the history of Chinese aesthetic education and the history of Chinese aesthetics and the history of Chinese education. It has significant theory significance and practice value to the modernist on studying aesthetic education.Basis on studying of prehuman, the article summarizes the content and characteristic of Cai Yuanpei's aesthetic education thought by analysing it's basis, from the angle of modern aesthetic education, to make effort to carry out the thorough and systematic field on Cai Yuanpei's aesthetic education, to expound it's modern significance on the basis. The paper is divided into four parts.Part one: The basis of Cai Yuanpei's Aesthetic Education thought. Cai Yuanpei's aesthetic education thought is the synthetic products of east and west cultures, is also the psychological development and the pursuit of aesthetic education in the duet of salvation and enlightenment. The philosophical basis of Cai Yuanpei's aesthetic education thought is composed of Kant Dualism's philosophical thought and The traditional Doctrine of Mean thought. The aesthetic basis of Cai Yuanpei's aesthetic education thought is composed of Kant'aesthetic disinterestedness and Schiller's aesthetics thought. The education basis of Cai Yuanpei's aesthetic education thought is composed of the fine traditional of ancient Chinese morality education.Part two: The connotation of Cai Yuanpei's Aesthetic Education thought. From the part of aesthetic education essence, the performance and the practice theory, the article discusses and studies thoroughly, and outlines the theoretical profile of Cai Yuanpei's aesthetic education thought initially, and constructs the research frame of Cai Yuanpei's aesthetic education thought, and excavate constructive connotation sufficiently. Speaking of the aesthetic education essence, Cai Yuanpei thinks that the aesthetic education is one kind of multiplex comprehensive perceptual education, is the important constituent of his modern education system. The significance of aesthetic education is not only the important method of knowing and transforming the world, but also the important way of realizing human own beautification and the perfect personality. In addition, the aesthetic education has the content which the education cannot cover completely, so we may inspect it in the cultural structure. Speaking of the aesthetic function, Cai Yuanpei thinks that the aesthetic education can educate to transcend the spirit, foster the noble personality and performance culture. Speaking of the aesthetic education performance, Cai Yuanpei thinks that the aesthetic education nurture human through many kinds of aesthetic ways. The article grasps it from two aspects: the form aesthetic, the life aesthetic, they are manifested concretely: aesthetic principle, the individual aesthetic, the marriage aesthetic and the community life aesthetic. Speaking of the aesthetic education practice, the article grasps it from two aspects: the aesthetic education practice condition and the emphasis point. In his opinions, the aesthetic education practice condition includes: the value orientation of freedom of thought, harmonious educational policy and aesthetic education life procedure. Aesthetic education emphasis point includes environment art education and music drawing education. Environment art education mainly includes the urban planning and the construction aesthetic education.Part three: The characteristic of Cai Yuanpei's Aesthetic Education thought. Cai Yuanpei's aesthetic education thought which formed in distinctive culture background, pays great attention to human's spiritual experience, pursues the individual life health growth in the value goal. We summarize the characteristic of Cai Yuanpei aesthetic education thought for the intense humanities breath, the intrinsic unification of aesthetic education and the life, rich ecological environment consciousness. Specifically, the intense humanities breath must be understood from two aspects: the simultaneous development of perceptual and reason, individual independent; The intrinsic unification of aesthetic education and life must be understood from enriching the life experience personally; Rich ecological environment consciousness mainly displays the harmony of human and nature.Part four: The modern significance of Cai Yuanpei's Aesthetic Education thought. the consciousness of humanity, ecology and fusion idea which are contained in Cai Yuanpei's esthetic education thought is the good medicine which cures the contemporary disease of utilitarianism, technical principle development, and humanity spirit loss. And so it will use reference for the modern aesthetic education theory and construction and development of society. The modern significances are manifested concretely: the significance to the modern education reform and the education for all-around implementation, to advocate big aesthetic education view, to foster the consummation personality, to construct the ecological environment, and the enlightenment to construct harmonious social. This is the significance of our studying into this issue.