Exploring the Implementation Path of Aesthetic Education in Primary and Secondary Schools in Ethnic Minority Areas — Take Xining City, Qinghai Province, China As an Example
Wang Baoqin
(Department of Chinese Language and Literature, Xinhua College, Guangzhou, China)
Abstract: 2015, the “Opinions on Comprehensively Strengthening and Improving School Art Education” were issued, proposing to comprehensively strengthen and improve school art education; In 2018, with the convening of the National Education Work Conference, the importance of aesthetic education was further established in the goal of cultivating socialist qualified successors and builders with comprehensive development of morality, intelligence, physical fitness, aesthetics, and labor skills; In 2020, a preliminary situation of mutual promotion of aesthetic education in primary and secondary schools and higher education was formed; In the same year, the “Opinions on Strengthening and Improving School Art Education in the New Era” were issued, and art education became an important component of the “Five Major Education” strategy. As a remote minority city in western China, Xining actively explores effective ways to implement aesthetic education in primary and secondary schools in ethnic development areas of China, taking into account the characteristics of the region, students, and aesthetic education, adapting to local conditions and the times, and facing new historical opportunities and challenges. This has profound significance. Translated in 2015, the “Opinions on Comprehensively Strengthening and Improving School Art Education Work” was issued, proposing to comprehensively strengthen and improve school art education work; In 2018, with the convening of the National Education Conference, the importance of aesthetic education was further established in the training objectives of socialist qualified successors and builders with comprehensive development of morality, intelligence, physical fitness, aesthetics, and labor skills; In 2020, a preliminary situation of mutual promotion of aesthetic education in primary, secondary, and tertiary education was formed; In the same year, the “Opinions on Strengthening and Improving the Art Education Work in Schools in the New Era” were issued, and art education became one of the key components of the “Five Education” strategy. As a remote ethnic minority city in western China, Xining actively explores effective paths for the implementation of aesthetic education in primary and secondary schools in ethnic development areas of China, taking into account the characteristics of the region, students, and aesthetic education, adapting to local conditions and times, and facing new historical opportunities and challenges, which has profound significance.
Key words: ethnic regions, primary and secondary schools, Aesthetic education, implementation path, explore
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