An Exploration of the Path Leading to University Students’ Aesthetic View

Promoting ideological and political education in higher educational institutions and persistently defending the most important position of ideology is the focal point of the work of central communist party in recent years, and young people especially university students are the leaders and successors of the construction of socialism with Chinese characteristics for an new era. This year is the 40th year of reform and opening-up, and with the penetration of opening up to the outer world and economic globalization, the conflicts and integration of values of different regions faraway is the current situation of ideological field. As front-line educators of ideological courses of higher education, we should be determined to keep intact the most important position of ideology, implement all policies of central communist party aiming at higher education, and preserve the principles of educating students in all dimensions. Therefore it’s high time that we facilitated the education of three views especially life value and aesthetic view based on classroom teaching. Key words—ideological and political education, aesthetic education ,life value, aesthetic view. A lot of policies concerning strengthening ideological development have been made since President Xi took his office. In recent years, a lot of popular terms sprang up among public opinions, including “the central value of socialism”, “self-confidence in one’s culture”, “to enhance cultural soft power”, etc., and have been continuously delivered to all trades as the new principles of ideological development. The entire year 2017 is the model year of the teaching of ideology and politics conducted by the ministry of education in colleges and universities, which, together with the teaching atmosphere largely influenced by the intense study of ideology, already drag the culture of students outside the box of the education of ideology and politics in a simple and monotonous way. Influenced by social networks and opinions, the three views of college students tend increasingly multiple, and their trails of life richer and more diverse. As a university lecturer of ideology-related courses and from the experience of teaching and practising, I find it more important to promote value education under the domain of ideological and political education, and that the approaches to deliver values of positive energy to students have to be complemented every now and then. What’s more, to cultivate people with aesthetics and culture people with literacy is salutary education, which will naturally refine one’s character. So we can say aesthetic education is a relatively advantageous course via which to conduct ideological and political education, in terms of both its form and content. During my ideological classes and communication with students after class, I realize that most students of this time used to focus only on subject courses in middle school, but lacked moral education such as thinking and characters and so on, especially aesthetic education, which includes aesthetic value and the refinery of aesthetic characters. But aesthetic education is an fundamental part to build perfect personalities for university students and guide their three views to a right direction. Like a shorter side to a barrel, the absence of aesthetic ability obviously is a detailed curb to university students’ all-round development. Some students of the private university where I worked are limited in their capability, and it is found according to research that many students didn’t realize what is aesthetics or aesthetic value before university, even couldn’t clearly tell beauty from ugliness in a common sense. Of all students, no more than 5% can unambiguously tell the definition of beauty and ugliness, less than 3.5% are able to accurately tell what’s aesthetics, and less than 1% can precisely tell what’s aesthetic value. These problems have caused, at least to some degree, obstacles to the facilitation of ideological and political education among university students as well as great trouble to their campus life. They are not only possible causes for students’ diverse values, but more likely to misplace their focal points in life for which they may lose themselves. So giving it a try to all kinds of extended practices and activities in and after class, students of private university will get to start from their real life, enhance their perception level of aesthetic principles through practice from emotional realization to rational recognition, and totally match aesthetic education with ideological and political education. Students accept more easily what they have learned, and teachers connect theories with realities during their teaching, in which way the two dimensions of form and content in education process will be fully attained. Only through ideological course of this depth and density can students be impressed, improved and internalize the knowledge they have learned [1]. Healthy, positive aesthetic value of good energy will become a bright part of the ideology of students of private university, changing their air in a brand new way. Only when they build right three views scientifically will university students be capable enough to pass on the core values of Chinese socialism and take the responsibility for the construction of socialism with Chinese characteristics for a new era. Ideological and political education nowadays gradually returns to its main stand: to take students as its basic part, and take education as its main task instead of mediating with the teaching syllabus of every semester. At currency the reform of ideological courses has achieved great success, providing multiple practical ways and orientation for working out the difficulties in the teaching of these courses.It gradually raises the position of ideological courses, eliminates students’ misunderstanding and contradicting thoughts towards ideological and political courses, and makes them more influential and 8th International Conference on Education and Management (ICEM 2018) Copyright © 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press. 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