Enhancing Artistic Creativity through Heuristic Teaching Methods

The essence of education is to cultivate individuals who are useful. The "people" being educated are the students, and teaching and learning are the essential components of the teaching process. There is also a positive interactive relationship between teachers and students, as well as among multiple parties. Heuristic teaching is a beneficial method and means to stimulate students' initiative during the teaching process. Currently, in the teaching of artistic language expression in Chinese universities' drama performance majors, the positioning of the major is often vague, and there is a significant issue of homogenization. Under this teaching philosophy, most students trained tend to have a high degree of homogeneity and lack the ability to cultivate independent personalities and characteristics in graduates. This study will use a literature review approach to compare traditional teaching methods and heuristic teaching methods. It has been found that the shortcomings of traditional teaching lie in an excessive emphasis on the teacher as the main actor, with a sole focus on knowledge transfer, neglecting the students' own creative thinking, and even limiting their creativity. When heuristic teaching is applied, the classroom becomes a place where teachers and students actively participate in and complete the teaching and learning activities together. It gives the initiative of "teaching and learning" back to the students. The teacher's role shifts from injecting knowledge to encouraging students to think and innovate actively, ultimately achieving artistic language expression where "a hundred people have different voices, a thousand people have different faces," rather than "a thousand people have the same face, ten thousand people have the same voice."