Xue Gao

Xue Gao

December 31, 2025

Public art courses, Aesthetic education practice bases, Development model, Collaborative education.

Aesthetic education is an important way to enhance the aesthetic literacy of college students, cultivate their sentiments, warm their hearts, and stimulate their innovative and creative vitality. Currently, although significant progress has been made in the field of aesthetic education in Chinese colleges and universities, there are still widespread problems such as a focus on skills over literacy, a focus on theory over practice, and insufficient coordination of resources, which hinder the full play of aesthetic education functions. This article aims to explore an innovative model of constructing a comprehensive university aesthetic education practice bases with public art courses as the core. This article first elaborates on the core values and mission of university aesthetic education, and analyzes the current practical difficulties faced by university aesthetic education practices. On this basis, this article proposes a trinity development model of "curriculum - platform - mechanism" for aesthetic education practice bases: its core is to construct a multi-level, modular public art curriculum system of "compulsory courses + elective courses + workshop", achieving a deep integration of knowledge imparting and aesthetic experience; Its carrier is to build a practical platform that combines physical and virtual teaching, creation, performance, and communication, breaking the boundaries of traditional classrooms; Its guarantee is to establish long-term operational mechanisms such as cross departmental collaborative management, integration of internal and external resources, and equal emphasis on evaluation and incentives for both processes and outcomes. This model emphasizes student-centered approach, elevating aesthetic education from scattered extracurricular activities to a systematic education project through the core guiding role of the curriculum and the platform support function of the practice base. This achieves the coordinated development of knowledge, abilities, and literacy, and cultivates a new generation of people with noble aesthetic pursuits, noble personality cultivation, and strong innovation abilities.

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