The Aesthetic Education Curriculum Based on Activity Theory to Promote College Students’ Body and Mind Harmonious Development
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In the context of deepening education reform and promoting the comprehensive development of quality education, a series of important meetings of the 18th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China in 2013 raised the strategic issue of "strengthening Aesthetic education", with the aim of fostering new-age talents with an aesthetic sense of humor, creativity and all-around literacy. However, during the implementation of Aesthetic education practice, it has been found that the current Aesthetic education curriculum is still narrowly defined in public perception, which limits its educational effectiveness. With the advancement of education concepts, Aesthetic education curriculum should pay more attention to the student-centered promotion of students' body and mind harmonious and comprehensive development. Therefore, in this context, the development of an Aesthetic education curriculum based on Activity theory and aimed at promoting the body and mind harmonious development of college students is particularly urgent and important.
The research objectives were: 1) to investigate the current situation and effectiveness of college students’ body and mind harmonious development, 2) to develop aesthetic education curriculum based on activity theory to promote college students’ body and mind harmonious development, 3) to assess the aesthetic education curriculum based on activity theory through comparing to the college students’ body and mind harmonious before and after the implementation of curriculum.
The population of this study was 300 freshmen majoring in art and design in 2023 at Guangxi University of Science and Technology. the samples are 170 freshmen participated in a survey on the status of body and mind harmonious development of university students and 30 freshman students participated in the pilot study. This research tool was questionnaire on the current status of body and mind harmonious development of college students and Body and Mind Harmonious Development Scale. The statistic used were frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation, and t-test for dependent sample.
The results of this study were as follows:1) the current situation and effectiveness of college students’ body and mind harmonious of respondents were in high level, considering each item separately, it was found that, “Physical health” was the highest rank, followed by “Value of life” “Aesthetic ability”, “Social adaptation”, “Psycho emotional” respectively, 2) the goal of the aesthetic education curriculum based on activity theory to promote college students’ body and mind harmonious development was to improve the body and mind harmonious development of freshmen students. The curriculum consisted of five units, totaling 24 hours of "The aesthetic education curriculum based on activity theory to promote college students’ body and mind harmonious development" were offered. 3). after attending the 24-hour course, there was a significant increase in the development of body and mind harmonious development of students (t = 6.43). sig. = 0.00). at the same time, the five dimensions of value of life, aesthetic ability, physical health, social adaptation, and psycho-emotional were also improved.
The results of the study show that the implementation of the experimental programme has significant effectiveness in promoting the body and mind harmonious development of college students. This educational tool not only improves students' aesthetic ability, but also has a positive effect on the value of life, physical health, social adaptation and psycho-emotional and other dimensions, which has a comprehensive and far-reaching impact on the promotion of college students' body and mind harmonious development.
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