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Ministry of Education: Medium-term plan for continuous aesthetic education in the next five years

Xiulin Elementary School in Nantou County held the "Beauty of Taiwan - Bamboo (Chasing) Dreams" course, and students used homemade bamboo flutes to play "High Mountain Green"
Xiulin Elementary School in Nantou County held the "Beauty of Taiwan - Bamboo (Chasing) Dreams" course, and students used homemade bamboo flutes to play "High Mountain Green"
All 16 students from Guanyin Elementary School in Hualien organized a concert and performed "Ocean" with homemade instruments 1
All 16 students from Hualien Guanyin Elementary School jointly held a concert, playing "Ocean" with homemade instruments

The Ministry of Education has been promoting the "Medium and Long-term Plan for Aesthetic Education" since the 103rd year of the Republic of China. A total of 4 billion yuan has been earmarked for five years, which will end at the end of this year. Zhu Nanxian, chief secretary of the Ministry of Education, said today that the mid-term plan for aesthetic education in the next five years will still be Continue to strengthen and improve students’ aesthetic literacy.

The "Cross-disciplinary Aesthetic Education Experimental Curriculum Development Project" commissioned by the Ministry of Education and implemented by National Taiwan Normal University is part of the Ministry of Education's mid- to long-term plan for aesthetic education. With the launch of the first phase of the aesthetic education project in 1999, Expired in 107, the "Cross-disciplinary Aesthetic Education Experimental Curriculum Development Plan" has also been promoted for five years and the second phase of the plan. It has received investment from 177 junior high schools, high schools, and elementary schools across the country, and has designed nearly 300 lesson plans, with fruitful results.

In order to let more people understand the diverse appearance and promotion status of cross-field courses, and to carry out international exchanges, National Taiwan Normal University, together with the Asia-Pacific Aesthetic Education Research Laboratory of the National Institute of Education, Taipei City University, National Taiwan University of the Arts, and National Taichung University of Education Today and tomorrow, the "Art of Golden Orchid Cultivation of Beauty—2018 International Seminar on Cross-Field Beauty Education" will be held.

Zhu Nanxian, director-general secretary of the Ministry of Education, said in his speech that aesthetic education is a core competency that students in the 21st century should possess. In the next five years, the mid-term plan for aesthetic education will continue to strengthen students' aesthetic literacy.

Zhu Nanxian also explained to cross-field aesthetic education scholars in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia that in the past five years, the Ministry of Education has allocated 12 million US dollars (approximately NT$4 billion) to promote aesthetic education in various forms, including seminars, workshops, and The school curriculum design hopes to increase international exchanges in the future, introduce more international information on aesthetic education, and help Taiwan develop better practices in developing aesthetic literacy.

School children were also invited to perform on-site performances on the achievements of cross-disciplinary aesthetic education. The "Maple Forest Children's Concert" of Guanyin Elementary School in Hualien involved all students in the school and used the large natural resources near the school, bamboo, coconut, abel, and maple, to make percussion instruments. , when the students sang "Ocean" by the hit song king Chen Jianmin while playing instruments, the onlookers and students could not help but sway to the brisk and special rhythm.

Students from Xiulin Elementary School in Nantou made pan flutes and various musical instruments out of bamboo, playing the music of "Alpine Green" with smooth and amazing music.

The seminar mainly focused on the results of the three-year "Second Interdisciplinary Aesthetic Education Experimental Curriculum Development Plan for Secondary Schools and Elementary Schools" as the main axis, and invited domestic and foreign scholars to gather together to stir up the interactive brilliance of theory and practice related to art education. . The content plan includes special speeches by international scholars, special forums by domestic scholars, cross-field aesthetic course presentations by teachers from cooperative schools, and workshops by the Asia-Pacific Aesthetic Education Research Laboratory, etc.

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