news source: <Nanjing University Report>

The 113th academic year cross-domain aesthetic achievement sharing meeting of the cooperative schools in the Yunlin, Chiayi and Tainan districts under the Ministry of Education's "Cross-domain Aesthetic Education Excellence Pilot Program" was held at our school on June 27. A total of 18 cooperative schools from Yunlin County, Chiayi County and City, and Tainan City were brought together to showcase the diverse and rich results of the aesthetic education courses.

The event was hosted by Associate Professor Zhu Yunyi of the Department of Music of our school, who extended a welcome to the teachers, students and guests present. The guests included Principal Zeng Nanxun of Daxiang Elementary School, Principal Huang Yingjia of Liulin Elementary School, Principal Chen Liangtu of Heshun Elementary School and Secretary Zhou Wanping of the Chiayi County Education Bureau. They witnessed together that each school stimulated students' creativity and social care through cross-domain courses.

During the sharing session, schools such as Shengli Elementary School in Tainan City, Yongkang Junior High School, Chiayi University Elementary School, Chiayi City Yushan Junior High School and Yunlin County Yuren Elementary School integrated the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and international perspectives into their curriculum, from landscape surveys, seasonal diets, community connections to artistic creation, to guide students in practicing creation and expression; Chang'an Elementary School, Jiufenzi Junior High School and Elementary School, Xinmin Elementary School and Liulin Elementary School combined social emotional learning (SEL) with environmental education to cultivate students' keen awareness of themselves and the environment; Yuejin Elementary School, Heshun Elementary School, Zengwen Agricultural and Industrial School, Daxiang Elementary School, Chongwen Elementary School and Kouhu Junior High School deepened the connection between artistic practice and local culture through dolls, puppet shows, indigo dyeing, murals and music creation.

Dongshi High School takes the environment and students' spiritual inspiration as its starting point, beautifying the campus through courses and getting closer to students' experience; Yizhu Junior High School uses insects as its theme, combining crafts and technology to allow students to get closer to nature through creation; Jiali Junior High School uses the kabalink to combine music and visual arts, promoting creative experience to schools across Taiwan and expanding the influence of aesthetics.

The on-site teacher training committee expressed high recognition for the results of the various schools' intensive cultivation. Assistant Professor Huang Jingfang of the Department of Music at National Tainan University pointed out that these fruitful results are the result of teachers overcoming various challenges and continuing to invest. Associate Professor Huang Ruisong of the Department of Architecture and Interior Design at Yunlin University of Science and Technology also said that the cross-domain curriculum successfully inspired students' diverse abilities and deserves recognition. Associate Professor Chen Hongling of the Department of Music at National Chiayi University praised the integration of social emotional learning into art education, demonstrating the value of art in guiding life awareness. Among them, Professor Lin Xiaoyu, the co-host of the project and the Department of Music at Taipei City University, used the sentence "Use the heart to touch the heart, and use life to influence life" to encourage all teachers who are engaged in aesthetic education on the front line, and thanked all participating teachers for their dedication and persistence.

A special "Social Emotional Learning Workshop" was arranged in the afternoon, led by Lecturer Lin Meihong from the Central Curriculum and Teaching Guidance Group in the field of art of the Ministry of Education. The course first uses situation cards and emotion cards to guide teachers to perceive their inner feelings, and then express emotions through fabric creation. The activity also combines the OECD Learning Compass and MBTI personality exploration to design virtual characters, and practice Satir's response posture in three stages of "hateful, but, and yes" to help teachers develop multiple teaching strategies. The course integrates AI and performing arts to jointly stimulate the teaching concept of both aesthetics and social emotional learning (SEL). Finally, teachers shared the prototypes of multiple creative courses such as "Mood Postcards", "Catch Your Emotions", and "My Emotional Color Mask", showing the rich possibilities of cross-domain aesthetic education.

This sharing session showed that 18 schools have carried out diverse and rich aesthetic education based on local culture, social emotional learning and sustainable development, inspiring students to explore themselves and practice in society. As a partner school, the University of Tainan will continue to work with various schools to deepen aesthetic education and nourish students' creativity and aesthetic literacy through cross-domain learning.