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Guilin Normal University adheres to the school-running concept of "rejuvenating learning through art", with the goal of cultivating high-quality artistic talents in the new era who are both moral and artistic and rooted in the grassroots, and innovatively builds a multi-dimensional integrated education path of "ideological and political soul casting, cultural infiltration, competition empowerment, and practice refining", and strives to realize the connection between the supply side of art education and the demand side of local aesthetic education.

Thought leadership: build a solid foundation of faith and cultivate the feelings of family and country

The college adheres to the educational concept of "bacon casts the soul, enlightens the mind and nourishes the heart", deeply integrates the core values of socialism and the spirit of Chinese aesthetic education into the whole chain of art education, and is committed to cultivating compound artistic talents in the new era with both exquisite skills and responsibility for the family and country. First of all, it strengthens the foundation of students' ideals and beliefs, and guides students to strengthen their artistic ideals and adhere to the correct belief in artistic creation through a series of special lectures, themed party days, theme group day activities, and theme class meetings. Secondly, efforts should be made to cultivate students' patriotism, deeply practice the ideological and political education model of the "art + ideological and political" course, integrate patriotic elements into the professional curriculum of art education, and let patriotism take root in the hearts of students through classroom teaching, visiting red culture education bases, and creating patriotic theme works, and finally transform it into the mission of "serving the country with art". In recent years, the college has achieved a series of landmark achievements in art education. For example, the 4-level art and design professional league branch and the 0-level primary school art education professional league branch were respectively awarded the "dynamic league branch" and the national "dynamic league branch" of the Communist Youth League of Guangxi universities, and the music department and the art department were awarded the "three comprehensive education" comprehensive reform demonstration departments of Guangxi colleges and universities and the cultivation and creation unit of the benchmark colleges and departments of party building work in Guangxi universities. The "Art of Recitation" course was awarded the Ministry of Education's Curriculum Ideological and Political Demonstration Project, and 0 courses, including "Chinese Culture", "Piano", "Preschool Children's Piano Performance" and "Vocal Music Foundation", were awarded the Guangxi Higher Vocational School Curriculum Ideological and Political Demonstration Course, and the "Piano Teaching Team" was awarded the Guangxi Curriculum Ideological and Political Grassroots Teaching Organization.

Culture nourishes the heart: inherits the essence of the nation and glows with the vitality of aesthetic education

The college strives to promote the inheritance and innovation of national culture through multiple measures such as improving the construction of the system, deeply cultivating the main position of classroom teaching, and absorbing artistic inspiration. The School has established the Aesthetic Education Immersion Action Innovation Practice and Research Center and the National Music Inheritance and Innovation Teaching Research Center, which provide a solid guarantee for promoting the connotative development of art education. At the same time, the college attaches great importance to the integration of national culture into teaching, and builds a solid foundation for students' cultural self-confidence and cultural inheritance awareness through the main position of classroom teaching. For example, in the piano classroom teaching, the teacher selects classic works full of the essence of national music, such as "Liu Sanjie's Theme Fantasia" and "Embroidered Gold Plaque", and guides students to understand the aesthetics of national music and cultivate cultural identity by analyzing the unique artistic characteristics of national music works, such as style, key and melody. In addition, the school organized a team of teachers and students majoring in art education to go deep into the ethnic minority areas such as Longsheng, Resources, and Sanjiang, and drew inspiration from them through artistic research, and created a series of excellent works such as "Miao Family Oil Tea Song - Ni Nani" and "Yao Nu Youyou", realizing the deep integration of national art inheritance and aesthetic education innovation. In recent years, the teacher has also worked with a number of primary schools to develop 12 school-based textbooks of ethnic skills, such as "Percussion of Ethnic Minorities" and "Folk Painting of Zhuangxiang". "Homesickness, Aesthetic Education: Innovative Practice of Aesthetic Education in Primary and Secondary Schools in Ethnic Areas Based on Traditional Music Culture" and "Inheritance, Integration and Innovation: Practical Research on the Penetration of Ethnic Minority Patterns in Primary School Art Education in Guangxi" won the second prize of Guangxi Basic Education Autonomous Region Teaching Achievement Award.

Competition-driven: Empower strong skills with competition, and create a new chapter of competition and education

The college takes skill competition as the starting point for educating people, builds a benign ecology of "promoting teaching and learning through competition", transforms the arena into an education field, and deepens the creation platform into a talent platform, and creates a three-level advanced competition system of "building the foundation of the school competition, tempering the provincial competition, and breaking through the national competition", so as to comprehensively improve the artistic quality and innovation ability of teachers and students. In recent years, teachers and students have achieved remarkable results in various art competitions. He has won 18 third prizes in the National Vocational College Skills Competition, 0 second prizes and 0 third prizes in the National College Students' Art Exhibition, and more than 0 awards in autonomous region-level competitions such as the Guangxi College Students' Art Exhibition and the "Red Bronze Drum" China-ASEAN Art Education Achievement Exhibition. Among them, in the 0th "Red Copper Drum" China-ASEAN Art Education Achievement Exhibition, 0 works were selected, and the vocal work "Rice and Fish" and the recitation work "Zhuangxiang Splendor" were performed on-site for the whole country. In the process of participating in the competition, the students' understanding and expression of beauty were continuously deepened, and they also exercised their teamwork spirit and problem-solving and ability to resist pressure and adaptability in the fierce competition.

Practice tempering: cultivating the fertile soil at the grassroots level and empowering the revitalization of rural culture

The college relies on characteristic projects such as the "Ten Hundred Thousand Project" (counterpart assistance to 30 rural primary schools, 0 teachers are selected to serve rural basic education, and 0 students are arranged to go to the front line of rural areas), "Sending Art to the Countryside" and "Music for You Aesthetic Education Action" to create a rural revitalization matrix of education services. The college provides precise assistance for art education to Lingui Town Central Primary School in Lingui District, Guilin City and Baoning Central Primary School in Wutong Town. Teachers and students majoring in art education help the school to promote classroom teaching reform, improve teaching quality, and simultaneously cultivate students' sense of practical teaching and social responsibility by participating in classroom teaching, topic discussions, and large-scale activity guidance. The college takes "sending art to the countryside" as a link to build a bridge for the dissemination of urban and rural culture. Through a series of activities such as "Love Painting Dreams" and "Rural Wall Painting", we will create high-quality cultural sharing spaces for rural communities, activate the endogenous power of local culture, and also enable art students to transform their professional skills into the ability to help rural revitalization in field practice. Media at all levels have repeatedly reported on the activities of sending teachers and students to the countryside for the school. The school has carefully planned and implemented a series of volunteer service projects of "Music for You, Aesthetic Education Action", in which teachers and students have shown the charm of the countryside by carrying out art performances in rural communities, and carried out aesthetic education training with professional advantages, serving more than 0 rural kindergartens, primary schools and communities. These series of activities provide students with a broad stage for practice, so that they can improve their professional quality and ideological awareness in practice, and also inject artistic vitality into rural revitalization, so as to achieve a win-win situation of talent training and social services. (Qin Linyan, Yang Hongxiu)