- Research Article
- 10.63313/eh.9041
Exploration on the Path of Aesthetic Education Reform and Practice in Colleges and Universities in the New Era -- From the Dual Perspectives of Demand Survey and Intangible Cultural Heritage Integration
- Feb 20, 2026
- Educational and Humanities
- Shiyu Huang + 1 more +1
As the core carrier of aesthetic education, sentiment education and spiritual education, aesthetic education is an important way for colleges and universities to implement the fundamental task of fostering virtue through education and cultivate students’ innovative awareness and comprehensive literacy. Against the background of the New Era, the reform of aesthetic education in colleges and universities is confronted with practical problems such as imperfect curriculum system, single practical form and insufficient resource integration. Local undergraduate universities need to optimize the supply of aesthetic education based on students’ actual needs. As an autonomous region with ethnic minorities, Guangxi can innovate the content and form of aesthetic education by relying on the cultural resources of intangible cultural heritage (ICH). Taking Guilin University of Technology as a research sample, this paper conducts a questionnaire survey on aesthetic education needs among 528 undergraduates of different grades, majors and genders (with an effective recovery rate of 96.8%). Combined with the practical exploration of integrating ICH into aesthetic education in local undergraduate universities, this paper discusses the practical path of aesthetic education reform in colleges and universities in the New Era from the dual dimensions of demand orientation and cultural empowerment, so as to provide a reference for colleges and universities to construct a diversified and systematic aesthetic education system.
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