The Integration of Intangible Cultural Heritage into College Students’ Aesthetic Education: Values, Mechanisms, and Approaches
As a living gene of China’s excellent traditional culture, intangible cultural heritage embodies rich aesthetic resources and educational value. Against the backdrop of contemporary college students’ aesthetic education facing challenges such as limited experiential awareness and disconnection between aesthetic activities and real-life contexts, intangible cultural heritage—characterized by its embodied, relational, and everyday nature—provides a vital resource for reforming university aesthetic education. This study employs literature review and logical analysis to systematically elucidate the value of integrating intangible cultural heritage into college students ‘aesthetic education, revealing its underlying mechanisms across four dimensions: cultural cognition, emotional identification, value guidance, and embodied practice. It proposes an integrated implementation framework comprising curriculum system restructuring, establishment of social collaboration platforms, digital technology empowerment, and stimulation of individual agency. The research demonstrates that incorporating intangible cultural heritage into aesthetic education not only enhances students’ aesthetic literacy and cultural identity but also nurtures their subjectivity through a “protective process,” facilitating a profound transformation from skill transmission to holistic personality development.
Keywords: Intangible cultural heritage; Aesthetic education for college students; Value positioning; Internal mechanisms; Implementation pathways
