
A Word from the Head Gardener - Teaching Beauty in Life
Last Saturday, I participated in the workshop "Roots of Aesthetics and Arts Education in Kindergartens" hosted by the Department of Teacher Education and Arts Education of the Ministry of Education and organized by Tainan University, and was personally lectured by the facilitator of the program, Dean Lin Mei-jun of the College of Fine Arts. Prof. Lin shared that the three major competencies of aesthetic education in kindergartens include "exploration and awareness," "expression and creation," and "response and appreciation," and that people usually focus more on expression and creation and neglect "exploration and awareness" and "response".