ArticleOpen Access http://dx.doi.org/10.26855/jla.2026.12.005
Field, Cultural Lineage, Creation: Construction and Practice of an Embodied Aesthetic Education Model in Higher Education—A Case Study of the General Education Course Lingnan Dance: Appreciation and Practice
Yichi Zhang
School of Music, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510631, Guangdong, China.
*Corresponding author: Yichi Zhang
Published: August 21, 2026
Abstract
Aesthetic education in higher education in the new era undertakes the dual mission of cultural inheritance and value shaping, but the integration of excellent local traditional culture into general education courses faces dilemmas such as disconnect between theoretical knowledge and embodied practice, limited learning fields and gaps between specialized dance training and general aesthetic education. Based on the theory of embodied cognition, this article takes the general education course Lingnan Dance: Appreciation and Practice of South China Normal University as a study sample to build a “field-cultural lineage-creation” embodied aesthetic education model: the field integrates multiple spaces to reconstruct real cultural experience; the cultural lineage embeds dance within a living tradition, merging cognition, experience and identity; the creation promotes students to shift from learners to creators and realizes traditional innovative expression. In order to guarantee the effective implementation of this model, a four-stage teaching mechanism, T-P-R-C (Theory, Practice, Reflection, and Crea-tion) is adopted. This study shows that this model has effectively improved students’ aesthetic experience, cultural identity and innovation ability, and provided a practical paradigm that can be promoted for integrating excellent local traditional culture into aesthetic education in higher education.
Keyword
Embodied aesthetic education; Lingnan dance; intangible cultural heritage; field-cultural lineage-creation model; T-P-R-C mechanism
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Field, Cultural Lineage, Creation: Construction and Practice of an Embodied Aesthetic Education Model in Higher Education—A Case Study of the General Education Course Lingnan Dance: Appreciation and Practice
How to cite this paper: Yichi Zhang. (2026). Field, Cultural Lineage, Creation: Construction and Practice of an Embodied Aesthetic Education Model in Higher Education—A Case Study of the General Education Course Lingnan Dance: Appreciation and Practice. Journal of Literature Advances, 3(2), 133-138.
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.26855/jla.2026.12.005