From Image Symbol to Aesthetic Experience: A Study on the Aesthetic Transformation Mechanism and Educational Realization Path of Language Textbook Illustrations

Abstract

As a key carrier for the implementation of the core quality of "aesthetic creativity", the effective realization of the aesthetic value of language textbook illustrations is facing the real problems of practical disconnection and theoretical gap. Based on the theories of semiotics, embodied cognition and cultural reproduction, this paper innovatively puts forward the concept of "transformation mechanism of aesthetic education", constructs a three-phase The study analyzes the dynamic transformation process of illustrations from image symbols to students' aesthetic experience. The study explains the essential characteristics of illustration as a dual symbolic system of "likeness-regulation", reveals the cognitive ladder of "perception-cognition-creation" and the path of realization of embodied cognition, and points out that the current aesthetic education of illustration has the problem of instrumentalization, and that the current aesthetic education of illustration has the problem of instrumentalization. The study points out that the current aesthetic education of illustrations is plagued by instrumental alienation, cultural hegemony and aesthetic flattening, and proposes a "three-in-one" education path from the dimensions of teachers, teaching materials and culture, including improving teachers' aesthetic education, reconstructing the principles of teaching materials and dynamic revision mechanism, and constructing classroom aesthetic education communities. The study provides new perspectives and practical guidance for exploring the aesthetic value of language textbook illustrations and bridging the gap between the theories of aesthetics and pedagogy, aiming to promote the return of aesthetic education to the nature of "reconstruction of experience", and to cultivate students' aesthetic literacy and sound personality.

Keywords

• language textbook illustrations
• aesthetic education transformation mechanism
• symbolic representation
• embodied cognition
• aesthetic experience
• educational realization paths

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