玛克辛·格林美育思想下的初中英语教学实践探索

Exploration of Junior High School English Teaching Practice from the Perspective of Maxine Greene’s Aesthetic Education Thought

摘要: 当下初中英语教学普遍存在应试导向、重语言技能训练轻美育熏陶、学生想象力匮乏、跨文化共情不足等现实困境。美国教育哲学家玛克辛·格林以存在主义、现象学为根基，提出以追寻意义为核心育人指向、社会想象的美育路径、作为陌生人的教师三大美育核心思想，强调审美体验、社会共情与批判性思维培育，与义务教育英语课程标准文化意识、思维品质育人要求高度契合。本文以格林美育理论为分析框架，梳理适配初中英语教学的落地组织条件，最终提出美育导向初中英语课堂实施策略，为弱化英语应试化、落实学科美育、培育学生跨文化共情思维提供实践参考。

Abstract: At present, junior high school English teaching is generally confronted with practical dilemmas: it is largely exam-oriented, attaches more importance to language skill training than aesthetic education edification, and faces problems such as students’ insufficient imagination and weak cross-cultural empathy. Rooted in existentialism and phenomenology, American educational philosopher Maxine Greene put forward three core propositions of aesthetic education: taking meaning pursuit as the educational orientation, social imagination as the approach to aesthetic education, and teacher as stranger as the role orientation. She emphasizes the cultivation of aesthetic experience, social empathy and critical thinking, which highly aligns with the requirements of fostering cultural awareness and thinking quality specified in the Compulsory Education English Curriculum Standard. Taking Greene’s aesthetic education theory as the analytical framework, this paper sorts out the applicable organizational conditions for its implementation in junior high school English teaching, and puts forward practical strategies for aesthetic education-oriented English classrooms. It is expected to provide practical references for reducing the exam-oriented tendency of English teaching, implementing subject-based aesthetic education, and cultivating students’ cross-cultural empathy thinking.