Since 2014, the Ministry of Education has entrusted National Taiwan Normal University to implement the "Interdisciplinary Aesthetic Education Excellence Pilot Project", which integrates the teaching of other disciplines with artistic concepts, aesthetic elements and artistic resources as media and resources to activate and assist subject learning. and strategies to construct a cross-disciplinary aesthetic course with “art as the core”.
The cross-disciplinary aesthetic education curriculum of Pengnan Junior High School in Penghu County emphasizes local characteristics and connects art with daily life to further establish community identity and identification, and maintain the foundation of local culture. In past cross-disciplinary aesthetic courses, students have created small cultural and creative objects such as house signs, postcards, coasters, tiles, candles, and handmade soaps that incorporate community style. They even learned packaging design to create exclusive gift boxes. These small objects are also given more meaning due to students' artistic participation and social actions. By being familiar with the local environment and integrating into practical courses, students can better demonstrate their social participation and problem-solving abilities.
Pengnan Junior High School has recently used the special ecological and cultural environment of the island as a creative theme, combining Penghu's unique flora and fauna and landscapes: Tongliang ancient banyan tree, squid stone, Penghu County fish-tortoiseshell grouper, Penghu County bird-little skylark, Penghu County The county flower - Celestial Chrysanthemum; is matched with specific colors: brown, gray, purple coffee, brown, orange, and is designed and depicted using simple lines and patterns to emboss it into a fragrant handmade soap with Penghu County characteristics.
Such unique cultural and creative products can now be purchased at Penghu Duty Free Shop! The school and plans to license its intellectual property to local fragrance studios, giving visitors to Penghu the opportunity to take students’ creativity home. Also, because of the development of cross-field aesthetic courses, the younger generation will have more knowledge about the local area. awareness. These handmade soaps are not only cultural and creative products, but also carry everyone’s emotions for their hometown and their identification with Penghu’s local culture.
Students also use interdisciplinary knowledge and skills in the process of observation and creation. By combining the theories of different disciplines, they can construct the most suitable cultural and creative products. The special colors used are an important visual language, a pure form of communication, and a daily connection with residents' lives. They can further establish the identity of the community's environmental ecology, give the community its unique personality and identification, and then connect the residents' understanding of the community. memory.