Aesthetic education is an educational pursuit with the core of cultivating students' perception ability, aesthetic understanding ability, aesthetic evaluation ability and aesthetic creativity. In the past few decades, aesthetic education in China has experienced various developments and reforms. However, there is still a big gap in the understanding of children's aesthetic education. Through the observation of aesthetic education teaching activities in a kindergarten in Fuzhou City, this study summarizes the teaching methods of infant aesthetic education and preliminarily evaluates the effectiveness of empirical teaching practice in Chinese students' aesthetic education. The research shows that the teaching activities of children's aesthetic education basically use empirical teaching, but the degree of application is different. Empirical teaching has been proved to be effective in promoting aesthetic education teaching activities. Aesthetic education teaching activities should adopt more flexible and interesting teaching design.

Ying Wu, Ma. Esperanza Malang (Adviser). Application of empirical teaching activities in children's aesthetic education: A case study of a kindergarten in Fuzhou City. Frontiers in Educational Research (2023) Vol. 6, Issue 29: 167-174. https://doi.org/10.25236/FER.2023.062928.

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