艺术教育这一概念,包含着两种性质的艺术教育:一种是以培养专业艺术人才为主要目标的专业艺术教育;另一种则是专业艺术院校之外的各类艺术院校(专业)对学生进行素质教育的艺术教育,通常被称作普通学校的艺术教育。下面所谈的艺术教育正是指后一种。它的主要教学目标是对学生进行素质教育,其中又是以审美教育为核心,因此,有人往往将这种艺术教育与审美教育等同起来。我国翻译出版的美国学者拉尔夫·史密斯的《艺术感觉与美育》一书的“导言”中就明确指出,在这本书中“艺术教育”和“审美教育”这两个术语是可以互换的。但是,必须明确指出,尽管美育与艺术教育有着非常密切的关系,有时可互用,但它们毕竟是两个不同的概念,不应当加以 The concept of art education embraces two types of art education: one is professional art education with the main objective of cultivating professional art talents; the other is art schools other than professional art schools Art education for students’ quality education is often referred to as art education in ordinary schools. The following is an art education that refers to the latter. Its main teaching goal is to carry out quality education for students, of which aesthetic education is the core. Therefore, some people often equate this kind of art education with aesthetic education. The translation and publication of the American scholar Ralph Smith’s “Art Feeling and Aesthetic Education,” a book, “Introduction” made it clear that in this book, “art education” and “aesthetic education” are two terms that can be mutual Change. However, it must be clearly pointed out that although aesthetic education has a very close relationship with art education and can sometimes be used interchangeably, they are, after all, two different concepts and should not be used