Arts Studies and Criticism

In the context of the new era of rapid development of information technology, aesthetic education has ushered in new development opportunities and emerged in new and diverse forms, while also facing new challenges. Aesthetic educa-tion, as an important part of education, plays an important role in the secondary school education system, but in the process of teaching and implementation, secondary school aesthetic education also reveals many problems. Secondary school education does not pay enough attention to the degree of aesthetic education or even the lack of aesthetic education, resulting in the cognitive differentiation and fault in the growth of students, which not only affects the balanced development of education but also to a certain extent leads to a certain degree of "education gap" and "development barrier". The problem of aesthetic education has been put on the agenda and should be solved without delay. Relevant departments and schools should raise the importance of aesthetic education, actively carry out aesthetic education activities, promote the overall development of students' moral, intellectual, physical, social, and aesthetic development as the goal of development, and strictly implement the national education policy to build a better future for children. This paper will discuss the problems of aesthetic education in the implementation process of secondary education from the relationship between aesthetic education and secondary school music curriculum, and explore its implementation path and solutions, taking a secondary school as a typical case for analysis, targeting the selection of aesthetic education materials, the implementation of aesthetic education curriculum, and conducting interviews and interviews with front-line teachers and students at school, exploring appropriate in the analysis of students' classroom performance and teaching results data. We also discuss the appropriate solutions in the analysis of students' classroom performance and teaching outcome data and further explore the implementation path of aesthetic education in China to realize the new development of secondary school aesthetic education.