Integration and Challenges of Anhui Folk Fine Arts into University Art Education: Basis for an Enhanced Implementation Program

Abstract

The rise of multiculturalism in the United States in the 1980s created a wave in the world of education. Multicultural education requires the promotion of multiculturalism, educational equality, and social harmony in schools. In today’s era of multicultural development in the world, the protection and inheritance of folk art and cultural heritage and the consolidation of the national spirit is an important way to enhance cultural self-confi dence and build a strong cultural country, in which art education in colleges and universities is unshirkable. Anhui is located in the Yangtze and Huaihe River Basin. It has created a splendid culture and is a large province of intangible cultural heritage resources. However, China is currently undergoing an unprecedented civilization transformation, modernization, urbanization, and globalization brought by the Internet, which makes Anhui folk art disappear much faster than its preservation and faces serious challenges. This study hopes to focus on the application effect of integrating Anhui folk art into art education in colleges and universities, evaluate it, and on this basis, propose an improved implementation plan in order to improve the level of practical teaching, promote the development of teachers and students, and realize the win-win situation between education and regional cultural inheritance.