怀特海的教育美学思想导源于以审美经验为基础的过程哲学理论,这一理论主张将审美经验和美学原则渗透于教育过程.怀特海的教育美学思想的内核,包含过程论和活动论的统一、知识与智慧的统一,提倡以受教育者的感性生活为轴心,拓展审美直觉的功能和追求自由和谐的境界,让受教育者在生命的活动过程中体悟和认知美的意义,从而获得知识与智慧,在精神自由中获得创造力和分享美.
Whitehead' s educational aesthetic originated from the process philosophy on the basis of aesthetic experience, this theory holds that aesthetic experience and aesthetic principles permeate the education process. The core of Whitehead' s educational aesthetic, including the unified process theory and activity theory, the unification of knowledge and wisdom, advocating the educated perceptual life as the axis, expanding the aesthetic function of intuition and the pursuit of freedom and harmonious, to make the educated men ex- perience and cognize meaning of beauty in the life activities, thus to obtain the knowledge and the wisdom, get creativity and share the beauty in the freedom of the spirit.