From 1990 till now on, alternative schools have been developed and drawn many related issues and concerns. Different from the main stream or institutional schooling, the curriculum implementation of alternative school, which lays on the specific education philosophy or ideals, particularly emphasizes the subjectivity of learners, the exploration of life being, the aesthetic experience and artistry of teaching. All the independent and innovative natures of curriculum have aesthetic concerns. However, the theories and praxis of alternative education and curriculum aesthetics mostly originate from the western theories. The study based on traditional Chinese culture of Taoism, Zen and Confucianism, explores the theory and praxis of curriculum aesthetics from the self subject being, consciousness awareness, the relation of teaching and art, and educational connoisseurship. The study aims to construct and praxis of curriculum aesthetics in Taiwan the Natural Way Children’s School. The research methods include literature review and document analysis in the major way and interview and observation. The results are to analyze the framework and practice of curriculum in the Natural Way Children’s School. Besides, the research also constructs the implications of aesthetics of curriculum from cultural time schedule, aesthetics of environment, and oriental somaesthetics. The contributions of this study includes: (1) to reflect the alternative possibility for school education from curriculum aesthetic, (2) to construct aesthetic discourse depending indigent experience, and (3) to develop curriculum aesthetic praxis in the field. These contributions will provide alternative approach to think schooling under the ideology of instrumental rationality.
