The Necessity of Aesthetic Education

The Place of the Arts on the Curriculum

Laura D’Olimpio (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

184 Seiten

2024
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-12090-7 (ISBN)

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The Necessity of Aesthetic Education is a manifesto. That which is experienced through engagement with art, through the many various and diverse art forms and media, is uniquely and essentially valuable to the lives of human beings. In order to fully appreciate and gain the most out of the arts, which offer a variety of aesthetic experience, there are concepts, skills and techniques integral to such understanding. In this book, Laura D’Olimpio argues that aesthetic education ought to be a compulsory part of education for all school-aged students, from pre-primary to high school, on the basis of its distinctive value. Such an argument is timely, given the so-called crisis in the arts and humanities, with declining student numbers in subjects that do not have a direct vocational correlative, and increased focus on science, engineering, technology and mathematics (STEM) subjects. As funding cuts increasingly slash the support for the arts, there is a need to argue for why the arts and arts education is valuable, for their own sake, as well as for the positive contributions they can and do make to society. Through critical engagement with a range of thinkers including Maxine Greene, John Dewey and Elliot Eisner, D’Olimpio offers a unique and important contribution to aesthetic education, and to research within philosophy of education.

Laura D’Olimpio is Associate Professor of Philosophy of Education at the University of Birmingham, UK, and author of Media and Moral Education: a philosophy of critical engagement (2018). She is co-editor of Educating Character Through the Arts (2023) and co-editor of the Journal of Philosophy in Schools.

Series Editor's Foreword
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Arts Education in Policy and Practice
2. Why Value The Arts and Arts Education?
3. Defending Arts Education
4. On the Centrality of Aesthetic Experience
5. Objections and Replies
6. Instrumental Defences of Arts Education
7. Aesthetics and Ethics
Conclusion: The Necessity of Arts Education
References
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	16.04.2024
Reihe/Serie	Bloomsbury Philosophy of Education
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Bildungstheorie
ISBN-10	1-350-12090-1 / 1350120901
ISBN-13	978-1-350-12090-7 / 9781350120907
Zustand	Neuware