Teaching for the Aesthetic Experience
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Overview
Each author engages in aesthetic experience from an individual perspective - as poet, dancer, visual artist, or musician - and each of them engages as an educator who brings art into his or her classroom, no matter what the subject. Inspired by the words of philosopher Maxine Greene, the contributors transform the theoretical into the practical, urging students to look to the arts and nature for simple beauty, and awaken their minds to new possibilities of creative learning.Synopsis
Teacher salaries being what they are, many teachers are indeed being asked to work for the aesthetic experience alone. The issues addressed here, however relate to teaching students aesthetic experience in classes on the various performance, plastic, and literary arts. Artists and teachers examine such topics as the arts and school restructuring, experiencing the moment, an aesthetic of everyday life, and the woman artist/educator in the ivory tower. There is no index. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR