Overview
- First edited volume that focuses on philosophical issues underlying both the teachings of art and the art of teaching
- Advocates that the politics of teaching and learning can only achieve democratic ideals through a renewed engagement with aesthetic concerns
- Tightens the relationship between aesthetics and education
- Offers diverse theoretical perspectives on the pedagogical possibilities offered by particular art forms
Part of the book series: Contemporary Philosophies and Theories in Education (COPT, volume 8)
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Table of contents(16 chapters)
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Art’s Teachings
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Teaching’s Arts
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About this book
This volume examines the interface between the teachings of art and the art of teaching, and asserts the centrality of aesthetics for rethinking education. Many of the essays in this collection claim a direct connection between critical thinking, democratic dissensus, and anti-racist pedagogy with aesthetic experiences. They argue that aesthetics should be reconceptualized less as mere art appreciation or the cultivation of aesthetic judgment of taste, and more with the affective disruptions, phenomenological experiences, and the democratic politics of learning, thinking, and teaching. The first set of essays in the volume examines the unique pedagogies of the various arts including literature, poetry, film, and music. The second set addresses questions concerning the art of pedagogy and the relationship between aesthetic experience and teaching and learning. Demonstrating the flexibility and diversity of aesthetic expressions and experiences in education, the book deals with issues such as the connections between racism and affect, curatorship and teaching, aesthetic experience and the common, and studying and poetics. The book explores these topics through a variety of theoretical and philosophical lenses including contemporary post-structuralism, psychoanalysis, phenomenology, critical theory, and pragmatism.
Editors and Affiliations
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Art Education, College of Visual Arts and Design, University of North Texas, Denton, USA
Tyson Lewis
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Educational Philosophy, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, USA
Megan Laverty
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Art's Teachings, Teaching's Art
Book Subtitle: Philosophical, Critical and Educational Musings
Editors: Tyson Lewis, Megan Laverty
Series Title: Contemporary Philosophies and Theories in Education
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-7191-7
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-017-7190-0Published: 07 September 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-024-0153-0Published: 23 October 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-94-017-7191-7Published: 28 August 2015
Series ISSN: 2214-9759
Series E-ISSN: 2214-9767
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 249
Topics: Educational Philosophy, Arts, Creativity and Arts Education, Teaching and Teacher Education