Defending Aesthetic Education
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8408202 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Laura D’Olimpio (0000-0003-0797-6623, University of Birmingham, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 70 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 263-279 |
| Publication date | 2022-05-04 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | British Journal of Educational Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-1005 • E-ISSN: 1467-8527 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00071005.2021.1960267 |
| OpenAlex | W3194231964 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 13 |
In this paper, I offer a defence of aesthetic education in terms of aesthetic experience, claiming that aesthetic experience and art appreciation is a vital component of a flourishing life. Given schools have an important role to play in helping prepare young people for their adult lives, it is crucial they should consider how best to equip students with the means to achieve a flourishing life. It is on these grounds I defend arts education as compulsory across the curriculum. In order to adopt this position, I firstly critically engage with two competing defences of including the arts on the curriculum on the basis of firstly, the role art has to play in supporting self-expression, and secondly, a defence of the arts in relation to their role in supporting moral improvement. After explaining why these arguments fail to do the work required to defend aesthetic education as thoroughly as is needed, I turn to the defence based on aesthetic experience because it allows for a defence of the arts to be made on the basis of art’s distinctive value
Aesthetics · Art · Curriculum · Flourishing · Order (exchange) · Pedagogy · Political science · Relation (database) · Sociology · The arts · Value (mathematics) · Visual arts education · Ethics, Aesthetics, and Art · Hannah Arendt's Political Philosophy · Law · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism · Psychology · Social Psychology
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A reappraisal of aesthetic education in outdoor education
Development and validation of an instrument for assessing aesthetic education
Primary school teacher candidates’ perceptions of “aesthetics”
Reflections on How Young Children Develop a Sense of Beauty and Should Be Guided in Doing So
| Citations per year | 1.67 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2023 - 2026 (4) |
| Highly cited | No |