The world s most renowned critical theorist who defined the field of postcolonial studies has radically reoriented her thinking. Finding the neat polarities of tradition and modernity colonial and postcolonial no longer sufficient she argues that aesthetic education... Lees meer.

The history of education can easily be described as theme and variation on one motif. reform. From Plato s critique of the Sophists in Protagoras to John Henry Newman s considerations of education in The Idea of a University in 1854 from the educational projects of Ma... Lees meer.

Man defines himself by his deeds - and what kind of image of man do we see in the mirror of our present times. The poet and dramatist Friedrich Schiller was also a profound philosopher who described his work On the Aesthetic Education of Man as the best thing that... Lees meer.

This book brings together Steiner s philosophical biodynamic and cultural contributions to education where spirit and soul are the creative elements in human evolution. His thought is applied to selected examples of innovative artistic practice and pedagogy of the... Lees meer.

How are educational encounters understood experienced and lived. How are they conceptualized. How do they shape our being in and of the world. In this time of apparent distance and disconnect this volume emphasizes the role of contact and connectedness in educatio... Lees meer.

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This book is an exploration of an aesthetic rationality. It finds common threads pointing to the major characteristics of this rationality in an historical sequence beginning with Dante and ending with phenomenology and concludes with recommendations for the founding o... Lees meer.

When the mechanical artist places his hand on the formless block to give it a form according to his intention he has not any scruples in doing violence to it. For the nature on which he works does not deserve any respect in itself and he does not value the whole for... Lees meer.

Drawing on Whitman and Adorno Morton Schoolman proposes aesthetic education through film as a way to redress the political violence inflicted on difference society constructs as its racialized gendered Semitic and sexualized other. In A Democratic Enlightenment M... Lees meer.

This volumeis the first book to map a broad range of practices and critically examine the impact of education and outreach programmes in theatres and theatre companies around the globe. This innovative volume looks specifically at the manner in which theatres and theatr... Lees meer.

The contributors explore from various angles the relationship between the pressure on music education and the foundations of our technical and rationalized modern society and lead the way on the indispensable first steps towards reconnecting the cultural practices of ed... Lees meer.

This book is based on the topics questions and results of the international conference Aesthetics of Transformation - Arts Education Research and the Challenge of Cultural Sustainability . It aims to foster and sharpen the understanding of the potential role of arts e... Lees meer.

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This book advocates for a radical change in music teaching and learning methods allowing for a break from the traditional conservatory model still in use in many classrooms. The product of twenty years of interdisciplinary work by musicians music teachers and psychol... Lees meer.

The typical treatment of scribbling in the literature of artistic development has cast the practice as a prelude to representation in drawing and writing with only occasional acknowledgment of the continuing joy and experiment of making marks across many arts practices... Lees meer.