Art's Teachings, Teaching's Art: Philosophical, Critical and Educational Musings (Contemporary Philosophies and Theories in Education Book 8)

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. ℗lDemonstrating 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.℗l The book explores these topics through a variety of theoretical and philosophical lenses including contemporary post-structuralism, psychoanalysis, phenomenology, critical theory, and pragmatism.℗l℗l℗l ℗l. Read more... Abstract: 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. ℗lDemonstrating 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.℗l The book explores these topics through a variety of theoretical and philosophical lenses including contemporary post-structuralism, psychoanalysis, phenomenology, critical theory, and pragmatism.℗l℗l℗l ℗l Front Matter....Pages i-xi Introduction: Redistributing the Artistic and Pedagogical Sensible....Pages 1-16 Front Matter....Pages 17-17 Art’s Foreignness as an “Exit Pedagogy”....Pages 19-31 A Poietic Force That Belongs to No One: Reflections on Art and Education from an Agambenian Perspective....Pages 33-48 Opening Minds Through Narratives....Pages 49-61 An Organism of Words: Ekphrastic Poetry and the Pedagogy of Perception....Pages 63-78 Rosetta’s Moral Body: Modernist Lessons from the Dardennes....Pages 79-87 A Note on the Scandals: The Role of Filmic Fantasy in Reproducing Teaching and its Transgressions....Pages 89-103 Cinematic Screen Pedagogy in a Time of Modulated Control: To Think the Outside....Pages 105-121 Music as an Apprenticeship for Life: John Dewey on the Art of Living....Pages 123-135 Aesthetics and Educational Value Struggles....Pages 137-150 The Primacy of Movement in Research-Creation: New Materialist Approaches to Art Research and Pedagogy....Pages 151-162 Front Matter....Pages 163-163 Suspending the Ontology of Effectiveness in Education: Reclaiming the Theatrical Gestures of the Ineffective Teacher....Pages 165-178 Learning by Jamming ....Pages 179-193 The Blue Soul of Jazz: Lessons on Waves of Anguish....Pages 195-209 Funny Vibe: Towards a Somaesthetic Approach to Anti-racist Education....Pages 211-228 Toward a Curatorial Turn in Education....Pages 229-242 Back Matter....Pages 243-249