The Necessity of Aesthetic Education
The Place of the Arts on the Curriculum
Series: Bloomsbury Philosophy of Education;
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Product details:
- Publisher Bloomsbury Academic
- Date of Publication 27 November 2025
- Number of Volumes Paperback
- ISBN 9781350224971
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Language English 700
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Long description:
The Necessity of Aesthetic Education is a manifesto. That which is experienced through engagement with art, through the many various and diverse art forms and media, is uniquely and essentially valuable to the lives of human beings. In order to fully appreciate and gain the most out of the arts, which offer a variety of aesthetic experience, there are concepts, skills and techniques integral to such understanding. In this book, Laura D'Olimpio argues that aesthetic education ought to be a compulsory part of education for all school-aged students, from pre-primary to high school, on the basis of its distinctive value. Such an argument is timely, given the so-called crisis in the arts and humanities, with declining student numbers in subjects that do not have a direct vocational correlative, and increased focus on science, engineering, technology and mathematics (STEM) subjects. As funding cuts increasingly slash the support for the arts, there is a need to argue for why the arts and arts education is valuable, for their own sake, as well as for the positive contributions they can and do make to society. Through critical engagement with a range of thinkers including Maxine Greene, John Dewey and Elliot Eisner, D'Olimpio offers a unique and important contribution to aesthetic education, and to research within philosophy of education.
MoreTable of Contents:
Series Editor's Foreword
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Arts Education in Policy and Practice
2. Why Value The Arts and Arts Education?
3. Defending Arts Education
4. On the Centrality of Aesthetic Experience
5. Objections and Replies
6. Instrumental Defences of Arts Education
7. Aesthetics and Ethics
Conclusion: The Necessity of Arts Education
References
Index
