The Aesthetics of Education: Theatre, Curiosity, and Politics in the Work of Jacques Ranciere and Paulo Freire

by Tyson Lewis

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This innovative book examines the aesthetic event of education. Extending beyond the pedagogy of art or art appreciation, Tyson E. Lewis takes a much broader view of aesthetics and argues that teaching and learning are themselves aesthetic performances. As Jacques Ranciere has recently argued, there is an inherent connection between aesthetics and politics, both of which disrupt conventional distributions of who can speak and think. Here, Lewis extends Ranciere's general thesis to examine how there is not only an aesthetics of politics but also an aesthetics of education. In particular, Lewis' analysis focuses on several questions: What are the...Read more
  • ISBN10 1441157719
  • ISBN13 9781441157713
  • Publish Date 1 June 2012
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Continuum Publishing Corporation
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 192
  • Language English