A New Pedagogy Employs an Old Friend: Beauty and the Quality of Ideas

Autor/in	Shoaf, Robb W.
Titel	A New Pedagogy Employs an Old Friend: Beauty and the Quality of Ideas
Quelle	In: Journal of Aesthetic Education, 46 (2012) 2, S.36-42 (7 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0021-8510
DOI	10.1353/jae.2012.0012
Schlagwörter	Aesthetics; Higher Education; Interdisciplinary Approach; Cooperation; Epistemology + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ästhetik; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Fächerübergreifender Unterricht; Fächerverbindender Unterricht; Interdisziplinarität; Co-operation; Kooperation; Erkenntnistheorie
Abstract	The thesis of the present paper is that collaboration is not only critical to the work of education at large but may function more effectively when it is conceived as an aesthetic enterprise. The counterintuitive claim of this paper is that an aesthetic perspective will both broaden one's perspective and sharpen one's focus in addressing both the acquisition and application of knowledge to real life situations and problems. This requires an aesthetic epistemology that seeks knowledge without automatically making a distinction between the value of objective and subjective perspectives. The reason is the need for commensurability among and between participants and disciplines. It is not a case of oversimplification but rather a recognition of the dynamic richness of complexity that lies in front as one attempts to gain and use knowledge. (Contains 20 notes.) (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10