Beauty in the Darkness: Aesthetic Education in the Ecological Crisis

Autor/in	Affifi, Ramsey
Titel	Beauty in the Darkness: Aesthetic Education in the Ecological Crisis
Quelle	In: Journal of Philosophy of Education, 54 (2020) 4, S.1126-1138 (13 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Affifi, Ramsey)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0309-8249
DOI	10.1111/1467-9752.12475
Schlagwörter	Aesthetic Education; Climate; Ecology; Reflection; Transformative Learning; Interdisciplinary Approach; Sustainability + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ästhetische Bildung; Klima; Ökologie; Pädagogische Transformation; Fächerübergreifender Unterricht; Fächerverbindender Unterricht; Interdisziplinarität; Nachhaltigkeit
Abstract	Engaging with beauty can orient mind, heart and action in this era of ecological destruction. First, I present a vision of beauty that acknowledges some of its common critiques while salvaging it from claims that it is merely subjective, or worse, destructive. I then focus on how the ecological crisis elicits and invites participation in actions towards vulnerable things and the beauty they invoke. I reflect on my life experiences and engagements with art to help understand the possibilities and power in the beauty of vulnerable things and of actions towards them. While I acknowledge and address some difficulties with beauty as the basis for action, I suggest it is better suited to engage the ecological crisis than appealing to emotions such as hope or relying on prevalent ethical approaches. I end the paper by considering the transformative role aesthetics should play in reimagining subject focus, interdisciplinarity and character development in school curricula and pedagogy aimed at sustainability. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01