1st Edition

Activating Aesthetics

Edited By Elizabeth M. Grierson Copyright 2018
132 Pages
by Routledge

132 Pages
by Routledge

132 Pages
by Routledge

Activating Aesthetics addresses questions of aesthetics in various fields of education, with the aim of investigating a way of revealing how aesthetics may activate an engaged, responsive and poetic pedagogy. The writers in this collection enliven different ways of thinking about aesthetics, educating through aesthetics and questioning aesthetics. They approach aesthetics through the lenses of... Read more

Introduction Elizabeth M Grierson

1. Activating Aesthetics: Working with Heidegger and Bourdieu for engaged pedagogy Elizabeth M Grierson

2. Rendering Visible: Painting sexuate ontologies Linda Daley

3. All Things Out of Rule Nuala Gregory

4. Activating Built Pedagogy: A genealogical exploration of educational space at the University of Auckland Epsom Campus and Business School Kirsten Locke

5. Artwork as Technics Mark Jackson

6. Katsushika Hokusai and a Poetics of Nostalgia David Bell

7. Thoughts on Film: Critically engaging with both Adorno and Benjamin Laura D’Olimpio

8. Reconsidering Music’s Relational Dimension: Heidegger and the work of music in education David Lines

Biography

Elizabeth M. Grierson is Professor at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia. An Australian lawyer, and a barrister in New Zealand (as Gresson), with a Ph.D. in Education and a Juris Doctor Distinction, she publishes in philosophy of education, aesthetics, law and justice.