1st Edition

Enriching Arts Education through Aesthetics Experiential Arts Integration Activities for Pre-School and Early Primary Education

112 Pages
by Routledge

112 Pages
by Routledge

112 Pages
by Routledge

Enriching Arts Education through Aesthetics examines the use of aesthetic theory as the foundation to design and implement arts activities suitable for integration in school curricula in pre-school and primary school education. This book suggests teaching practices based on the connection between aesthetics and arts education and shows that this kind of integration promotes enriched learning... Read more
  1. INTRODUCTION
  2. THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK
  3. 2.1.Representationalism

    2.2.Expressionism/Cognitivism

    2.3.Formalism

    2.4.Postmodernism/Contextualism

  4. DESIGNING EXPERIENTIAL AESTHETICS-BASED ARTS INTEGRATION PRACTICES
  5. 3.1.General characteristics

    3.2.Aesthetics-based characteristics

  6. IMPLEMENTATIONS
  7. 4.1. Why conduct these implementations?

    4.2. Who participated?

    4.3. How were the data collected?

    4.4. How were the data analyzed?

    4.5. What was implemented? What were the findings?

    4.6.Other results

  8. DISCUSSION
  9. 5.1.Discussion on the findings of the representationalism-based activities

    5.2.Discussion on the findings of the expressionism/cognitivism-based activities

    5.3.Discussion on the findings of the formalism-based activities

    5.4.Discussion on the findings of the postmodernism/contextualism-based activities

    5.5.Discussion on the combinations of the activities

  10. CONCLUSIONS AND PROPOSALS
  11. REFERENCES
  12. INDEX

Biography

Marina Sotiropoulou-Zormpala is Professor in Arts Education at the University of Crete, Greece.



Alexandra Mouriki is Associate Professor of Aesthetics and Aesthetic Education at the University of Patras, Greece.