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

    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 experiences. 





    The book explores how the core ideas of four main aesthetic approaches – the representationalist, the expressionist, the formalist, and the postmodernist – translate into respective ways of designing and implementing experiential aesthetics-based activities. Containing relevant examples of interventions used in classes, it analyzes the ways in which the combination of different aesthetic approaches can support varied, multifaceted, multimodal and balanced teaching situations in school.



    This innovative book will appeal to academics, researchers, professionals and students in the fields of arts education, early childhood and primary education and curriculum studies.

    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.