The Educational Imperative: A Defence Of Socratic And Aesthetic Learning

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ISBN: 9780750703321 | 0750703326
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 10/1/1994

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Divided into four sections, the first examines the ends of education and outlines a conception of education as an initiation into critical enquiry and the personal art of learning. The middle sections consider aesthetic education. The final section offers appraisals of figures in the arts field.

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List of Plates and Figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Our Present Predicament	p. 1
On Education as Socratic Enquiry	p. 11
The Nature of Socratic Learning	p. 13
Intellectual Research as Socratic Activity	p. 25
On the Philosophy of Arts Education	p. 37
The Arts in the Public Realm: New Foundations for Aesthetic Education	p. 39
The Primacy of the Aesthetic: On the Nature of Aesthetic Response and the Meaning of the Aesthetic Field	p. 51
The Generic Community of the Arts: Its Historical Development and Educational Value	p. 71
From Babble to Rhapsody: On the Nature of Artistic Creativity	p. 95
On the Practice of Arts Education	p. 115
Educational Drama as Cultural Dispossession	p. 117
The Teaching of Literature as an Arts Discipline	p. 139
The Place of Creative Writing in the Development of Teachers	p. 157
Tributes and Evaluations	p. 179
Herbert Read, Modernism and the Dilemmas of Self-Expression	p. 181
Peter Fuller as Art Critic and Educator	p. 195
David Holbrook, the Tradition of Poetic Humanism and the Teaching of the Arts	p. 215
Coda	p. 229
Sources: Chapters	p. 231
Sources: Illustrations	p. 232
Bibliography	p. 233
Index	p. 245
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The Educational Imperative: A Defence Of Socratic And Aesthetic Learning

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