John Dewey, Robert Pirsig, and the Art of Living Revisioning Aesthetic Education

"This book integrates the writings of philosopher John Dewey and popular author Robert Pirsig to develop a new and expansive version of aesthetic education. With a narrative context and concrete examples provided by Pirsig's best-selling book Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, David Granger uses Dewey's works to demonstrate how to cultivate the art of experience as part of an everyday experience is, for Dewey, paradigmatic of learning and growth. Granger's approach is highly interdisciplinary throughout, drawing on philosophy, the arts, literature, literary criticism. and the social sciences."--BOOK JACKET.

David A. Granger is Associate Professor of Education, Ella Cline Shear School of Education, The State University of New York at Geneseo.