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Record Nr.

UNINA9910779303603321

Autore

Lewis Tyson E

Titolo

The aesthetics of education [[electronic resource] ] : theatre, curiosity, and politics in the work of Jacques Ranciere and Paulo Freire / / by Tyson E. Lewis

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Continuum International Pub. Group, c2012

ISBN

1-4411-6373-5

1-283-89128-X

1-4411-1826-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (201 p.)

Disciplina

370.1

Soggetti

Critical pedagogy

Theater - Political aspects

Democracy and education

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

FC; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Aesthetics of Education; Chapter One: From Stultification to Emancipation: Althusser avec Ranciè€re; Chapter Two: Aesthetic Metaphors: Teaching, Theatre, and Democracy; Chapter Three: The Beautiful and the Sublime in the Pedagogy of the Oppressed; Intermission: Equality, Freedom, and Emancipation: A Casefor Pedagogical Dramaturgy; Chapter Four: The Aesthetics of Curiosity; Chapter Five: The Knowledge of Ignorance; Chapter Six: The Future of the Image in Critical Pedagogy; Chapter Seven: Freire's Last Laugh

Conclusion: Death and Democracy in Education: Freire'sEaster RevisitedBibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This innovative book examines the aesthetic event of education.   Extending beyond the pedagogy of art or art appreciation, Tyson E. Lewis takes a much broader view of aesthetics and argues that teaching and learning are themselves aesthetic performances.  As Jacques Ranciere has recently argued, there is an inherent connection between aesthetics and politics, both of which disrupt conventional distributions



of who can speak and think.  Here, Lewis extends Ranciere's general thesis to examine how there is not only an aesthetics of politics but also an aesthetics of education.  In particular, L