03111oam 2200649I 450 991078363680332120230617002604.01-906510-87-31-134-42948-71-280-07305-50-203-40190-51-134-42949-50-203-41060-210.4324/9780203401903 (CKB)1000000000247627(EBL)178884(OCoLC)53167261(SSID)ssj0000288395(PQKBManifestationID)11231398(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000288395(PQKBWorkID)10373333(PQKB)10840969(MiAaPQ)EBC178884(Au-PeEL)EBL178884(CaPaEBR)ebr10096977(CaONFJC)MIL7305(OCoLC)958105457(EXLCZ)99100000000024762720180706d2003 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrAgainst the flow education, the arts and postmodern culture /Peter AbbsLondon :RoutledgeFalmer,2003.1 online resource (186 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-415-29792-3 0-415-29791-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.Book Cover; Title; Contents; Plates; Acknowledgements; Introduction; The poetics of education; The arts, postmodern culture and the inner dynamic of authentic education; On the spiritual in art, culture and education; The rise and fall of the new arts paradigm in education; The poetics of culture; The three faces of wisdom: literature and the arts as radical routes to understanding; The creative word and the creative life: a cultural map of autobiography from classical Greece to the postmodern crisis; Music, metaphor, meaning: a poetics before and after postmodernismThirty-nine notes towards a new metaphysical poetryArt against the Zeitgeist: on the work of four contemporary art-makers; Coda; Notes; Bibliography; IndexAt once provocative and inspiring, Against the Flow is a work of polemic from an internationally respected writer and thinker on arts education. Peter Abbs argues that contemporary education ignores the aesthetic and ethical as a result of being in thrall to such forces as the market economy and managerial and functional dictates. He identifies the present education system as being inimical to creativity and authentic learning and instead, narrowly focused on the quantitative measuring of results. This absence of a creative and ethical dimension in education has implications for art mArtsStudy and teachingPostmodernismArtsStudy and teaching.Postmodernism.700.71Abbs Peter1942-,911991MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910783636803321Against the flow3710737UNINA