03127nam 2200661Ia 450 991095834530332120251116174950.01-906510-87-31-134-42948-71-280-07305-50-203-40190-51-134-42949-50-203-41060-210.4324/9780203401903 (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)99100000000024762720030108d2003 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrAgainst the flow education, the arts and postmodern culture /Peter Abbs1st ed.London RoutledgeFalmer20031 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 Peter1942-911991MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910958345303321Against the flow4488674UNINA