LEADER 03085oam 2200637I 450 001 9910449986803321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-280-07305-5 010 $a0-203-40190-5 010 $a1-134-42949-5 010 $a0-203-41060-2 024 7 $a10.4324/9780203401903 035 $a(CKB)1000000000247627 035 $a(EBL)178884 035 $a(OCoLC)53167261 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000288395 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11231398 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000288395 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10373333 035 $a(PQKB)10840969 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC178884 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL178884 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10096977 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL7305 035 $a(OCoLC)958105457 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000247627 100 $a20180706d2003 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aAgainst the flow $eeducation, the arts and postmodern culture /$fPeter Abbs 210 1$aLondon :$cRoutledgeFalmer,$d2003. 215 $a1 online resource (186 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-415-29792-3 311 $a0-415-29791-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aBook 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 postmodernism 327 $aThirty-nine notes towards a new metaphysical poetryArt against the Zeitgeist: on the work of four contemporary art-makers; Coda; Notes; Bibliography; Index 330 $aAt 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 m 606 $aArts$xStudy and teaching 606 $aPostmodernism 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aArts$xStudy and teaching. 615 0$aPostmodernism. 676 $a700.71 700 $aAbbs$b Peter$f1942-,$0911991 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910449986803321 996 $aAgainst the flow$92042144 997 $aUNINA