Against the flow : education, the arts and postmodern culture / / Peter Abbs
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| Autore: |
Abbs Peter <1942-, >
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| Titolo: |
Against the flow : education, the arts and postmodern culture / / Peter Abbs
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| Pubblicazione: | London : , : RoutledgeFalmer, , 2003 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (186 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 700.71 |
| Soggetto topico: | Arts - Study and teaching |
| Postmodernism | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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 postmodernism |
| Thirty-nine notes towards a new metaphysical poetryArt against the Zeitgeist: on the work of four contemporary art-makers; Coda; Notes; Bibliography; Index | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | At 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Against the flow |
| ISBN: | 1-906510-87-3 |
| 1-134-42948-7 | |
| 1-280-07305-5 | |
| 0-203-40190-5 | |
| 1-134-42949-5 | |
| 0-203-41060-2 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910783636803321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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