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Theorizing Transformative Education: An Exploration Into Marcuse’S Aesthetic Dimension, Adrienne Pickett Jan 2016

Theorizing Transformative Education: An Exploration Into Marcuse’S Aesthetic Dimension, Adrienne Pickett

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In this paper, I propose that the underlying quality of transformation is what Herbert Marcuse calls the aesthetic dimension. I use aesthetic language to understand better the nature of transformative education.