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On Hanging Laundry: The Place Of Beauty In Managing Everyday Life, Pauliina Rautio
On Hanging Laundry: The Place Of Beauty In Managing Everyday Life, Pauliina Rautio
Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)
The data of my empirical research in the field of education discussed in this paper consist of letters produced through correspondence. I asked the participants to write about beauty in their everyday lives, giving substance to the concept as freely as they could. In this paper it is only the letters of one participant, Laura, which I limit my attention to. The aim is to find out what kind of place beauty, as defined and used by herself, holds in the managing of her everyday life. The concept of beauty is virtually missing from educational research or is misguidedly restricted …