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Aesthetic education; arts education; teaching in higher education; teacher as learner
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Aesthetic And Pedagogical Compasses: The Self In Motion, Liora Bresler
Aesthetic And Pedagogical Compasses: The Self In Motion, Liora Bresler
Artizein: Arts and Teaching Journal
This is a story of composing and being composed by “Aesthetics and curriculum”, a course I taught for 28 years at the University of Illinois. The course aimed at living with questions, as Rilke famously suggested, rather than seeking ultimate answers; heightened experience, wonder and exploration rather than mastery; creating openings rather than pre-destined knowledge. Tuning inward and outward were complementary processes that supported each other in a dynamic conversation involving artworks, the self, and aesthetic theories. We learned about ourselves in the process of encountering artworks and aesthetic theories, and, in turn, the encounter with our individual selves was …