Description
Book SynopsisExamines the aesthetic event of education. This title takes a broader view of aesthetics and argues that teaching and learning are themselves aesthetic performances. It focuses on several questions: What are the possibilities and limitations of building analogies between teachers and artists, education and specific aesthetic forms? And, more.
Trade Review"In this book Tyson Lewis provides a penetrating analysis of the work of Jacques Ranciere as it pertains to the theory and practice of education. The book is an engaging, compelling, highly original and much needed intervention in current discussions about education, politics and democracy." - Gert Biesta, University of Stirling, UK
Table of ContentsTable of Contents; Introduction:; The Aesthetics of Education; Chapter One:; From Stultification to Emancipation: Althusser avec Ranciere; Chapter Two:; Aesthetic Forms: Teaching, Theatre, and Democracy; Chapter Three:; The Beautiful and the Sublime in the Pedagogy of the Oppressed; Intermission:; Equality, Freedom, and Emancipation: A Case for Pedagogical Dramaturgy; Chapter Four:; The Aesthetics of Curiosity; Chapter Five:; The Knowledge of Ignorance; Chapter Six:; The Future of the Image in Critical Pedagogy; Chapter Seven:; Freire's Last Laugh; Conclusion:; Death and Democracy in Education: Freire's Easter.
