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Soft Boundaries - Re-Visioning the Arts and Aesthetics in American Education (Hardcover) Loot Price: R2,766
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Soft Boundaries - Re-Visioning the Arts and Aesthetics in American Education (Hardcover): Claire Detels

Soft Boundaries - Re-Visioning the Arts and Aesthetics in American Education (Hardcover)

Claire Detels

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American education and culture are suffering from a terrible, soul-numbing imbalance, in which there is an overemphasis on basic, quantifiable skills and knowledge and a de-emphasis of more creative areas of the humanities, especially the arts and aesthetics. Detels indicates that the marginalization of the arts and aesthetics in American education has been caused by a hard-boundaried paradigm that has come to dominate American education. According to this paradigm, the arts are wrongly viewed and taught as separate, unconnected disciplines of music, visual arts, dance, and theater, while their intimate connections to each other and to aesthetic experience and life in general are completely unrepresented.

The way out of this crisis is to change paradigms, from a hard-boundaried, single-minded valuation of specialization to a more soft-boundaried curriculum that allows for specialized education in individual art forms as well as widespread interdisciplinary integration of the arts with each other and with general education at the K-12 and college levels. Without such a change, we will be unable to equip our students with the necessary skills to understand and communicate about the increasingly complex, sensually immersive artistic media and forms of the future.

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Imprint: Praeger Publishers Inc
Country of origin: United States
Release date: November 1999
First published: November 1999
Authors: Claire Detels
Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 200
ISBN-13: 978-0-89789-666-5
Categories: Books > Arts & Architecture > The arts: general issues > General
Books > Social sciences > Education > Educational psychology
Books > Social sciences > Education > Organization & management of education > General
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LSN: 0-89789-666-1
Barcode: 9780897896665

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