Living Powers(rle Edu K) - The Arts in Education

When originally published this was the first book to offer a collective history of all the arts - Art, Drama, Dance, Music, Literature and Film - in the curriculum. It also offers a coherent framework for the teaching of arts which is in line with the best current trends since the Gulbenkian Report of 1982. It insists that the arts, seen together should be an essential part of the national curriculum.

List of contents

List of Plates and Illustrations. Preface Introduction Part 1: Confronting the Crisis Within the Arts 1. Towards a Coherent Arts Aesthetic Part 2: The Arts in Education: Their Collective History and Their Future Development 2. English as Aesthetic Initiative 3. ‘Towards the Condition of Music’: The Emergent Aesthetic of Music Education 4. Film is Dead: The Case for Resurrection. 5. The Dynamic Image: Changing Perspectives in Dance Education 6. Rifts and Reunions: A Reconstruction of the Development of Drama in Education 7. Towards a Shared Symbolic Order Part 3: Into the Future 8. A Brief Concluding Manifesto.Bibliographies. Notes on Contributors. Index.

About the author

Authored by Abbs, Peter

Summary

When originally published this was the first book to offer a collective history of all the arts – Art, Drama, Dance, Music, Literature and Film – in the curriculum. It also offers a coherent framework for the teaching of arts which is in line with the best current trends since the Gulbenkian Report of 1982. It insists that the arts, seen together should be an essential part of the national curriculum.

Product details

• Authors: Peter Abbs, Abbs Peter
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.02.2014
• EAN: 9780415751162
• ISBN: 978-0-415-75116-2
• No. of pages: 246
• Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education; Routledge Library Editions: Education
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works > Dictionaries, encyclopaedias; EDUCATION / General, REFERENCE / General, EDUCATION / Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects, Philosophy & theory of education, Philosophy and theory of education