Beyond Beauty : Aesthetic Philosophy as a Tool for Liberatory Education /
What does it mean to live a life of beauty and liberation? In an era marked by divisive debates over curriculum, justice, and inclusion in education, this book calls us to return to a fundamental question: our shared humanity. This book is an integrative work weaving together the lived experiences o...
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Format: eBook
Language: English
Published:
Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2025.
Series:
Arts, Creativities, and Learning Environments in Global Perspectives ;
17.
Educational Research E-Books Online, Collection 2026.
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Call Number: LA227.3
- List of Figures
- Introduction
- 1 What Is Beauty?
- 2 Why Aesthetics in Education
- 3 Beauty Alone Will Not Save Us
- 4 Development and Research Scope of the APTL
- 5 Avoiding the Quick Fix Paradox
- 6 Framework and Book Structure
- 1 Unpacking Oppression
- 1 Oppression as a Transformative Apparatus
- 2 Oppression Is Trauma
- 3 Wasting Time & Energy
- 2 Experiences
- 1 Aesthetic Experiences: The Gateway to Understanding
- 3 Encounters
- 1 Encounters and Education
- 2 Aesthetic Schema and Perception
- 3 The Power of Exposure
- 4 Oops, All Trauma!
- 5 Let the Teachers Teach! Teach the Teachers!
- 6 Encounter in Community
- 4 Reckoning with Ugliness
- 1 Dehumanization as Ugliness
- 2 Return to Sender: A Cycle of Ugliness
- 3 The Aesthetic Value of Language
- 4 Ugliness as Transformation
- 5 Envisioning the Sublime
- 1 A Brief Not So Enlightened History of the Sublime
- 2 A Fork in the Road to Action
- 3 Internalized Inferiority
- 4 We All Deserve Safety
- 5 Freedom Dreaming and Sublimity
- 6 Art of Action
- 1 Artful Action
- 2 Processing and Redirecting Emotions
- 3 Creativity and Courage
- 4 Strategies for Resisting Oppression
- 5 Can't Stop, Won't Stop: Avoiding Burnout
- 6 Navigating Resistance to Action
- Epilogue: Words of Light for Dark Days
- 1 The Journey We've Taken Together
- References
- Index.