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  2. Dark academia - Wikipedia

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    Dark academia is a literary aesthetic [1] and subculture [2] concerned with higher education, the arts, and literature, or an idealised version thereof. The aesthetic centres on traditional educational clothing, interior design, activities such as writing and poetry , ancient art , and classic literature , as well as classical Greek and ...

  3. Aesthetics - Wikipedia

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    Aesthetics examines the philosophy of aesthetic value, which is determined by critical judgments of artistic taste; [2] thus, the function of aesthetics is the "critical reflection on art, culture and nature". [3] [4] Aesthetics studies natural and artificial sources of experiences and how people form a judgment about those sources of experience.

  4. Maxine Greene - Wikipedia

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    Sarah Maxine Greene (née Meyer; December 23, 1917 – May 29, 2014) was an American educational philosopher, author, social activist, and teacher.Described upon her death as "perhaps the most iconic and influential living figure associated with Teachers College, Columbia University", [1] she was a pioneer for women in the field of philosophy of education, often being the sole woman presenter ...

  5. History of aesthetics - Wikipedia

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    His letters on aesthetic education (Uber die asthetische Erziehung des Menschen, trans. by J. Weiss, Boston, 1845) are valuable, bringing out among other points the connexion between aesthetic activity and the universal impulse to play (Spieltrieb). Schiller's thoughts on aesthetic subjects are pervaded with the spirit of Kant's philosophy.

  6. Philosophy of education - Wikipedia

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    The Classical education movement advocates a form of education based in the traditions of Western culture, with a particular focus on education as understood and taught in the Middle Ages. The term "classical education" has been used in English for several centuries, with each era modifying the definition and adding its own selection of topics.

  7. Art as Experience - Wikipedia

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    A further common substance to all works of art is related to the idea of means and ends. In aesthetic works and aesthetic experience, means and ends coalesce. Means are ends in the aesthetic. The non-aesthetic has a clear separation of means and ends: means are merely means, mechanical steps used solely to achieve the desired end. Dewey uses ...

  8. Aestheticism - Wikipedia

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    Aestheticism (also known as the aesthetic movement) was an art movement in the late 19th century that valued the appearance of literature, music, fonts and the arts over their functions. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] According to Aestheticism, art should be produced to be beautiful, rather than to teach a lesson , create a parallel , or perform another didactic ...

  9. Jacques Rancière - Wikipedia

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    Notes on the Politics of Aesthetics. Fillip. Book Review. 2006; Juha Suoranta (2010). Jacques Rancière on Radical Equality and Adult Education Archived 2011-07-21 at the Wayback Machine. The Encyclopaedia of Philosophy of Education (in French) "Jacques Rancière, l'indiscipliné" Archived 2009-02-15 at the Wayback Machine.