Author: Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Education Program

Publication Year: 1979

Media Type: Report

Summary:

Abstract:

During the summer of 1980, the Education Program of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and CEMREL, Inc. co-sponsored a Summer Institute in the Arts and Aesthetic Education. Twenty-eight elementary and secondary school teachers and administrators from the Washington, D. C. area participated in the ten-day Institute.|The Institute was based on two premises. First, teaching students to become knowledgeable perceivers of the arts and the aesthetic dimension of their experiences is an important component of an educational program. Second, in order to adequately teach aesthetic education, teachers must be knowledgeable about and value the aesthetic dimension of their own experience and realize that the arts can be exemplars of the aesthetic.

Consistent with these premises, the Summer Institute was designed to 1) increase participants' aesthetic awareness and knowledge of the arts (personal growth in the arts), and 2) foster an understanding of the purposes and principles of aesthetic education and 3) assist teachers/administrators in designing aesthetic education program plans for their classroom/school setting. (p. 1)

CONTENTS
1. Introduction and purposes of the institute.

2. Overview of the institute design.

3. Curriculum of the institute.

A. Philosophy of aesthetic education.

B. Arts as exemplars of the aesthetic.
    1. Visual arts.
    2. Dance.
    3. Music.
    4. Expressive language.
    5. Theater.

Appendices:
     1. Summer institute presenters.
     2. Summer institute artists.
     3. Institute schedule.

Arts & Intersections:

Categories: Arts Education