Teaching for Aesthetic Experience

Contents: Shaun McNiff: Foreword - Gene Diaz/Martha Barry McKenna: Introduction: Imagining Questions - Maxine Greene: Carpe Diem: The Arts and School Restructuring - Sheng Kuan Chung: Zen (Ch'an) and Aesthetic Education - Martha Barry McKenna: Monday at the Met: Engaging with Works of Art Outside the Museum - Marjorie Cohee Manifold: In a Bishonan Boarding House: Time, Space, and the Social Dimensions of an Info Age Aesthetic - Gene Diaz: Experiencing the Moment - Karel Rose: Everything Changes: Transformative Thinking through Aesthetic Experience - Celeste Snowber: An Aesthetics of Everyday Life - Lisa Donovan: Unlocking the Aesthetic Experience: Exploring the Arts in the Classroom - Rishma Dunlop: Red Shoes: The Woman Artist/Educator in the Ivory Tower - Margaret Macintyre Latta: Curriculum as Medium for Sense Making: Giving Expression to Teaching/Learning Aesthetically - Craig Kridel: Biographical Imaginations: Aesthetic Adventures and Explorations in Living History - Joyce Salvage: Telling Tales Outside of School: Coconstructions of Self - Gene Diaz/Martha Barry McKenna: A Gathering of Voices.

The Editors: Gene Diaz, Associate Dean of the Graduate School of the Arts and Social Sciences at Lesley University, received her Ph.D. in curriculum at the University of New Orleans.
Martha Barry McKenna, Provost of Lesley University, received her Ed.D. in music, the arts and humanities from Teachers College, Columbia University, where she was a student of Maxine Greene.

«'Teaching for Aesthetic Experience: The Art of Learning' is everywhere imprinted with the wisdom and vision of luminary Maxine Greene, even as it provides examples of curricula that breathe practical life into Greene's artful writing. In a range of engaging presentations, these thoughtful educators provide insight into and examples of aesthetic education in action. The descriptions of approaches and activities encompass a variety of artistic domains, serve a range of student populations, and span the breadth of Eastern and Western thought. We hear the voice of Greene as philosopher of education in the opening essay and feel the impact of Greene as teacher of teachers in the multiple interpretations and demonstrations of wide awakeness that resonate through the text. The contributors to this volume eloquently offer readers reasons and ways to engage students in what Greene calls 'the always unfinished dialogue to which works of art give rise'. Educators in all disciplines will benefit from this vital and vibrant discourse. (Jessica Hoffmann Davis, EdD Patricia Bauman and John Landrum Bryant Senior Lecturer Director, Arts in Education Program, Harvard Graduate School of Education)
«Of any philosopher over the last century, Maxine Greene has profoundly influenced our aesthetic and pedagogic sensibilities by moving us toward an aesthetic education. In 'Teaching for Aesthetic Experience', Maxine Greene's voice is not only present, it resonates through the voice of each author as he or she narratively renders their unique understanding of 'Teaching for Aesthetic Experience'. The edited volume is a testament to its own title. The authors teach for aesthetic experience by enacting it before our eyes. Their encounters release one's imagination by storying the wonders of everyday life while immersing us in a wide-awakeness aching for aesthetic expression and appreciation. Their encounters also provoke our senses and free us to transform our realities by deepening our