The artist educators in this book invite you to come with them on a journey of discovery into
the meaning of teaching for aesthetic experience. With learning as their art they create
educational encounters with passion and feeling and leave their students with vivid
impressions growth and change. Each author engages in aesthetic experience from an individual
perspective - as poet dancer visual artist or musician - and each of them engages as an
educator who brings art into his or her classroom no matter what the subject. Inspired by the
words of philosopher Maxine Greene the contributors transform the theoretical into the
practical urging students to look to the arts and nature for simple beauty and awaken their
minds to new possibilities of creative learning.
