SpringerBriefs in Education Aesthetic Literacies in School and Work - Georgina Barton Kartoniert (TB)

This book argues the importance of aesthetic literacies in learning and teaching in schools for future work. The study of aesthetics is critical in today's learning due to the increasingly complex ways in which we communicate meaning such as through the presentation of texts and objects. The book provides educators pre-service teachers and students an in-depth understanding of aesthetic literacies in innovative spaces including in philosophical literature environmental spaces curricula and classrooms. Using various theoretical frames from both the arts and literacy fields this book sha res relevant pedagogies theorisations and contexts where aesthetic literacies are at the core of learning. It emphasises how improved knowledge of aesthetics and quality experiences in beauty are vital in aiding students and young children develop the necessary resilience and tolerance needed in today's uncertain world.