Building community in schools through aesthetic curricular language
- UNCG Author/Contributor (non-UNCG co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
- Katherine Lee (Creator)
- Institution
- The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG )
- Web Site: http://library.uncg.edu/
- Advisor
- Susan W. Stinson
Abstract: This is an interdisciplinary, theoretical study of the two concepts, community and the aesthetic, and their intersection in curricular language. The notion of "curricular language" contains the belief that we create the world and come to value it through our use of language. It is claimed that the value of community for its members lies in its existential nature, but its value as a social entity depends on the ideological embodiment of the meanings and practices of its culture. Since a communitarian vision is antagonistic to the individualistic aesthetics of Western culture, the aesthetic is redefined to emphasize that an aesthetic engagement with the world signifies both a personal response and shared experience. It seeks to embrace rather than control the world. If the language of curriculum were aesthetic as well as scientific and technical, we could teach global understanding, international as well as interpersonal harmony, peace, justice, and compassion. Broad implications for schooling are outlined.
Building community in schools through aesthetic curricular language
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Additional Information
- Publication
- Dissertation
- Language: English
- Date: 1993
- Subjects
- Language and education
- Education, Humanistic
- Language and culture