Headline for week 1

For my brief summation of last week's readings, I take a quote from Eisner which I feel bridges his work with Freedman's rather seamlessly.

“Put simply, art education should help students learn how to create and experience the aesthetic features of images and understand their relationship to the culture of which they are a part.” (p. 43)

Also, I know this goes WAY beyond the 50 word framework of this assignment, but I really wanted to call attention to another paragraph that struck a BIG cord with me. (One of those multi-layer highlighting, underlining, and brackets sort of passages.)  Brevity is not one of my virtues and sometimes I just can't help myself.

To see the world as matter in motion, the way a physicist might, provides a unique and telling view. To see it as a historian might is to get another angle on the world. To see it from an aesthetic frame of reference is to secure still another view. Each of these views makes possible distinctive forms of meaning. Education as a process can be thought of as enabling individuals to learn how to secure wide varieties of meaning and to deepen them over time. The outcomes of education can thus be said to diversify and deepen the kinds of meaning people know how to construct and to provide them with the appetite and ability to shift frames. (p. 45)

Here, here!