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An anarchy of cultures: aesthetics and the changing school

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posted on 2024-06-03, 07:46 authored by R Bates
It is the contention of this paper that schools are currently sandwiched between demands of the economy on one side and increasingly fundamentalist communities on the other; that schools need some degree of autonomy from each; that the greatest challenge of the century is how we can live together despite our differences; and that the only way of successfully meeting this challenge is for schools to put social justice at the heart of their activities, activities that are best informed by the cultivation of reasoned imagination – that is, by an aesthetic approach to the development of intellectual, social, cultural, economic and personal identities.

History

Journal

Critical Studies in Education

Volume

53

Pagination

59-70

Location

Melbourne, Vic.

ISSN

1750-8487

eISSN

1750-8495

Language

eng

Publication classification

C1.1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal

Copyright notice

2012, Taylor & Francis

Issue

1

Publisher

Routledge