Fall 2018 - EDUC 848 G001
Ideas and Issues in Aesthetic Education (5)
Class Number: 1944
Delivery Method: In Person
Overview
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Course Times + Location:
Sep 4 – Dec 3, 2018: Tue, 4:30–9:20 p.m.
Surrey
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Instructor:
Celeste Snowber
celeste@sfu.ca
1 778 782-4453
Description
CALENDAR DESCRIPTION:
This course relates critical ideas in aesthetics to questions concerning the nature, purpose, and provision of the arts (visual art, music, drama, dance, literature) in education.
COURSE DETAILS:
This course critically explores the areas of aesthetics and aesthetic education and living aesthetically in the context of arts education and everyday aesthetics. The course will address the key questions: What is aesthetics? What are its key concepts, purposes and methods? How might aesthetics contribute to arts and aesthetic education? How might a philosophical understanding of aesthetics guide both inquiry and a teaching practice? What are the relationships between culture, urban environments, ecology, and identity and public art? Students will be encouraged to develop and articulate their own philosophy of aesthetics as it relates to their teaching and artistic practice. Particular emphasis will be on the aesthetics of place, site-specific work and public art as a contemporary issue in aesthetic education. There will be a variety of field trips integrated in this course which will be off-site including attendance as a class to the Vancouver Art Gallery, Surrey Art Gallery, Public Art in the City of Surrey, Green Timbers Urban Forest and live performance. These will occur during class time on Tuesday evenings (Some times may change, but destinations will remain the same and performance will be TBA)
Dates off campus (part of class will be at the following)
Sept. 11 - Art installation Holland Park
Sept. 18 – Green Timbers Urban Forest https://www.surrey.ca/culture-recreation/2104.aspx
Sept. 25 – Public Art Surrey City Hall
Oct. 2 - Vancouver Art Gallery http://www.vanartgallery.bc.ca/
Nov. 6 - Surrey Art Gallery https://www.surrey.ca/culture-recreation/1619.aspx
COURSE-LEVEL EDUCATIONAL GOALS:
Students will be able to more clearly articulate their own philosophical understanding of aesthetics and how it connects to their inquiry, research, art making, curriculum and teaching. A broader understanding of what aesthetics is philosophically, socially, culturally, autobiographically, and the interconnection between these realms. A deeper appreciation and phenomenological understanding to what it means to “live aesthetically.” Make the connections between aesthetics and place, pedagogy of place and site-specific work in the context of a variety of forms of art/performance and public art.
Grading
- Place and Aesthetics: An arts-based project with presentation 50%
- Essay on “A personal philosophy of aesthetics” 50%
NOTES:
1. Place and Aesthetics: An arts-based project with presentation 50% Through one or more art-forms (i.e. prose, poetry, narrative, musical composition, storytelling, dance, screenwriting, drama, sculpture, painting, etc.) explore the connections between place and aesthetics. In connection to this project you will lead the group in a process that makes these connections, and share the site you have been integrating as part of your inquiry. Write a 3 page reflection from your significant learnings from this place-based inquiry on aesthetics. DUE: Throughout semester from October 9 to November 6. 2. Essay on “A personal philosophy of aesthetics” 50% This is an opportunity for you to write a concise, artistic, and beautiful small piece, which explores what aesthetics, means to you in connection to your own learning, knowing and teaching. It can include a variety of forms of writing; including performative or poetic as well as integration of other scholars informing your aesthetic. This is more of a distillation, than a huge overview and emphasis will be on “writing aesthetically.” Integration of other artistic forms within the piece are welcome. You will present your philosophy at the end of the semester on November 27.
REQUIREMENTS:
All assignments, reading and active participation are required
Materials
REQUIRED READING:
Landscapes of aesthetic education. (2011). Richmond, S. & Snowber, C. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
ISBN: 978-1-4438-1396-9
Arts-based and contemplative practices in research and teaching: Honouring presence. (2015). S. Walsh, B. Bickel, & C. Leggo (Eds.). NY: Routledge.
ISBN: 978-0-4157-4387-7
Wabi-Sabi for Artists, Designers, Poets and Philosophers . (1994) Leonard Koren. Berkeley, CA: Stonebridge Press.
ISBN: 978-0-9814846-0-0
RECOMMENDED READING:
Living artfully: Reflections from the far west coast. (2012). A. Sinner & C. Lowther, (Eds.) Toronto, ON: Key Publishing House.
ISBN: 9781926780146
Poetic inquiry III: Enchantments of Place (pp. 337-346). P. Sameshima, C. Leggo, K. James, & A. Fidyk, (Eds.). Wilmington, Delaware: Vernon Press.
ISBN: 978-1-62273-123-7
Graduate Studies Notes:
Important dates and deadlines for graduate students are found here: http://www.sfu.ca/dean-gradstudies/current/important_dates/guidelines.html. The deadline to drop a course with a 100% refund is the end of week 2. The deadline to drop with no notation on your transcript is the end of week 3.
Registrar Notes:
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