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AESTHETIC EDUCATION
The Institute for Aesthetic Education piloted its local programs
for schools at the Julia Morgan Center for the Arts in June
2001. Aesthetic education is inquiry-based, experiential,
creative and empowering, requiring immersion and reflection based
on live multidisciplinary arts experiences. As practiced by the
Lincoln Center Institute, aesthetic education helps students
of all ages develop two related capacities: receptivity to experiencing
any given artwork, and the ability to reflect on that experience.
PHILOSOPHY
Dr. Maxine Greene, Professor of Philosophy and Education, Teachers
College, Columbia University, played an active role in developing
the philosophy of The Lincoln Center Institute, that the arts-dance,
music, theatre and the visual arts-belong alongside the three
"R's" in school curriculum. Along with Dr. Greene,
we at the Julia Morgan Center for the Arts believe that experiencing
an art work in all its dimensions is as basic to enlightened
citizenship as an understanding of mathematics, history or social
traditions.
PROCESS
Each summer, teachers participate in a five-day training session during which they experience and explore the same works of art their students will study during the following school year. The teachers break out into subject and age groups to brainstorm curriculum connections. The teaching artists and classroom teachers then brainstorm overarching themes related to the
work of art. Picking one of these themes, the teachers and teaching artists
create a line of inquiry that will guide the study of the work of art in the
classroom.
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Additional Resources
AIAE
The Institute at the Julia Morgan Center for the Arts is a member of the Association of Institutes of Aesthetic Education. To learn more, click here to go to the official AIAE Website.
ARTS4LEARNING
Our Institute Program is now featured on the website Arts4Learning. Go to
www.arts4learning.org and search under "Julia Morgan."
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TESTIMONIALS
"Because we give ourselves
permission to ask why or how or when, we move to a level of understanding
that makes us one with the subject. We become both the singer
and the song. We become both the painter and the painting. It
is here where we construct meaning and make connections. But
we cannot come to this level with out searching through questions
and inquiry."
--Sonca P. Thompson (Teacher), New York
"When I began at Lincoln Center,
I was ready to learn how to be a better teacher. Instead, I was
taught how to be a better learner. I feel like I conquered a
personal aversion to the pretenses of art and learned that the
works of Shakespeare, Picasso, and Beethoven can be accessible
to everyone, especially my students."
--Allison Kessler (Teacher), New York
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