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Awarded an Honorable Mention for the 2022 Society of Professors of Education Outstanding Book Award
Imagining Dewey features productive (re)interpretations of 21st century experience using the lens of John Dewey's Art as Experience, through the doubled task of putting an array of international philosophers, educators, and artists-researchers in transactional dialogue and on equal footing in an academic text. This book is a pragmatic attempt to encourage application of aesthetic learning and living, ekphrasic interpretation, critical art, and agonist pluralism.
There are two foci: (a) Deweyan philosophy and educational themes with (b) analysis and examples of how educators, artists, and researchers envision and enact artful meaning making. This structure meets the needs of university and high school audiences, who are accustomed to learning about challenging ideas through multimedia and aesthetic experience.
Contributors are: James M. Albrecht, Adam I. Attwood, John Baldacchino, Carolyn L. Berenato, M. Cristina Di Gregori, Holly Fairbank, Jim Garrison, Amanda Gulla, Bethany Henning, Jessica Heybach, David L. Hildebrand, Ellyn Lyle, Livio Mattarollo, Christy McConnell Moroye, María-Isabel Moreno-Montoro, María Martínez Morales, Stephen M. Noonan, Louise G. Phillips, Scott L. Pratt, Joaquin Roldan, Leopoldo Rueda, Tadd Ruetenik, Leísa Sasso, Bruce Uhrmacher, David Vessey, Ricardo Marín Viadel, Sean Wiebe, Li Xu and Martha Patricia Espíritu Zavalza.
Contents
Foreword
Jim Garrison
List of Figures
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Patricia L. Maarhuis and A. G. Rud
Part 1: Art Is/Is Not Experience
1. Art as Experience, Experience as Art
M. Cristina Di GreGori, Livio Mattarollo and Leopoldo Rueda
2. Travels through China in the Dewey and Barnes Letters: Arts, education, and politics
Carolyn L. Berenato
3. Art Is (Not) Experience: Engaging Dewey in Reverse
John Baldacchino
Part 2: Performance & Happenings
4. The Aesthetics of Rehearsal
Scott L. Pratt
5. Building Experience: Fiction Account as Narrative Support and Product of Artistic Investigation
Martha Patricia Espíritu Zavalza
6. Collapsing Life and Art
David Vessey
7. The Artworks of Women: Weaving in a Semiotic and Pragmatic Performative Action
María-Isabel Moreno-Montoro
Part 3: Encounters & Relationships
8. Dewey's Art as Experience: A Guide in an Age of Personal Technology
David L. Hildebrand
9. Images of Injustice: The Problem of Visual Culture in Dewey's Aesthetics
Jessica A. Heybach
10. Illumination: Teacher Education and the Aesthetic Encounter
Sean Wiebe and Ellyn Lyle
Part 4: Dissonance & Reflection
11. Experiencing Art and Social Science: A Multimodal Poetic Perception of Social Ecological Cohesion
Adam I. Attwood
12. Aesthetic Experiences and Dewey's Descendants: Poetic Inquiry as a Way of Knowing
Amanda N. Gulla
13. "Art Is More Moral than Moralities": Deweyan Reflections on Literature in/as Education
James M. Albrecht
14. Father Catich and the Clean-Cut Christs: Re-presenting American Values Then and Now
Tadd Ruetenik
Part 5: Time, Space, & Nature
15. Eco-Aesthetic Experiences: A Deweyan Framework for Ecological Aims in Schools
Christy McConnell Moroye and P. Bruce Uhrmacher
16. Temporality and Spatiality in Artwork: Dewey and Traditional Chinese Painting
Li Xu
17. Articulation from an Aesthetic Environment: Experience of research A/r/tographic
María Martínez Morales
18. Aesthetic Experiences of Making with Paper: The (Artist-Infused) Corner for Under Eight Year Olds
Louise G. Phillips
Part 6: Transformation & The Work of Art
19. Sincerity in the Work of Art
Bethany N. Henning
20. Practicing the New School: Dewey, A/r/tography and the Intrusion of Poetics in Education
Leísa Sasso
21. Arts Based Educational Research and Social Transformation: A Project of Social A/r/tography
Ricardo Marín-Viadel and Joaquin Roldan
22. Imagination, Inquiry, and Voice: A Deweyan Approach to Education in a 21st Century Urban High School
Amanda N. Gulla, Holly Fairbank, and Stephen Noonan
Index
