The role and purpose of the arts in education in the twenty-first century

Review: Art, Artists and Pedagogy. Philosophy and the Arts in Education (New York: Routledge, 2018)

ANNETTE ZIEGENMEYER

University of Wuppertal, Wuppertal, Germany

ziegenmeyer@uni-wuppertal.de

In their book Art, Artists and Pedagogy, Christopher Naughton, Gert Biesta and David R. Cole (editors) and other co-authors explore new ways to rethink arts education in the twenty-first century via two main philosophies in education. The first one is based on Gert Biesta’s work, The Rediscovery of Teaching, that focuses on the relation of the arts to the world and on what kind of society we may wish to envisage by using concepts such as “grown-up-ness” and “middle ground.” The second is based on Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, who provide a theoretical framework to look more deeply into the influence of state and global capital when taking decisions on how art education should develop in the future. Within their different positions, both philosophies also complement each other by sharing some relevant aspects concerning, for example, the value of arts in society.

For the full review please go to the Philosophy of Music Education Review:https://muse.jhu.edu/article/721689