Education and Aesthetics - Classroom 2.02024-03-29T05:29:09Zhttps://www.classroom20.com/forum/topics/education-and-aesthetics?feed=yes&xn_auth=noIn a highly regarded RSA spee…tag:www.classroom20.com,2013-10-07:649749:Comment:9727272013-10-07T19:25:00.932ZMichael Skyerhttps://www.classroom20.com/profile/MichaelSkyer
<p>In a highly regarded RSA speech in 2008, popularized by a 2010 animated Internet meme, Sir Ken Robinson proposed a vision of the changing paradigms within education in the 21<sup>st</sup> century. In it, he spoke at length about problematic issues pervasive in the field; in one particularly lucid moment he observes an insidious dichotomy at work. He proposes that there exists a polar divide between education as an aesthetic experience and as an anesthetic experience. “An aesthetic experience…</p>
<p>In a highly regarded RSA speech in 2008, popularized by a 2010 animated Internet meme, Sir Ken Robinson proposed a vision of the changing paradigms within education in the 21<sup>st</sup> century. In it, he spoke at length about problematic issues pervasive in the field; in one particularly lucid moment he observes an insidious dichotomy at work. He proposes that there exists a polar divide between education as an aesthetic experience and as an anesthetic experience. “An aesthetic experience is when you senses are operating at their peak. When you are present in the current moment. And anesthetic (experience) is where you shut your senses off, and deaden yourself to what is happening…We are getting our children through education by anesthetizing them” (2008).</p>
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<p>We should not be putting our studetns to sleep. We should be waking them up!</p>