Against the Flow : Education, the Art and Postmodern Culture

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Creativity and ethics in modern education

This book is a powerful polemic argument that passionately urges for the incorporation of ethical and aesthetic energies to confront the emptiness of contemporary culture. Peter Abbs argues against the present education system, which he believes concentrates on the quantitative assessment of results and ignores the aesthetic and ethical dimensions. The book appeals to individuals interested in modern education and contemporary culture, using examples from modern poetry, literature, and visual arts.

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Against the Flow : Education, the Art and Postmodern Culture

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ISBN: 9780415297929
Authors: Peter Abbs
Publisher: Routledge
Date of Publication: 2003-06-05
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Personal Development, Sociology, Art, Philosophy
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At once provocative and inspiring, Against the Flow is a work of polemic from an internationally respected writer and thinker on arts education. Peter Abbs argues that contemporary education ignores the aesthetic and ethical as a result of being in thrall to such forces as the market economy and managerial and functional dictates. He identifies the present education system as being inimical to creativity and authentic learning and instead, narrowly focused on the quantitative measuring of results. This absence of a creative and ethical dimension in education has implications for art making in wider society. Art is shown as emerging from, and appealing to, the ironic postmodernist sensibility and mass media-led culture, while being devoid of philosophical significance.This book opens up a fresh and timely debate about the vital power of creativity in modern education. Drawing on examples from modern poetry, literature and visual art, it is an eloquent and passionate argument for the need to develop ethical and aesthetic energies to confront the growing vacuity of contemporary culture.
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Creativity and ethics in modern education

This book is a powerful polemic argument that passionately urges for the incorporation of ethical and aesthetic energies to confront the emptiness of contemporary culture. Peter Abbs argues against the present education system, which he believes concentrates on the quantitative assessment of results and ignores the aesthetic and ethical dimensions. The book appeals to individuals interested in modern education and contemporary culture, using examples from modern poetry, literature, and visual arts.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.