The Significance and Role of Aesthetic Education in Schooling

Olga Denac

Faculty of Education, University of Maribor, Maribor, Slovenia.

DOI: 10.4236/ce.2014.519190                

Abstract

Every child needs planned, aesthetic education in order to influence the experiencing, feeling and enjoying of beautiful things as a counterbalance to our currently rationalized world. Since the contemporary school strives for the development of professional knowledge and skills on the basis of intellectual actions, while (at the same time) neglecting other dimensions of the child’s personality (emotions, feelings, etc.), it is one of the most important tasks of the education of children and young people to develop the ability to enjoy art and beauty, and in one’s inner and outer life to act in accordance with a sense of proportion, harmony and beauty. The purpose of the article is to highlight the significance of aesthetic education in the development of the personality as a whole, to shed light on the aims of aesthetic education, to define the aesthetic dimension of experience and to ascertain the reasons for the neglect of aesthetic education in theory and practice.

Keywords

Aesthetic Education, Aesthetic Experience, Planning of the Educational Process

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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