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ERIC Number: EJ431839
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1991
Pages: N/A
Abstractor: N/A
Reference Count: 0
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-0004-3125
Physical Education, Aesthetic Education, and the Necessities of Democracy.
Swanger, David
Art Education, v44 n2 p46-50 Mar 1991
Compares the place of physical education and art education in the school curriculum. Claims that physical education deadens feelings and that a healthy democracy needs compassion, imagination, and interconnectedness. Concludes that to reassert education for democracy there needs to be a replacement of the dominant ethos of the football machines with aesthetic education. (KM)
Descriptors: Art Education, Community Attitudes, Consciousness Raising, Democracy, Democratic Values, Educational Philosophy, Fine Arts, Physical Education, Social Influences, Values Clarification
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: N/A
Audience: Teachers; Practitioners
Language: English
Sponsor: N/A
Authoring Institution: N/A
Identifiers: Aesthetics