Pleasure, Experience and Art
While in Sicily, Elizabeth Gilbert tries to understand a piece of the pleasure seeking Italian culture. In her book, Eat, Pray, Love, she refers to Luigi Barzini, an Italian journalist and author of The Italians who provides her with a large piece of the puzzle.
She writes, “Because the world is so corrupted, misspoken, unstable, [...]
Teacher Talents
I teach with some very talented people. Take the other teachers on my fourth grade team: one is a great artist, one is a pianist and singer and the other wows me at every staff meeting as she sketches boarders around her notes. And I think to myself, do their students [...]
What We’re About
Reflecting on three months of TIC’s new concept:
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response to “Learning to Take Risks, by Taking Risks on Art”
Thank you for sharing this story. It is a true testament to arts education and the values of all arts-infused learning. As a teacher, I hope I inspire my students to develop these skills that are intrinsic to the arts. Not just in arts education, but in arts integration is this possible.
These [...]
Pulling away from art to come back to it
One idea I keep coming back to in my mind from reading Dewey is this.
Actually, let me back up. My prob is that I keep thinking that Dewey is defining all experiences as art and it is confusing me. Does that mean that walking down the street is art if [...]
Dewey’s Art as Experience
I am reading this as part of a course I am taking and I’ve come across some interesting revelations in reading it, pondering it and discussing it with my teacher.
Experiences – they occur all the time, in fact, according to John Dewey life is a string of continuous experiences. He does [...]
