Stefan-Sebastian Maftei
The last three decades have seen growing interest in Schiller’s aesthetics, as well as in Rousseau’s ideas about the social and civilisational effect of the arts. Alongside these newly discovered interests, there has also been a gradual development of a research interest pertaining to the topic of aesthetic education, especially coming from the interdisciplinary area of applied pedagogical sciences, and particularly with reference to the research in arts education. Studies in the 1980’s and 1990’s have dedicated a lot of time to the redefining and putting into practice of a two century-old notion such as “aesthetic education.” Within this context, and precisely with these new expectations in mind, this volume recasts the importance of the historical notion of “aesthetic education” in the works of Schiller and Rousseau into a new light, while it also indirectly reassess the relevance of this historical concept within the framework of the current research in arts education and educational theory in general.
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