Tarca, Jamie C.

GROUP 4: ART & EDUCATION / AESTHETIC DEVELOPMENT IN HIGHER EDUCATION: IN

INTERDISCIPLINARY DIALOGUE / UNDERSTANDING AESTHETIC EDUCATION
(PROCESS) AND CONCEPT OF AESTHETIC LITERACY

Aesthetic education is a teaching and learning strategy that incorporates students in

hands-on study, questioning, writing, and art creation in order to learn about works of art.
Aesthetics, usually spelled esthetics, is the philosophical study of beauty and taste. It's linked to
art philosophy, which is concerned with the nature of art and the concepts needed to
comprehend and evaluate individual works of art. According to Jacobs, Rachel on 2011,
Aesthetic literacy can be understood as a mode of cognition or a way of knowing. However, the
concept of aesthetics is often absent from conversations about learning and curriculum,
particularly in higher education settings. The concept of aesthetic literacy is also discussed, as
well as the difficulties that come with incorporating aesthetic learning into higher education.
These challenges are investigated through a narrative inquiry research that examines the views
of lecturers who employ aesthetic learning in their teaching. Aesthetic education  entails the
explicit instruction of skills, information, and understandings that improve the aesthetic
experience. Aesthetic awareness, on the other hand, can be heightened through aesthetic
education, in which students participate in expressive experiences that allow them to access
sentiment interpretations and emotional responses.

The act of transforming space into a learning space is known as aesthetic literacy. It's a
combination of perception, intelligence, and emotion, a realization that all settings are fertile
ground for learning if we modify our minds to receive it.

Aesthetic education has its importance. When aesthetics are viewed as private and
emotional responses that can only be engaged on an individual level, the value of aesthetic
education is further diminished. One school of thought holds that aesthetics is all about taste
and how to cultivate it, thereby restricting experiences to being purely subjective. It is commonly
seen as intangible, even less accessible than the concept of ‘creativity’.

Aesthetic Education is a method of reconnecting with the process of learning something

new, of being introduced to a medium that has never been experienced in a specific way before.
It is the integration of the arts into the curriculum in such a way that students develop a greater
awareness of and appreciation for everything that affects their life.Aesthetic education helps
students discover new ways of looking at, listening to, moving through, and speaking about their
everyday experiences since aesthetic quality is a part of all action, perception, and intelligent
cognition. Music, dance, drama, and the visual arts are the most direct ways to cultivate
aesthetic awareness since aesthetic quality is focused in the arts.