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The Educational Imperative is a book that defends the idea of Socratic and aesthetic learning. It argues that these forms of learning are important and fit for the current cultural and moral crisis. The book is divided into four sections, each discussing a different type of learning. The first section discusses the true ends of education and outlines a positive conception of education as an initiation into critical enquiry and the personal art of learning. The second section discusses aesthetic education and how it should be taught. The third section discusses critical appraisals of influential figures in the arts field and their impact on education. The fourth and final section discusses how education can move forward in the future.
Written with both the cultural and moral crisis and the challenge of the future in mind, Peter Abbs's book charts an open, clear, and positive way forward for education. Divided into four sections, the first examines the true and fitting ends of education and outlines a positive conception of education as an initiation into critical enquiry and the personal art of learning. The two middle sections consider aesthetic education. Abbs confronts government approaches to arts teaching and offers an alternative dynamic paradigm within which the creativity of the culture transmitted down the ages and the creativity of the individual seen as biologically given must be combined. The outcome of this is explored, in detail, in relation to the teaching of literature, creative writing and drama. The final section offers critical appraisals of influential figures in the arts field:; Herbert Reid, the late Peter Fuller and David Holbrook.
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