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Art as Fulfilment: on the Justification of Education in the Arts
Author(s) -
Koopman Constantijn
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
journal of philosophy of education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.501
H-Index - 41
eISSN - 1467-9752
pISSN - 0309-8249
DOI - 10.1111/j.0309-8249.2005.00421.x
Subject(s) - contemplation , the arts , visual arts education , value (mathematics) , cohesion (chemistry) , sociology , epistemology , arts in education , philosophy of education , position (finance) , aesthetics , psychology , pedagogy , social psychology , higher education , political science , philosophy , visual arts , art , law , economics , chemistry , organic chemistry , finance , machine learning , computer science
This article critically examines current ways of justifying a place for the arts in general education and develops an alternative position. First, justifications relying on the positive non‐artistic outcomes of art education are represented and problems exposed. Next, I discuss and criticise the position of John White, who takes the arts to promote self‐knowledge, ethical contemplation and social cohesion. Then I develop a new account of artistic value based on the concept of fulfilment.