Aesthetics & Education - The Ambivalence of an Indispensable Relation
There can be no doubt that aesthetics and education are inextricably linked to each other. Not only are educational acts always performed as acts of mediation, using media which are governed and shaped by rules and insights of aesthetics and aesthetic considerations, but also genuine aesthetic expressions, e.g. in the arts, usually are presented to the public with a more or less overt educational agenda. One a much deeper level, it can even be shown that edcuational thinking is in itself aesthetic in the way it has to build on certain ideas of space and time, the two foundational aesthetic categories. The research that is done with regard to this complex of questions aims to explore further the relations of education and aesthetics in an interdisciplinary and intercultural perspective.