Physical Education, Aesthetic Education, and the Necessities of Democracy.

Swanger, David

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ERIC Number: EJ431839

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Publication Date: 1991

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Physical Education, Aesthetic Education, and the Necessities of Democracy.

Swanger, David

Art Education, v44 n2 p46-50 Mar 1991

Compares the place of physical education and art education in the school curriculum. Claims that physical education deadens feelings and that a healthy democracy needs compassion, imagination, and interconnectedness. Concludes that to reassert education for democracy there needs to be a replacement of the dominant ethos of the football machines with aesthetic education. (KM)

Descriptors: Art Education, Community Attitudes, Consciousness Raising, Democracy, Democratic Values, Educational Philosophy, Fine Arts, Physical Education, Social Influences, Values Clarification

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive

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Audience: Teachers; Practitioners

Language: English

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