8 Ergebnisse.

is the new poem sequence by Peter Abbs. In this collection, he traces a recurrent movement from autobiography to myth from concern with place and identity to a preoccupation with persona (mask) and myth a movement from the heart to the imagination and back to the heart. Using the lives of characters from history and mythology-painters philosophers poets-he explores the creative experiences of a variety of men and women. these poems are placed ...

Divided into four sections, the first examines the ends of education and outlines a conception of education as an initiation into critical enquiry and the personal art of learning. The middle sections consider aesthetic education. The final section offers appraisals of figures in the arts field.

This is an argument for the need to reconsider the role and the nature of arts education so that creativity is fostered and that education as a whole is liberated from a narrow focus shaped by the market economy and the ironic postmodernist sensibility. Peter Abbs calls for education to become an end in itself, as opposed to the means to an end, and for a place to be found in contemporary education for the spiritual, the aesthetic and the ethi...

An English school text designed to provide students aged 14-18 with a practical "map" of the various forms of narrative used in English literature. The text progresses from basic exercises and discussions about narrative in our daily lives to descriptions and examples of the major narrative forms.

Alongside "Living Powers" and "A is for Aesthetic" this book is intended to establish a conceptual frame for the Arts in Education series. The first and primary aim of this symposium is to put teachers of all the arts in touch with some of the most recent and the best writing on the nature of art.

Keine Beschreibung.

Alongside "Living Powers" and "A is for Aesthetic" this book is intended to establish a conceptual frame for the Arts in Education series. The first and primary aim of this symposium is to put teachers of all the arts in touch with some of the most recent and the best writing on the nature of art.

A collection of literature anthologies and reference books for Key Stage 3 onwards.