This descriptive study is an endeavor to bridge the gap between theory and practice by developing a plan for implementing an aesthetic education learning center in Charlotte, North Carolina. The proposed collaborative plan between The University of North Carolina at Charlotte and the Charlotte/Mecklenburg Schools will emphasize aesthetic education as a means for classroom teachers to become change agents in the improvement of the delivery of the arts in the schools. / Methodology for the plan was focused upon five component areas: theoretical bases, goals, needs assessment, objectives, and evaluation. Theoretical bases were drawn from the disciplines of aesthetics and sociology. / Aesthetics as a basis is discussed in terms of Kaelin's phenomenological aesthetics pertinent to teacher education (the development of learned perception, increased aesthetic perception and its abstractable significance, imagination, and emotional response), to which aspects of Broudy's theory of analysis of art forms are adapted. The arts disciplines form the bases for curriculum content. Discourse about the arts as a basis provides the means for talking and learning about the arts in terms of the Weitz's meta-theory and Phillip Smith's semiotic explications to develop talk about art forms and nature forms. / Sociological orientations are based in Kotler's five elements of social action theory and Bennis, Benne, and Chin's theory of planning and the application of knowledge to bring about changes in behavior. Guidelines are discussed in terms of aesthetic education and the CMAELC as they emerged from goals, needs assessment, objectives, and evaluation. / More research is needed which emphasizes collaborative, interactive programs for getting people to work together to solve problems; a means to effect changes in the delivery of the arts in the nation's schools. The CMAELC plan may be generalizable to other areas. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 47-05, Section: A, page: 1697. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1986.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_75802 |
| Contributors | HILL, ESTHER PAGE., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 283 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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