Includes bibliographical references.

Preliminary Material / Tracie Costantino and Boyd White -- Introduction / Boyd White and Tracie Costantino -- A Beauty Contest(ed) / Boyd White -- Between Aisthetics and Aesthetics / jan jagodzinski -- Positive Responses of Adult Visitors to Art in a Museum Context / Anne-Marie Émond -- The Critical Relevance of Aesthetic Experience for Twenty-First Century Art Education: The Role of Wonder / Tracie Costantino -- Aesthetics as a Curriculum of Care and Responsible Choice / Richard Siegesmund -- Aesthetic Inquiry / Margaret Macintyre Latta and Stephanie Baer -- Lev Vygotsky’s Theory of Aesthetic Experience / João pedro Fróis -- Aesthetics, Conversations, and Social Change / Terry Barrett -- Aesthetics on the Run: The Public Sphere, Public Art, and Art Education / Richard Lachapelle -- Free Spirit or CopyCat? / Lars Lindström -- The Power to Transform / P. Bruce Uhrmacher , Bradley Conrad and Caitlin Lindquist -- Young People and Aesthetic Experiences: Learning with Contemporary Art / Helene Illeris.

Essays on Aesthetic Education for the 21st Century , co-edited by Tracie Costantino and Boyd White, brings together an international collection of authors representing diverse viewpoints to engage in dialogue about the ongoing critical relevance of aesthetics for contemporary art education. Inspired by a conference symposium in which the four authors in the first section of the text, titled Initiating a Dialogue, explore a range of concepts including aesthetic experience, beauty, wonder, and aisthetics, this book enlarges the dialogue with eight additional chapters by authors from North America and Europe. In addition to chapters that address issues of social awareness, curriculum theory and research, and applications to practice with pre-service teachers, there are several chapters that acknowledge historical influences on current notions of aesthetics as a basis on which to open the gate into the twenty-first century. This book will be a valuable resource for graduate students in art education and curriculum studies, as well as practicing art educators, pre-service teachers, and anyone interested in the significance of aesthetics, not only in contemporary art education but the wider field of general education as well.