Original scientific paper
The Importance and Possibilities of Esthetical Education Within the Pedagogical Process
Milan Mišković
Abstract
If the purpose of education is to help the young to grow to be cultured individuals, indeed, autonomous and balanced personalities, able to show essentially human abilities in society, then the role of esthetical education and culture should become more important in the pedagagical process than it has been so far. From the context of Pavao Vuk-Pavlović's esthetics, the paper presents the importance and possibilities of esthetical experience and art for culture as well as for the individual and social life; the paper also points at the importance and possibilities of esthetical education and culture and at the ways of their realization in the pedagogical process. The significance and possibilities of esthetical education result from: 1. The axiological wideness and comprehensive content of the esthetical domain in which all the non-esthetical values of the natural, historical and cultural life can be presented, thus making possible the knowledge about man's specific social, national and universal life, worlds and destinies, acquired through artistic experience, in order that a sound foundation for a full and meaningful life may be provided; 2. The character of esthetical experience, ac~ insight where intellect is a part of all possibilities and emotion of all manifestations, so that esthetical-artistic experience requires and develops a complete person; 3. The characteristic quality of esthetical view point that, through co-animated identification, gives »knowledge and raised consciousness, which profoundly influences human nature and reveals the essence of existence« (Vuk-Pavlović) yet at the same time as a non-practical, theoretical standpoint, it does not aim at a (violent) Change of the world; it reaches its »beauty« and truth (falsehood) by experience and perception; 4. The manifold effects of art on directing the (mental) life of the individual, the group (the generation) and entire society and culture; 5. The esthetical principles: wholeness, completeness, integrality, perfection, accomplishment and concretized mentality.
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81976
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Publication date:
5.12.1994.
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