Aesthetics

Often Aesthetics seems like a difficult topic to address. But after a classroom session discussing the many ways to address the topic it seems there are more ways then we might realize we could.

During the first portion of the class we watched a video where a man taught his class a lesson that was completely based off of aesthetics. The guy really stressed the ideas of aesthetic experiences. For instance putting the cream into coffee was an aesthetic experience to him as he described the details of what he was seeing in verbs and adjectives that really stressed why it was so pleasing for him. He then had the class write their own statement about an aesthetic experience. Aesthetics is something to be enjoyed and I think he really did get his class to understand that through his lesson.

Afterwards we were asked as a class to form groups and have a small group discussion on how we thought aesthetic could be addressed in certain age groups. My group was given the topic of elementary school students. We thought that this was a little more challenging then other age groups, as one is limited to what the student does know. So we thought that we might make a game out of it that allowed the student to decide what they thought was good art. Give them an opportunity to learn about beauty and art. It is a little more difficult to describe to them some of the bigger things that occur in aesthetics but it is a building ground so that you can eventually get to the point.