Art and Education: Optical and Conceptual Structures

The aesthetic experience is mainly activating the reflective ability and imagination, decodes, reinterprets, restates, reprocesses and strengthens meanings, so it is an extremely importantsubject to be under research study, particularly important for cognitive development, documented by theoretical approaches and research in the Education area. The art exposure is fuctioning as a cultivating field for our way of thinking. The rupture depth, whichis introducedby the works of art on social conventions, alienating norms, stereotypical assumptions, creates a syllogism core which decisively contributes to cultivating creative criticism, liberalizing creativity, forming consciousness within institutional and personal conditions in the field of education. Dialectically, critically and versatile issues are considered, aiming at shaping thought on issues relating to culture, but also in relation to political, social, economic changes and circumstances. Attempts to analyze a process through which belief systems, desires, consumption of some style or ways of thinking, which promotes values, ideas, will not beeasily accepted without seeking information, causes and detailed findings with clarity, accuracy, appropriateness, consistency, rationality, impartiality and deepness.

Course Participants are expected to:

• understand that culture is a presumption of cognitive structure
• explore the deeper meaning, since critical thinking is not limited to obtaining declarative, proce-dural knowledge, but in action (thinking and analysis)
• understand visual, conceptual, textual structures
• distinguish "formations loaded with perceptual content", interpretation issues, meaning framing
• Be aware of basic socio-ideological and educational considerations that influence the concept of quality education, the formation of a quality culture

1st Week
Perceptual and aesthetic content: Cognitive development and research (eclecticism, axiom of multiplicity - aesthetic object - technical product)

2nd Week
Artistic form - scientific techniques - recreational practices - (recreational practices of the teen communities)

3rd Week
Conceptual researchon the aesthetic dimension of different cultures and societies

4th Week
Values in relation to correlations, comparisons, proportions -Is The role of art co-ordinating or coincidental?

5th Week
Past-Future Interface (manipulative mode, specific arguments, interpolateexcerpts, revivals, styles, trends or integrated mentalities)

6th Week
Partial and fragmentarySemiology or obsessive with the principle of reality

7th Week
Convergence of art and ontology - Embracing of symbolism processes

8th Week
Revocation and affirmation of object subject relationship in aesthetic experience - New Aesthetic

9th Week
Conversion of art, technique, imagination, logic, scientific, poetic thinking, aesthetic ethos, a particular ethical and political dimension that ιmposes the necessity of the sensual power of the beautiful and therefore of the liberation of man's creative instincts and impulses.

10th Week
Art and technology: Possibilities of form and matter - extended sensation

11th Week
Variations: theatrical, cinematographic, musical language etc.

12th Week
Media / Form, Style, Patterns, the necessity of selectivity - Participative Artwork

13th Week
Cognitive Games - Arts in Schools

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