Reflections on the aesthetic experience in education

Abstract

This article deals with the interweaving of some interfaces among the theories from Dewey and Merleau-Ponty to point out possible developments and contributions to the organization of teaching practices that worry about children’s aesthetic education. The theme of aesthetic experience has become recurrent in contemporary productions on education, Arts/Education and childhood education. In order to address the meanings from aesthetic experiences, we choose authors such as Dewey and Merleau-Ponty , because these authors had studied the concept of aesthetic experience, considering the relationships that the subject establishes in significant contact in and with the world around him. Thus, in this text, we try to show the aesthetic dimension as part of living experience that occurs in the encounter between the subject and the world as a meaningful contribution to teaching practices, emphasizing the aesthetic education from children.