I have been thinking alot about how art functions within the human expereince, especially in how we seek life-meaning... those existential ways of being that inform our approach and energy towards relationships between ourselves and others. It seems that leading students into such questions requires a journey of self-inquiry.. I find that Beittle's work on the qualitative immediate present.... consciousness within the art experience.... is a strong starting place. This is closely related to Heiddeger's work on Being; Being interpreted as one's qualitative awareness of time and space, as it ethically relates to community. If students recognize their own consciousness, their own interior sense of being as it informs patterns, symbols, story, meaning, values....they can recognize how choices they make are creative becomings (like Heidegger's interpretation of Neitzsche's will to power as art) and responsibilities to the world as humans and educators...
I wonder how many art education programs have a foundational level course which touches upon these questions, or may use ideas around narrative, jungian symbolism, embodied/healing aspects of artistic expereince, life as an ecology... It seems like these issues pose important aspects of the re-writing of art education philosophy .
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