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Book Review The Necessity of Aesthetic Education: The Place of the Arts on the Curriculum by Laura D’Olimpio (2024)

Hastangka & Bewnny Widaryanto

Book Review: The Necessity of Aesthetic Education: The Place of the Arts on the Curriculum by Laura D’Olimpio (2024). The Necessity of Aesthetic Education: The Place of the Arts on the Curriculum by Laura D’Olimpio (2024). London: Bloomsbury Academic. 176 pp. ISBN: 9781350120907 (Hardback). $115.00. Hastangka & Benny Widaryanto Research Center for Education National Research […]

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Hastangka, Widaryanto, B. (2025). Book Review: The Necessity of Aesthetic Education: The Place of the Arts on the Curriculum by Laura D’Olimpio (2024). ACCESS: Contemporary Issues in Education, 45. https://doi.org/10.46786/ac25.3022
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Educating for Aesthetic Experiences

Laura D’Olimpio

Laura D’Olimpio shares an excerpt from her new book The Necessity of Aesthetic Education: The Place of the Arts on the Curriculum (Bloomsbury, 2024). Educating for aesthetic experiences An aesthetic experience arises from engaging in a particular way – a way that is open and receptive to what is there to be experienced – with […]

Laura D’Olimpio

Dr Laura D’Olimpio is Associate Professor of Philosophy of Education at the University of Birmingham. Laura completed her PhD ‘The Moral Possibilities of Mass Art’ at The University of Western Australia. She is co-founder and co-editor of the open access Journal of Philosophy in Schools. She is also a regular contributor to The Conversation, Philosophy Now magazine, The Ethics Centre, and ABC Radio National’s Philosopher’s Zone and The Minefield. Laura’s first book, Media and Moral Education: A Philosophy of Critical Engagement (Routledge, 2018) won the 2018 PESA (Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia) Annual Book Award.