FOR A PEDAGOGY OF THE BEAUTIFUL: AESTHETIC, EDUCATION AND SENSITIVITIES

In this study we are interested in problematizing the Kantian argument about taste/judgment outside the object. Therefore, what is 'beautiful' is re-discussed and the proposition of a theoretical category called 'pedagogy of the beautiful' is rehearsed as a way of thinking about aesthetic education as a knowledge that happens from the consideration of sensitivities and subjectivities. We propose that, in the pedagogy of the beautiful, the work of art operates as an artifact, a mediating metaphor. Thus, this category measures the restructuring of the conscious that is based on the imaginary; articulates fundamental aspects about the sensibilities in enjoying existence and experiences; it allows the formation of aesthetic-ethical values through the sensitive contemplation of symbolic elements. The power of the pedagogy of the beautiful refers to the way in which knowledge can be raised from art. It demonstrates a path in which the act of knowing results from exchanges, affections and experience.