Letting Dance Teach. (Kin)Aesthetics and Ethics, Agency and Responsiveness: The Subject Dancing and Becoming in a World-Centered Education

• In Event: Fairmont Roundtable Session Twelve
  In Roundtable Session: Embodiment and Becoming Through Arts-Based Ways of Knowing (Table 4)

Abstract

Presenting a line of thinking the arts 'as' education, viewing education and dance as efforts to dialogue with the world, probing dance as (kin)aesthetic experiencing and ethical relationships shaping through agency and vulnerability, urging the meaning and truth searching Self to become by subjecting to what a challenged world is asking for. A shift is advocated from the autonomous, self-expressing Self to the necessity of being with others, from predefined truth to the unpredictable, from conscious knowledge construction to pre-cognitive permeability through the senses, from universal ideas of humanism to an education for the unique human subject becoming, from competition to coexistence in a precarious world calling upon us to act together for democracy’s, mankind’s and the planet’s survival.

Author

• Paul Edward Moerman, University of Jyväskylä
  Presenting Author