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The Cognitive Dimension of Art: Aesthetic and Educational Value
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a) can art be a means of knowledge and if it does, is knowledge obtained through art of the same kind with scientific knowledge? and b)if we accept that art actually offers some kind of knowledge, is this knowledge relevant to its aesthetic value, does it constitute an essential part of its functioning as art? The paper discusses the plausibility and consistency of the answers given to these questions either from the cognitivist or the anti-cognitivist point of view and argues that the importance and role attributed to art within the educational praxis, as well as its educational value per se, significantly depends on the kind of approach we adopt in regard to these questions
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This page is a summary of: The Cognitive Dimension of Art: Aesthetic and Educational Value, The International Journal of Learning Annual Review, January 2011, Common Ground Publishing,
DOI: 10.18848/1447-9494/cgp/v18i01/47413.
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