Aesthetic Experience in Science Education: Learning and Meaning-Making as Situated Talk and Action

This book examines the role of aesthetic experience in learning science and in science education from the perspective of knowledge as action and language use. The theoretical underpinnings are based on the writings of John Dewey and Ludwig Wittgenstein. In their spirit aesthetics is examined as it appears in the lives of people and how it relates to the activities in which they are involved.

Centered around an empirical analysis of how students and their teachers use aesthetic language and a...