Theorizing Transformative Education: An Exploration into Marcuse’s Aesthetic Dimension

Adrienne Pickett

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Theorizing Transformative Education: An Exploration into Marcuse’s Aesthetic Dimension

Author

- Adrienne Pickett
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Abstract

In this paper, I propose that the underlying quality of transformation is what Herbert Marcuse calls the aesthetic dimension. I use aesthetic language to understand better the nature of transformative education.

Keywords: transformative education, adult learning, aesthetics, philosophy

How to Cite: Pickett, A. (2016) “Theorizing Transformative Education: An Exploration into Marcuse’s Aesthetic Dimension”, Adult Education Research Conference. 1(2016).