Shaking Them Up: Aesthetics in Social Foundations of Education

'How are we going to shake them up?' This is the question Maxine asked me as she and I planned a summer course for K-12 teachers as part of Summer Session 2007 at the Lincoln Center Institute for the Arts in Education. It's a variation on the questions that permeate all of my conversations with Maxine: How can we understand another's experience? How do we move out of complacency? How do we enact and live transformations? How do we move away from prefabricated images and meanings to joyously birthing our own selves through our interactions with art and ideas? How do we shake ourselves up?