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The Aesthetic Realism Educational Method

Teachers have described in professional journals and in newspapers across the continent how the Aesthetic Realism Teaching Method has enabled students, from kindergarten through high school, to learn with striking success—for decades.

Articles & Lessons

English Language Arts

Leila Rosen, high school teacher

  • Through Aesthetic Realism Interest Wins, Cynicism Loses

Monique Michael, elementary school teacher

  • Bringing out a Child’s True Intelligence: Reading The Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister
  • Separation and Junction; or, How Letters Become New Words

Helena Simon, elementary school teacher

  • The Aesthetic Realism Teaching Method Is the Solution to the Crisis in Education—Teachers Tell Why!

Science Education

Rosemary Plumstead, high school teacher

  • The Success of the Aesthetic Realism Teaching Method
  • Through the Aesthetic Realism Teaching Method Knowledge Opposes Anger—& Students Learn!

Christopher Balchin, high school teacher

  • Teaching through Aesthetic Realism

Arithmetic / Mathematics

Zvia Ratz, middle school teacher

  • Knowing, Not Bullying (on Solving Algebraic Equations)

Physical Education [& Special Education]

Jeffrey Williams, junior high school teacher

  • The Aesthetic Realism Teaching Method Is the Solution to the Crisis in Education!

Social Studies

Lois Mason, high school teacher

  • On the meaning of Andrew Jackson
  • On the Boston Tea Party and more
  • On the Muckrakers

Justice and Beauty in Education

Anthony Romeo & Karen Van Outryve

  • What Kind of Education Do Our Children Deserve?

Patricia Martone, instructor of the bi-weekly workshop for teachers

  • The Aesthetic Realism Teaching Method

Vincent DiPietro

  • Teaching Seminar a Proven Success

 

Resources on Education/Teaching Method

Lectures by Eli Siegel, founder of Aesthetic Realism:

    • Aesthetic Realism and Learning
    • Children as Selves
    • Education and Feeling Good
    • Mind and Schools

 

Ellen Reiss, Aesthetic Realism Chairman of Education, commentaries:

  • “Education & What Every Child Deserves”
  • “What Education Is For”
  • “The Right of Every Child”
  • Biographical Information

Arnold Perey, Ph.D. Anthropologist, Writes on Education:

  • “Teaching Indian Culture in the U.S.”
  • “The Aesthetic Realism of Eli Siegel As a Teaching Method in Anthropology”
  • “What Are Children’s Minds Waiting For?” (About the Inuit and people young and old everywhere)

Leila Rosen, English Teacher, Aesthetic Realism Associate:

  • “The Success of the Aesthetic Realism Teaching Method: Liking the World vs. Contempt”

Alan Shapiro, Aesthetic Realism Associate, Jazz Pianist, Music Educator:

  • Aesthetic Realism and Music Education: “Difficulty and Ease in Wagner’s Liebestod”

Barbara Allen, Aesthetic Realism Consultant and Flutist:

  • “The Beginnings of Music: The Opposites in the Flute”

Marcia Rackow, Artist, Aesthetic Realism Consultant:

  • “Aesthetic Realism and Beatrix Potter’s ‘Peter Rabbit’”

Lynette Abel, writer:

  • “John Singer Sargent’s Madame X: or, Assertion and Retreat in Woman”

Len Bernstein, photographer:

  • Photographic Education through Aesthetic Realism

More Resources about Aesthetic Realism:

  • The Terrain Gallery
  • Maryland Governor’s Proclamation
  • Baltimore Mayor’s Proclamation
  • Aesthetic Realism Books, including online chapters
  • Aesthetic Realism Foundation Faculty

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