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aesthetic theory  

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  • Aesthetic theory in curriculum studies brings a world that is interesting, surprising, frightening, or beautiful together with students who meet that world through sensation, thought, and emotion. The world does not come to us hermetically contained in rational categories. [Source: Encyclopedia of Curriculum Studies; Aesthetic Theory]

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