Aesthetic Realism & Our Lives--Ann Richards and Christopher Balchin

Links

Here are further links about how Aesthetic Realism sees the arts & sciences, urgent cultural and economic matters, ethics, and the life questions of every person:

Anthropologist and author Dr. Arnold Perey tells of his field research in New Guinea and the classes he teaches today--and much more--at Aesthetic Realism: A New Perspective for Anthropology

For teachers, parents, and others, here are links that will tell you more about the Aesthetic Realism Teaching Method:

Find out about lesson plans, articles about the Aesthetic Realism method and more
Eli Siegel on equality
The website of the late, great, history educator and consultant Lois Mason
Rosemary Plumstead, science teacher par excellence
Faculty descriptions of All For Education, who teach the biweekly workshop: Barbara Allen, Patricia Martone, Lois Mason, Arnold Perey, and Rosemary Plumstead
Ellen Reiss on education and economic justice
Donita Ellison, art teacher and Aesthetic Realism associate
Elementary school teacher Lori Colavito on how prejudice was opposed in young children as they learned mathematics
Science teacher Sally Ross describes in this article how prejudice in young people was opposed, so surprisingly, through a lesson on viruses
Leila Rosen, expert teacher of English
Article by science teacher and textile artist Benedicte Caneill about geology
Teaching the Miracle Worker by Ann Richards , published in The English Record, of the New York State English Council
Aesthetic Realism Can End Racism by Christopher Balchin
Alan Shapiro, Music Educator & Jazz Musician
Article by Barbara McClung about teaching the subject of topography to junior high school students in New York City
Helena Simon, elementary school teacher, writing about an object lesson for third-graders on the sunflower
UK education blog dedicated to Lois Mason
Education for Children's MInds! -- Not for Profit! by writer Alice Bernstein
Thrilling article on grammar by teacher and writer Avi Gvili
Learning Can Succeed -- and Racism Can End! (Includes a tribute to Eli Siegel by Congressman Elijah E Cummings)
Elementary school teacher and Aesthetic Realism associate Lauren Phillips on beloved children's story Charlotte's Web, by E. B. White
Article by award-winning educator and union official Jeffrey Williams on the opposites of freedom and order in softball, baseball star Sammy Sosa -- and how this method benefited and literally changed the special education students he taught
Strictly speaking, not on the teaching method itself, but it's so charming and deep on a children's book that's been loved for decades, that we had to include it -- artist and consultant Marcia Rackow on Wonder and Matter of Fact 'Meet' -- the Imagination of Beatrix Potter
Filmmaker Ken Kimmelman, whose work is invaluable to classroom educators
Class for young people at the Aesthetic Realism Foundation -- Learning to Like the World
Blogs: Aesthetic Realism Is True and Eli Siegel, American Poet and Educator

What makes a photograph beautiful? How can a photographer improve his or her work? What does the art of photography have to do with justice to people? Find out at Len Bernstein: Photographic Education Based on the Aesthetic Realism of Eli Siegel

Some of Eli Siegel's books, essays, lectures, and poems can be read at The Aesthetic Realism Online Library Also, see what critics have said about Aesthetic Realism and Eli Siegel.

At the Online Library you can read works that give new insight for educators such as Aesthetic Realism Asks Thirty-Five Questions about Mathematics, and What Is the Best Punctuation for the Self? There is The Child, a chapter from Self and World that will have every teacher and parent see young people with new depth -- and understand oneself more deeply at the same time.

Aesthetic Realism Associate Lynette Abel describes classes she attended taught by Eli Siegel, reports on classes conducted by Ellen Reiss, and reprints some of the newspaper articles she has written: Lynette Abel: Aesthetic Realism and Life

What interferes with our expression? Find out at Aesthetic Realism Encourages Self-Expression, the website of Miriam Mondlin

Read Ellen Reiss's critical observations about the poetry of Robert Burns (one of our favourite poets). She shows how relevant what Burns was writing about 200 years ago is to what is going on today. His poetry has the terrifically just way of seeing people that is needed by government leaders and every one of us.

Aesthetic Realism explains that in order to really respect any person, whether someone of another culture or your own husband or wife, is to see that person as representing nothing less than the world itself. How can we see a person that way? Look at Eli Siegel's Is Beauty the Making One of Opposites? Ask yourself, does this person have opposites? Do they have every one of these fifteen pairs? (And more besides?) Is he/she trying to make sense of how they have these opposites?

Injustice can certainly be based on race, but it can also be based simply on seeing another person's way of meeting the world as different from one's own, and therefore less valuable. And about this, a person can be monumentally wrong. A classic instance of this in literary history is taken up by Ellen Reiss in relation to the great poet John Keats. And she shows the immediate relevance of this mis-seeing to our own lives and time.

One of our favourite links is to syndicated columnist Alice Bernstein. Her writing against racism has Aesthetic Realism as its basis.

To see what Aesthetic Realism is--and what it is not--see the website devoted to accuracy, honesty, justice--the plain truth!: Countering the Lies.

This is one of my blogs: How Can Racism End?

And this is my blog based in England: Aesthetic Realism Is True.

http://cjbalchin.blogspot.com/

Devorah Tarrow & Jeffrey Carduner, Aesthetic Realism Consultants

Good Will, the Only Solution, by Rose Levy

Bennett Cooperman & Meryl Nietsch-Cooperman

Aesthetic Realism Is Education -- links

music & our lives -- blog of Michael Palmer, Aesthetic Realism Associate and writer

Teaching The Miracle Worker by Ann Richards

The Criterion for Confidence, a seminar paper by Dr. Jaime Torres that explains the subject of confidence--and how to have it!

Article on using the Aesthetic Realism Teaching Method to teach students in special education. Published in La Vida News, The Black Voice, by Jeffrey Williams. Includes thrilling discussion of the ethics and aesthetics of softball and baseball.

It is in Contempt that the Roots of Racism Lie--an article by Captain Allan Michael published in the Miami Times

Read what about what happens in Aesthetic Realism classes, from people who actually attend them and know firsthand--rather than falsehoods by someone who pretends to know.

See reviews of books by Eli Siegel.

Here are some other websites I strongly recommend: