Why do I recommend this specific book to read?

There are many books that you can find if you want to read about the aesthetic ideas and scholars who pen them. I recommend that you start with Parson and Blocker’s book first, then find more complicated books. Aesthetics is about class discussion not finding answers. Your job in aesthetic education is to get students to talk about artworld issues. Art often does not give answers as much as it forces us to question our assumptions. I want students to contemplate and grow their perspective on art in various ways. It requires deliberate planning in your curriculum and will take years. But think of it like salt in your food. It just takes a little to make the food better. If you, throughout the years, slip in a short one class aesthetic lesson every once and while, it can grow students with deeper critical thinking skills, that will show up later in students who have more conceptually complex artistic work.