ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on how scholars have explained the concepts of aesthetic attitude, aesthetic sensibility and aesthetic perception. By focusing on the work of artist Leo Saul Berk, the author also considers how artists have given material form to several of these ideas in the manner in which they approach and make work. This inquiry is undertaken to better understand how one might intentionally employ aesthetic modes of seeing and meaning makings when studying schooling practices and experiences of being educated. An aesthetic attitude can be performed in situations in which one finds oneself. It can be discerned in the objects, utterances, and behaviours of others. An aesthetic attitude can shape how one interacts with another and how one reads, evaluates and makes sense of the nature and qualities of one's relations with the other. Henri Fouquet's definition acknowledges two components of sensibility, one perceptive and one active.
