BEAUTY, ART, EDUCATION
Pekka Ihanainen
People/
learners
School(s)
(national curricula)
Working life
linked with enterprises
Creativity
Innovation
technology
Innovation pedagogy:
learning by experimenting
at schools and authentic

development projects
Creativity pedagogy:
learning by doing empowered 

by art/artistic stimuli at schools

and hobbies
(Phenomenon based learning)
BEAUTY, ART, EDUCATION
Pekka Ihanainen
WHAT IS BEAUTY?
BEAUTY, ART, EDUCATION
Pekka Ihanainen
just exists
experience
set of features
value/valuation
what is beauty?
BEAUTY, ART, EDUCATION
Pekka Ihanainen
Beauty in Finland

(aesthetic mindset of Finns)
Beauty in Finland

(aesthetic mindset of Finns)
BEAUTY, ART, EDUCATION
Pekka Ihanainen
the Sauna
- design
- art
- people
Sauna, design
BEAUTY, ART, EDUCATION
Pekka Ihanainen
BEAUTY, ART, EDUCATION
Pekka Ihanainen
Sauna, art
BEAUTY, ART, EDUCATION
Pekka Ihanainen
Sauna, people
Sauna as an experience (beauty) :
* personal relaxation
* positively enlivened
* freedom, equality, opening
* purity, innocence
Beauty in Finland

(aesthetic mindset of Finns)
BEAUTY, ART, EDUCATION
Pekka Ihanainen
the Forest (together with a lake and bog)
-”home”, connection/”linked with …”
- nourishment of mind and soul
- fresh (air)
- closeness via distance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoUBZ43M2WY
a uniquely Finnish quality:
* a certain feature or value considered
by Finns to be typically Finnish
* ”If you want to get something finished,
hire a Finn.”
- endurance, resilience, tenacity,
determination, perseverance, grit
- continuity, stretchability
BEAUTY, ART, EDUCATION
Pekka Ihanainen
Beauty in Finland

(aesthetic mindset of Finns)
Sisu
BEAUTY, ART, EDUCATION
Pekka Ihanainen
ART, EDUCATION
Fine arts, Music etc.
+ DIY art
Personalisation
Space to find oneself
Practicing (drilling)
BEAUTY, ART, EDUCATION
Pekka Ihanainen
1. Preschool, primary and secondary schools
- curricular education - permeable, visual art, music, handicraft
2. Hobby activities
- clubs, associations, community colleges
3. Basic education of art (organised by municipalities)
- have to apply and have the admission by the organiser)
- participation fees
- for kids, teens and adults
- visual arts, music, architecture, handicraft, circus art, drama, writing,
dance, video and cinema.
4. Vocational and higher education
- graduates to professions
- arts and crafts schools, communication schools, conservatories and fine
art departments in universities of applied sciences), Arts, crafts and design
school (Aalto University), Uniarts Helsinki (Academy of Fin Arts, Sibelius
Academy, Theatre Academy)
BEAUTY, ART, EDUCATION
Pekka Ihanainen
Aesthetic literacy as a key element in multi-literacy - art education
and phenomenon based learning
Aesthetic literacy?
Multi-literacy?
guess what!
Define phenomenon - 如何确定(学习)主题
Describe learning outcomes- 学习结果描述
Meet in practice - 实践中了解
Subjects´role - 学科的⾓⾊
See connections - 找出关联
Explicate problems - 阐明问题
Generate projects - 确定项⽬
List concrete activities - 列出具体活动
Check available facilities - 找到可⽤设备/资源
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Phenomenon based learning - 主题学习
Pekka Ihanainen
BEAUTY, ART, EDUCATION
Pekka Ihanainen
Multi-literacy (ML): use and production of
multiple resources, critical thinking,
awareness of algorithms
Aesthetic literacy (EL): understanding
and knowhow to perceive and act via
beauty
Pekka Ihanainen
IhaNova/EICP
pekka.v.ihanainen@ihanova.fi
+358400540868
Learning in the open, mobile learning and aesthetic literacy
开放式学习,移动学习和美学素养
Aesthetic literacy - 美学素养
Can be seen as a necessary element of
multi-literacy.
可以被认为是多种素养中必不不可少的元素
- textual, linguistic - ⽂文字,语⾔言
- visual - 视觉
- aural - 听觉
- kinesthetic - 动觉
- haptic - 触觉
- olfactory - 嗅觉
- gustatory - 味觉
- multi-channelled perception and meaning making
通过多种途径得出看法和意义
- multimedia production
多媒体制作
- criticality
临界
- ability to interconnect physical-digital-social
互连物理理数字社会的能⼒力力
- national, cultural, social, domain-specific contexts
国家、⽂文化、社会、特定领域情景
BEAUTY, ART, EDUCATION
Pekka Ihanainen
EL
ML
To realise, meet and work with problems/events inside
projects/participation
To assess existing and create new
Encounters with the 21st century world Phenomenon based learning
(teaching)/method
BEAUTY, ART, EDUCATION
Pekka Ihanainen
EL
Beauty in nature
(features)
Beauty in art
(value)
Beauty in everyday
(experience)
- historical progress, and
- intertwined to each other
BEAUTY, ART, EDUCATION
Pekka Ihanainen
Aesthetic literacy (as a method inside phenomenon based learning)
an exercise
Look towards the sculpture (to the present)- what do you see?
Look backwards the sculpture (to the past) - what do you see?
Look onwards the sculpture (to the future)- what do you see?
Look by the sculpture (seen in the margin, and the gaze focused on something else) -
what do you see?
in small groups
Decide one topic (what ever) you are willing to examine and understand better and
more.
BEAUTY, ART, EDUCATION
Pekka Ihanainen
Keep it active and alive in the background of your mind.
Remember that you are always emotionally oriented and ready to re-orient yourself as well
• can you recognise your emotional state at the moment?
• be aware of it, but try to move it aside, and open your soul/mind emotionally to receive
feelings present in the surrounding space, objects and other people.
Walk around the sculpture, touch it etc. - use your bodily movement to encounter it.
Actively think over (while keeping your mind oriented and feelings open, and using
your body) your topic you chose in the first phase of the exercise.
Try to realise new details or more holistic understanding about the topic.
BEAUTY, ART, EDUCATION
Pekka Ihanainen
Defining Aesthetic
Literacy …
BEAUTY
美⼥女女
Pekka Ihanainen
Learning in the open, mobile learning and aesthetic literacy
开放式学习,移动学习和美学素养
Aesthetic literacy - 美学素养
Trust in beauty (and learning)
对美(和学习)的信任
Collage, the way beauty (and learning) is arranged
整合是美(和学习)产⽣生的⽅方式
Discussion, expressed
beauty (and learning)
讨论、展示对美和学习的看法)
Perceptual sensitivity
(perception) - 感知灵敏敏度
(知觉)
Behavioral rhetorics
(activity) - 准备动作
ALIGNMENT - 共情
ATTUNEMENT - 移情
Pekka Ihanainen
Learning in the open, mobile learning and aesthetic literacy
开放式学习,移动学习和美学素养
Aesthetic literacy - 美学素养
-> means perceptual sensitivity - 意味着感知灵敏敏度
- perceive towards - 感知当前
- perceive backwards - 对过去的感知
- perceive onwards - 对未来的感知
- perceive by - 通过···感知
ALIGNMENT -> is joining to the being perceived
共情 -> 情感上融⼊入要被感知的事物。
Pekka Ihanainen
Learning in the open, mobile learning and aesthetic literacy
开放式学习,移动学习和美学素养
Aesthetic literacy - 美学素养
ATTUNEMENT -> is related to activities oriented to the environment
移情 -> 与⾯面向环境的活动有关
-> means behavioral rhetorics - 指⾏行行为修辞
- anticipatory emptiness - 放空⼼心灵
- emotional openness - 情感的开放性
- bodily vigilance - 身体警惕
Pekka Ihanainen
Learning in the open, mobile learning and aesthetic literacy
开放式学习,移动学习和美学素养
Aesthetic literacy - 美学素养
Becomes understandable for instance
能够理理解,例例如
* in free play of children - 孩⼦子们的⾃自由发挥
* in handicraft - ⼿手⼯工业
* in DIY art - DIY创作
* in professional art - 在专业的艺术
but belongs to everyone´s everyday - 但它存在于⼤大家的⽇日常⽣生活中
BEAUTY, ART, EDUCATION
Pekka Ihanainen
Aesthetic literacy
is (should be) everyday ability to openly find out, live and solve problems, events,
phenomena
- using multi-channels of perception, thinking and intuition (emotion)
and making of living and digital multi-media
enjoyment and making of art develops EL, but in EL it is not the question of art
education
EL as an ability and a broader competence is primarily based on
sensitising of everyday experiencing
BEAUTY, ART, EDUCATION
Pekka Ihanainen
Take a walk, and snap photos, audios,
videos (your choice) from the
surrounding via which ”the Finnish
beauty” comes into sight. Share them in
your WeChat group (or in Moments/
WeChat) with short explaining/describing
text (or voice message).
BEAUTY, ART, EDUCATION
Pekka Ihanainen
Do we need art education
or abilities to art up the
everyday?

Aesthetic art etc.

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    BEAUTY, ART, EDUCATION Pekka Ihanainen People/ learners School(s) (national curricula) Workinglife linked with enterprises Creativity Innovation technology Innovation pedagogy: learning by experimenting at schools and authentic development projects Creativity pedagogy: learning by doing empowered by art/artistic stimuli at schools and hobbies (Phenomenon based learning)
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    BEAUTY, ART, EDUCATION Pekka Ihanainen Beauty inFinland (aesthetic mindset of Finns)
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    Beauty in Finland (aestheticmindset of Finns) BEAUTY, ART, EDUCATION Pekka Ihanainen the Sauna - design - art - people
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    BEAUTY, ART, EDUCATION Pekka Ihanainen Sauna, people Saunaas an experience (beauty) : * personal relaxation * positively enlivened * freedom, equality, opening * purity, innocence
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    Beauty in Finland (aestheticmindset of Finns) BEAUTY, ART, EDUCATION Pekka Ihanainen the Forest (together with a lake and bog) -”home”, connection/”linked with …” - nourishment of mind and soul - fresh (air) - closeness via distance https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoUBZ43M2WY
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    a uniquely Finnishquality: * a certain feature or value considered by Finns to be typically Finnish * ”If you want to get something finished, hire a Finn.” - endurance, resilience, tenacity, determination, perseverance, grit - continuity, stretchability BEAUTY, ART, EDUCATION Pekka Ihanainen Beauty in Finland (aesthetic mindset of Finns) Sisu
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    BEAUTY, ART, EDUCATION Pekka Ihanainen ART, EDUCATION Fine arts,Music etc. + DIY art Personalisation Space to find oneself Practicing (drilling)
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    BEAUTY, ART, EDUCATION Pekka Ihanainen 1. Preschool,primary and secondary schools - curricular education - permeable, visual art, music, handicraft 2. Hobby activities - clubs, associations, community colleges 3. Basic education of art (organised by municipalities) - have to apply and have the admission by the organiser) - participation fees - for kids, teens and adults - visual arts, music, architecture, handicraft, circus art, drama, writing, dance, video and cinema. 4. Vocational and higher education - graduates to professions - arts and crafts schools, communication schools, conservatories and fine art departments in universities of applied sciences), Arts, crafts and design school (Aalto University), Uniarts Helsinki (Academy of Fin Arts, Sibelius Academy, Theatre Academy)
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    BEAUTY, ART, EDUCATION Pekka Ihanainen Aesthetic literacyas a key element in multi-literacy - art education and phenomenon based learning Aesthetic literacy? Multi-literacy? guess what!
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    Define phenomenon -如何确定(学习)主题 Describe learning outcomes- 学习结果描述 Meet in practice - 实践中了解 Subjects´role - 学科的⾓⾊ See connections - 找出关联 Explicate problems - 阐明问题 Generate projects - 确定项⽬ List concrete activities - 列出具体活动 Check available facilities - 找到可⽤设备/资源 P L A N N I N G S E Q U E N C E A P P R O X I M A T E Phenomenon based learning - 主题学习 Pekka Ihanainen
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    BEAUTY, ART, EDUCATION Pekka Ihanainen Multi-literacy (ML):use and production of multiple resources, critical thinking, awareness of algorithms Aesthetic literacy (EL): understanding and knowhow to perceive and act via beauty
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    Pekka Ihanainen IhaNova/EICP pekka.v.ihanainen@ihanova.fi +358400540868 Learning inthe open, mobile learning and aesthetic literacy 开放式学习,移动学习和美学素养 Aesthetic literacy - 美学素养 Can be seen as a necessary element of multi-literacy. 可以被认为是多种素养中必不不可少的元素 - textual, linguistic - ⽂文字,语⾔言 - visual - 视觉 - aural - 听觉 - kinesthetic - 动觉 - haptic - 触觉 - olfactory - 嗅觉 - gustatory - 味觉 - multi-channelled perception and meaning making 通过多种途径得出看法和意义 - multimedia production 多媒体制作 - criticality 临界 - ability to interconnect physical-digital-social 互连物理理数字社会的能⼒力力 - national, cultural, social, domain-specific contexts 国家、⽂文化、社会、特定领域情景
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    BEAUTY, ART, EDUCATION Pekka Ihanainen EL ML To realise,meet and work with problems/events inside projects/participation To assess existing and create new Encounters with the 21st century world Phenomenon based learning (teaching)/method
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    BEAUTY, ART, EDUCATION Pekka Ihanainen EL Beauty innature (features) Beauty in art (value) Beauty in everyday (experience) - historical progress, and - intertwined to each other
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    BEAUTY, ART, EDUCATION Pekka Ihanainen Aesthetic literacy(as a method inside phenomenon based learning) an exercise Look towards the sculpture (to the present)- what do you see? Look backwards the sculpture (to the past) - what do you see? Look onwards the sculpture (to the future)- what do you see? Look by the sculpture (seen in the margin, and the gaze focused on something else) - what do you see?
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    in small groups Decideone topic (what ever) you are willing to examine and understand better and more. BEAUTY, ART, EDUCATION Pekka Ihanainen Keep it active and alive in the background of your mind. Remember that you are always emotionally oriented and ready to re-orient yourself as well • can you recognise your emotional state at the moment? • be aware of it, but try to move it aside, and open your soul/mind emotionally to receive feelings present in the surrounding space, objects and other people. Walk around the sculpture, touch it etc. - use your bodily movement to encounter it. Actively think over (while keeping your mind oriented and feelings open, and using your body) your topic you chose in the first phase of the exercise. Try to realise new details or more holistic understanding about the topic.
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    BEAUTY 美⼥女女 Pekka Ihanainen Learning inthe open, mobile learning and aesthetic literacy 开放式学习,移动学习和美学素养 Aesthetic literacy - 美学素养 Trust in beauty (and learning) 对美(和学习)的信任 Collage, the way beauty (and learning) is arranged 整合是美(和学习)产⽣生的⽅方式 Discussion, expressed beauty (and learning) 讨论、展示对美和学习的看法) Perceptual sensitivity (perception) - 感知灵敏敏度 (知觉) Behavioral rhetorics (activity) - 准备动作 ALIGNMENT - 共情 ATTUNEMENT - 移情
  • 23.
    Pekka Ihanainen Learning inthe open, mobile learning and aesthetic literacy 开放式学习,移动学习和美学素养 Aesthetic literacy - 美学素养 -> means perceptual sensitivity - 意味着感知灵敏敏度 - perceive towards - 感知当前 - perceive backwards - 对过去的感知 - perceive onwards - 对未来的感知 - perceive by - 通过···感知 ALIGNMENT -> is joining to the being perceived 共情 -> 情感上融⼊入要被感知的事物。
  • 24.
    Pekka Ihanainen Learning inthe open, mobile learning and aesthetic literacy 开放式学习,移动学习和美学素养 Aesthetic literacy - 美学素养 ATTUNEMENT -> is related to activities oriented to the environment 移情 -> 与⾯面向环境的活动有关 -> means behavioral rhetorics - 指⾏行行为修辞 - anticipatory emptiness - 放空⼼心灵 - emotional openness - 情感的开放性 - bodily vigilance - 身体警惕
  • 25.
    Pekka Ihanainen Learning inthe open, mobile learning and aesthetic literacy 开放式学习,移动学习和美学素养 Aesthetic literacy - 美学素养 Becomes understandable for instance 能够理理解,例例如 * in free play of children - 孩⼦子们的⾃自由发挥 * in handicraft - ⼿手⼯工业 * in DIY art - DIY创作 * in professional art - 在专业的艺术 but belongs to everyone´s everyday - 但它存在于⼤大家的⽇日常⽣生活中
  • 26.
    BEAUTY, ART, EDUCATION Pekka Ihanainen Aesthetic literacy is(should be) everyday ability to openly find out, live and solve problems, events, phenomena - using multi-channels of perception, thinking and intuition (emotion) and making of living and digital multi-media enjoyment and making of art develops EL, but in EL it is not the question of art education EL as an ability and a broader competence is primarily based on sensitising of everyday experiencing
  • 27.
    BEAUTY, ART, EDUCATION Pekka Ihanainen Take awalk, and snap photos, audios, videos (your choice) from the surrounding via which ”the Finnish beauty” comes into sight. Share them in your WeChat group (or in Moments/ WeChat) with short explaining/describing text (or voice message).
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    BEAUTY, ART, EDUCATION Pekka Ihanainen Do weneed art education or abilities to art up the everyday?