Considering Deweyan Cultural Naturalism as a Philosophy of Art(s) Education

Lauri Väkevä is a professor of didactics of crafts and arts at the University of Helsinki, Finland. A co-author of three books, he has also published several chapters and numerous articles in peer-reviewed journals and presented papers at international conferences in music education, musicology, music history, and popular music studies.His main research interests cover pedagogy of the crafts and arts, music education, educational philosophy, philosophy of art, pragmatism, informal learning, popular music, and digital culture. Aside from academic career, his work assignments have covered working as a musician, a music journalist, a general music teacher, and an instrumental teacher.

• Art(s) and late modernity.- Locating cultural naturalism.- Cultural naturalist aesthetics, philosophy of art, and art(s) education.- Post-philosophical approaches to (the) art(s).- Art(s) education philosophy for the late modernity.