Aesthetic Flow Experience in the Teaching of Preservice Language Arts Teachers

interview study with 19 preservice teachers who were enrolled in a teacher apprenticeship program at a major southeastern U.S. university uses Dewey's (1938/1988) concept of an experience and Csikszentmihalyi's (1990) concept of flow to investigate how these preservice teachers identify and describe aesthetic flow experiences both inside and outside school settings. As two instructors of preservice English education majors, we suggest that...