Reimagining Schools The Selected Works of Elliot W. Eisner [Paperback]

Elliot Eisner has spent the last forty years researching, thinking and writing about some of the enduring issues in arts education, curriculum studies and qualitative research. He has compiled a career-long collection of his finest work including extracts from books, key articles, salient research findings and major theoretical contributions and brought them together in a single volume. Starting with a specially written introduction, which gives an overview of Eisners career and contextualises his selection, the chapters cover a wide range of issues including:

* children and art
* the use of educational connoisseurship
* aesthetic modes of knowing
* absolutism and relativism in curriculum theory
* education reform and the ecology of schooling
* the future of education research.

 

Introduction: My Journey as a Writer in the Field of Education  1. Children's Creativity in Art: A Study of Types  2. Educational Objectives: Help or Hindrance  3. Instructional and Expressive Educational Objectives: Their Formulation and Use in Curriculum  4. Educational Connoisseurship and Educational Criticism: Their Forms and Functions in Educational Evaluation  5. On the Use of Education Connoisseurship and Educational Criticism for Evaluating Classroom Life  6. What do Children Learn When They Paint  7. On the Differences Between Artistic and Scientific Approaches to Qualitative Research  8. The Role of the Arts in Cognition and Curriculum  9. Can Educational Research Inform Educational Practice?  10. Aesthetic Modes of Knowing  11. The Celebration of Thinking  12. The Primacy of Experience and the Politics of Method  13. Slippery Moves and Blind Alleys: My Travels with Absolutism and Relativism in Curriculum Theory  14. The Misunderstood Role of the Artlƒv