Re-Imagining Schools The Selected Works of Elliot Eisner (World Library of Educationalists Series) [#1019878]

Re-Imagining Schools: The Selected Works of Elliot Eisner (World Library of Educationalists Series) By E. Eisner
2005 | 240 Pages | ISBN: 0415366445 | PDF | 2 MB
Elliot Eisner has spent the last forty years researching, thinking and writing about some of theenduring issues in arts education, curriculum studies and qualitative research. He has compiled a career-long collection of his finest workincluding extracts from books, key articles, salient research findings and major theoretical contributions and brought them together ina single volume. Starting with a specially written introduction, which gives an overview of Eisner's 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.