REIMAGINING SCHOOLS by Elliot W. Eisner ( 9780415366441 ) - Books & Audio Books at Pickabook.co.uk

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Title:

REIMAGINING SCHOOLS
THE SELECTED WORKS OF ELLIOT W. EISNER

By:

Elliot W. Eisner

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Hardback

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ISBN 10:

0415366445

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9780415366441

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Publisher:

TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD

Pub. date:

22 September, 2005

Pages:

240

Description:

Starting with an introduction, which gives an overview of Professor Eisner's career and contextualizes his selection, this book covers issues such as: children and art; the use of educational connoisseurship; aesthetic modes of knowing; absolutism and relativism in curriculum theory; and education reform and the ecology of schooling.

Synopsis:

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 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.

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2 black & white tables

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Taylor & Francis Ltd

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