Reimagining Schools : The Selected Works of Elliot W. Eisner (Hardcover)

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 Arts in Human Development 15. Educational Reform and the Ecology of Schooling. 16. Forms of Understanding and the Future of Educational Research 17. Standards for American Schools: Help or Hindrance 18. The Promise and Perils of Alternative Forms of Data Representation 19. What Does it Mean to say a School is Doing Well? 20. From Episteme to Phronesis to Artistry in the Study and Improvement of Teaching 21. What Can Education Learn From the Arts About the Practice of Education