The Kind of Schools We Need

by Eisner, Elliot W.

• ISBN13: 9780325000299
• ISBN10: 0325000298
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-08-24
• Publisher: HEINEMAN

Summary

In a long and distinguished career, Eisner has given eloquent voice to the concerns of those who decry the marginalization of the arts in school curriculums. Now, for the first time ever, readers will have access to his best essays in one concise volume.

Author Biography

ELLIOT EISNER is Professor of Education and Art at Stanford University. He has published fifteen books and has won numerous awards for his work, including a Fulbright Fellowship, a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Palmer O. Johnson Award from the American Educational Research Association. Eisner was President of the National Art Education Association, President of the International Society for Education Through Art, President of the American Educational Research Association, and is President of the John Dewey Society.

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION	1	(8)
COGNITION AND REPRESENTATION	9	(48)
1 Rethinking Literacy	9	(12)
2 The Celebration of Thinking	21	(11)
3 Aesthetic Modes of Knowing	32	(12)
4 Cognition and Representation: A Way to Pursue the American Dream?	44	(13)
THE ARTS AND THEIR ROLE IN EDUCATION	57	(46)
5 What the Arts Taught Me About Education	57	(13)
6 The Education of Vision	70	(7)
7 The Misunderstood Role of the Arts in Human Development	77	(10)
8 Does Experience in the Arts Boost Academic Achievement?	87	(16)
RETHINKING EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH	103	(54)
9 The Meaning of Alternative Paradigms for Practice	103	(13)
10 Forms of Understanding and the Future of Educational Research	116	(16)
11 Reshaping Assessment in Education	132	(17)
12 What Artistically Crafted Research Can Help Us Understand About Schools	149	(8)
THE PRACTICE AND REFORM OF SCHOOLS	157	(62)
13 Educational Reform and the Ecology of Schools	157	(18)
14 Standards for American Schools: Help or Hindrance?	175	(13)
15 What a Professor Learned in the Third Grade	188	(18)
16 Preparing Teachers for the Twenty-first Century	206	(13)
WORKS CITED	219	(6)
INDEX	225