The Eisner, Elliot W. (Elliot Wayne) 1933-2014 creator text bibliography ctu New Haven Yale University Press c2002 2002 monographic eng

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xiv, 258 pages, 6 pages of unnumbered plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm. Although the arts are often thought to be closer to the rim of education than to its core, they are critically important means for developing complex and subtle aspects of the mind, argues Elliot Eisner. In this book he describes how various forms of thinking are evoked, developed, and refined through the arts. These forms of thinking are more helpful in dealing with the ambiguities and uncertainties of daily life than are the formally structured curricula that are employed today in schools. Offering a rich array of examples, Eisner describes different approaches to the teaching of the arts and the virtues each possesses when well taught. He discusses especially nettlesome issues pertaining to the evaluation of performance in the arts. Eisner provides a fresh and admittedly iconoclastic perspective on what the arts can contribute to education, namely a new vision of both its aims and its means. This new perspective, Eisner argues, is especially important today, a time at which mechanistic forms of technical rationality often dominate our thinking about the conduct and assessment of education Elliot W. Eisner. Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-253) and index. n-us--- Art Study and teaching Philosophy Art and society Art Study and teaching United States Arte Estudio y enseñanza Arte y sociedad Arte Enseñanza N 84 E36a 2002 707.1273 0300105118 (paperback) 9780300105117 (paperback) http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy036/2002005871.html http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy036/2002005871.html DLC 020412 20230410124128.0 eng