The arts and the creation of mind
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
xiv, 258 pages, 6 pages of unnumbered plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
9780300095234, 9780300105117, 0300095236, 0300105118
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The ARTS and the CREATION of MIND
By ELLIOT W. EISNER
YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Copyright © 2002 Elliot W. EisnerAll right reserved.
ISBN: 0-300-09523-6
Contents
Acknowledgments.....................................................................ixIntroduction........................................................................xi1 The Role of the Arts in Transforming Consciousness................................12 Visions and Versions of Arts Education............................................253 Teaching the Visual Arts..........................................................464 What the Arts Teach and How It Shows..............................................705 Describing Learning in the Visual Arts............................................936 The Centrality of Curriculum and the Function of Standards........................1487 The Educational Uses of Assessment and Evaluation in the Arts.....................1788 What Education Can Learn from the Arts............................................1969 An Agenda for Research in Arts Education..........................................20910 Summary and Significance.........................................................230Notes...............................................................................243Index...............................................................................254
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