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 throu...

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1. Verfasser:	Eisner, Elliot W. 1933-2014 (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	New Haven [u.a.] Yale University Press 2002
Schlagworte:	Kunst Philosophie Art and society Art > Study and teaching > Philosophy Art > Study and teaching > United States Erziehungsphilosophie Kunsterziehung USA
Zusammenfassung:	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.
Beschreibung:	Includes bibliographical references and index. - Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke
Beschreibung:	XIV, 258 S. Ill.
ISBN:	0300095236 9780300105117