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The Arts and the Creation of Mind
Elliot W. Eisner
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Description for The Arts and the Creation of Mind
Paperback. Learning in and through the arts can develop complex and subtle aspects of the mind, argues Elliot Eisner in this book. Offering an array of examples, he describes different approaches to the teaching of the arts and shows how these refine forms of thinking that are valuable in dealing with our daily life. Num Pages: 288 pages, 38 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA; JN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 156 x 234 x 18. Weight in Grams: 426.
Although the arts are often thought to be closer to the rim of education than to its core, they are, surprisingly, critically important means for developing complex and subtle aspects of the mind, argues Elliot Eisner in this engrossing book. In it he describes how various forms of thinking are evoked, developed, and refined through the arts. These forms of thinking, Eisner argues, 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 ... Read more
Although the arts are often thought to be closer to the rim of education than to its core, they are, surprisingly, critically important means for developing complex and subtle aspects of the mind, argues Elliot Eisner in this engrossing book. In it he describes how various forms of thinking are evoked, developed, and refined through the arts. These forms of thinking, Eisner argues, 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Yale University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Condition
New
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780300105117
SKU
V9780300105117
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About Elliot W. Eisner
Elliot W. Eisner is Lee Jacks Professor of Education and Professor of Art at Stanford University.
Reviews for The Arts and the Creation of Mind
"Eloquent."—Library Journal The 2005 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award in Education "Elliot Eisner is long regarded as one of the most eloquent and best informed of those critical of the technicism dominating so many schools. At once, he is known as a trailbreaker in contemporary efforts to make the artistic-aesthetic dimension of experience central ... Read more