Reimagining Schools

<p>Elliot Eisner has spent the last forty years researching thinking and writing about some of the enduring issues in arts education curriculum studies and qualitative research. He has compiled a career-long collection of his finest work including extracts from books key articles salient research findings and major theoretical contributions and brought them together in a single volume. Starting with a specially written introduction which gives an overview of Eisner’s career and contextualises his selection the chapters cover a wide range of issues including:</p><p>* children and art<br>* the use of educational connoisseurship<br>* aesthetic modes of knowing<br>* absolutism and relativism in curriculum theory<br>* education reform and the ecology of schooling<br>* the future of education research.</p>