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Record Nr.

UNINA9910777770903321

Autore

Eisner Elliot W.

Titolo

The arts and the creation of mind / / Elliot W. Eisner

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Haven : , : Yale University Press, , [2002]

ISBN

0-300-27866-7

1-281-72265-0

9786611722654

0-300-13357-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (288 pages)

Disciplina

707/.1/273

Soggetti

Art and society

Art in education - United States

Art - Study and teaching - United States - Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-253) and index.

Nota di contenuto

The role of the arts in transforming consciousness -- Visions and versions of arts education -- Teaching the visual arts -- What the arts teach and how it shows -- Describing learning in the visual arts -- The centrality of curriculum and the function of standards -- The educational uses of assessment and evaluation in the arts -- What education can learn from the arts -- An agenda for research in arts education -- Summary and significance.

Sommario/riassunto

"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. Perhaps most important, 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"--Publisher's description.