Reimagining Schools

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:* children and ar* the use of educational connoisseurshi* aesthetic modes of knowin* absolutism and relativism in curriculum theor* education reform and the ecology of schoolin* the future of education research.