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  • The Arts and the Creation of Mind

    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 ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • The Enlightened Eye

    Qualitative Inquiry and the Enhancement of Educational Practice, Reissued with a New Prologue and Foreword

    Now available from TC Press with a new foreword by Nel Noddings and a new prologue by P. Bruce Uhrmacher and Christy McConnell Moroye, this classic text on qualitative research is ideal for both novice and established researchers. Eisner’s seminal work on mind, education, and research explores the ways in which the methods, content, and assumptions in the arts, humanities, and social sciences can ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Reimagining Schools

    The Selected Works of Elliot W. Eisner

    Series series World Library of Educationalists
    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 ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Handbook of Research and Policy in Art Education

    The Handbook of Research and Policy in Art Education marks a milestone in the field of art education. Sponsored by the National Art Education Association and assembled by an internationally known group of art educators, this 36-chapter handbook provides an overview of the remarkable progress that has characterized this field in recent decades. Organized into six sections, it profiles and ... Read more

    $180.00 USD

  • Arts Based Research

    Arts Based Research isideal for students, researchers, and practitioners. This unique book provides a framework for broadening the domain of qualitative inquiry in the social sciences by incorporating the arts as a means of better understanding and rethinking important social issues. In the book′s 10 thought-provoking chapters, authors Tom Barone and Elliot W. Eisner--pioneers in the field- ... Read more

    $87.29 USD

  • Cognition and Curriculum Reconsidered

    In his 1980 John Dewey Lecture, Elliot Eisner argued powerfully and eloquently for a view of literacy that goes beyond verbal and numerical skills, focusing instead on the central role of the senses in the twin processes of human conceptualization and expression. A few years later, Professor Eisner elaborated and expanded that lecture into Cognition and Curriculum, a book that was hailed as having ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

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  • Using Art to Teach Reading Comprehension Strategies

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    Using Art to Teach Reading Comprehension Strategies: Lesson Plans for Teachers will provide both classroom and art teachers with an overview of six different reading strategies and integrated reading and art lessons that they can implement in their own classrooms and schools. Addressing specific National Visual Art Standards, Common Core Standards for Reading, and National Reading Standards, this ... Read more

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  • The War Against Excellence

    The Rising Tide of Mediocrity in America's Middle Schools

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  • Ukulele Lessons for Beginners

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    Series series Progressive Beginner
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    Fifty Resilient Students Speak

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