The Educational Imagination Revisited

Abstract

(Eisner, Elliot W., 1979. The educational imagination: On the design and evaluation of school programs. New York: Macmillan.)

Notes

Notes

1 His best-known books include (but are not limited to) (1971), Educating Artistic Vision (1972), The Educational Imagination: On the Design and Evaluation of School Programs (1979, 2002), (1985a), Learning and Teaching the Ways of Knowing (1985b), (1988), (1991, 1998a), (2 ed.) (1994), (1998b), and (2002a). Working with other authors or editors his best-known books include (with David Ecker in 1966), Conflicting Conceptions of Curriculum (with Elizabeth Vallance in 1974), (with Alan Peshkin in 1990), and (with Michael Day in 2004).

2 Standardized tests are norm referenced and as such privilege a particular group. Eisner’s model privileges context: teaching, learning, and achievement need to be contextually responsive.