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According to Wikipedia, Elliot Wayne Eisner was a professor of Art and Education at the Stanford Graduate School of Education, and was one of the United States' leading academic minds. He was active in several fields including arts education, curriculum reform, qualitative research, and was the recipient of a University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award in 2005 for his work in education as well as the Brock International Prize in 2004. In 1992, he became the recipient of the José Vasconcelos World Award of Education in recognition to his 30 years of scholarly and professional work, particularly his contribution in the formulation of educational policy to better understand the potential of the arts in the educational development of the young. He was the 1997 recipient of the Sir Herbert Read Award of the International Society for Education through Art .

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The Enlightened Eye: Qualitative Inquiry and the Enhancement of Educational Practice (1993) (2355)
The Educational Imagination: On the Design and Evaluation of School Programs Elliot W. Eisner New York: Macmillan, 1979. 293 pp, $15.95 (1980) (1772)
The Arts and the Creation of Mind (2017) (1681)
Qualitative Inquiry in Education: The Continuing Debate (1990) (828)
The Educational Imagination (1979) (714)
Toward a methodology of naturalistic inquiry in educational evaluation (1978) (695)
The Promise and Perils of Alternative Forms of Data Representation (1997) (572)
Arts-Based Educational Research (2006) (531)
What Can Education Learn from the Arts about the Practice of Education (2004) (472)
Educating Artistic Vision (1972) (412)
On the Differences Between Scientific and Artistic Approaches to Qualitative Research (1981) (404)
Does Experience in the Arts Boost Academic Achievement (1998) (370)
Forms of Understanding and the Future of Educational Research (1993) (362)
Arts Based Research (2011) (352)
The Art Of Educational Evaluation: A Personal View (1985) (318)
Cognition And Curriculum Reconsidered (1994) (300)
The Enlightened Eye (1991) (286)
Conflicting Conceptions Of Curriculum (1974) (260)
The kind of schools we need (2002) (253)
From episteme to phronesis to artistry in the study and improvement of teaching (2002) (246)
ART AND KNOWLEDGE (2007) (230)
The Kind of Schools We Need: Personal Essays. (1998) (229)
Objectivity in Educational Research (1992) (226)
The Primacy of Experience and the Politics of Method (1988) (223)
What Does it Mean to Say a School is Doing Well? (2001) (213)
Educational Connoisseurship and Criticism: Their Form and Functions in Educational Evaluation (1976) (192)
Educational Connoisseurship and Criticism: Their Form and Functions in Educational Evaluation (1976) (189)
Learning and teaching the ways of knowing (1985) (184)
The Art and Craft of Teaching. (1983) (180)
Cognition and Curriculum: A Basis for Deciding What to Teach (1982) (168)
Educational Reform and the Ecology of Schooling. (1992) (163)
The New Frontier in Qualitative Research Methodology (1997) (152)
Reimagining Schools: The Selected Works of Elliot W. Eisner (2005) (147)
The Misunderstood Role of the Arts in Human Development. (1992) (136)
Instructional and Expressive Educational Objectives: Their Formulation and Use in Curriculum. (1967) (131)
The role of discipline-based art education in America's schools (1986) (127)
Educar la visión artística (1995) (125)
WHAT ARTISTICALLY CRAFTED RESEARCH CAN HELP US UNDERSTAND ABOUT SCHOOLS (1995) (115)
Handbook of Research and Policy in Art Education (2004) (114)
Concerns and aspirations for qualitative research in the new millennium (2001) (108)
Aesthetic Modes of Knowing (1985) (106)
The Uses and Limits of Performance Assessment (1999) (105)
Does Arts-Based Research Have a Future? (2006) (105)
Help or Hindrance? (1967) (99)
Those who ignore the past … : 12 'easy' lessons for the next millennium (2000) (96)
Cognition and Representation: A Way To Pursue the American Dream?. (1997) (94)
Should We Create New Aims for Art Education? (2001) (91)
What Really Counts in Schools. (1991) (88)
Persistent tensions in arts-based research (2013) (85)
Reshaping assessment in education: some criteria in search of practice (1993) (82)
Educational Objectives—Help 0r Hindrance? (2005) (74)
The Perceptive Eye: Toward the Reformation of Educational Evaluation. (1975) (73)
On the Uses of Educational Connoisseurship and Criticism for Evaluating Classroom Life. (1977) (70)
What the Arts Taught Me about Education (1991) (68)
Artistry in Education (2003) (66)
Standards for American Schools: Help or Hindrance? (1995) (64)
Multiple Intelligences: Its Tensions and Possibilities (2004) (64)
The Role of the Arts in Cognition and Curriculum. (1981) (64)
On the art and science of qualitative research in psychology. (2003) (63)
The Use of Qualitative Forms of Evaluation For Improving Educational Practice (1979) (63)
The Ecology of School Improvement. (1988) (62)
Questionable Assumptions About Schooling. (2003) (59)
A Practical View of the Theoretical in Curriculum@@@Thinking about the Curriculum: The Nature and Treatment of Curriculum Problems (1981) (57)
Anastasia Might Still be Alive, But the Monarchy is Dead (1983) (56)
Readings in art education (1968) (55)
What Education Can Learn from the Arts. (2009) (51)
Emerging Models for Educational Evaluation (1972) (50)
The Arts, Human Development, and Education (1977) (49)
A Response to My Critics (1967) (48)
Back to Whole. (2005) (47)
No Easy Answers: Joseph Schwab's Contributions to Curriculum. (1984) (41)
Art In Science (2002) (41)
Opening a Shuttered Window: An Introduction to a Special Section on the Arts and the Intellect (2005) (39)
Examining Some Myths in Art Education. (1973) (39)
Arts Education Policy? (2000) (37)
The Impoverished Mind. (1978) (36)
Why Standards May Not Improve Schools. (1993) (36)
Educational Criticism as a form of Qualitative Inquiry (2000) (36)
Structure and Magic in Discipline‐based Art Education (1988) (35)
Creative Curriculum Development and Practice. (1990) (35)
Is the Artist in the School Program Effective (1974) (34)
The Emergence of New Paradigms for Educational Research. (1993) (34)
The Getty Education Institute for the Arts (1998) (34)
The Federal Reform of Schools: Looking for the Silver Bullet. (1992) (33)
The Lowenfeld Lecture 2008: What Education Can Learn from the Arts (2009) (32)
Music Education Six Months after the Turn of the Century (2001) (32)
The Education of Vision. (1993) (31)
Educational Objectives: Help or Hindrance? (Vol. 75, 1967). (1983) (30)
Who Decides What Schools Teach (1990) (30)
Curriculum Making for the Wee Folk: Stanford University's Kettering Project (1968) (28)
Special Series on Arts-Based Educational Research (2002) (28)
Confronting Curriculum Reform (1971) (27)
Benjamin Bloom (2000) (26)
Nineteenth-Century Poetry and Literary Celebrity (2009) (26)
Reading, the arts, and the creation of mearning (1979) (26)
Getting down to Basics in Arts Education (1999) (25)
Preparing Teachers for Schools of the 21st Century (1995) (25)
Humanistic Trends and the Curriculum Field (1978) (25)
Multiple Intelligences: The Theory in Practice by Howard Gardner Commentary: Putting Multiple Intelligences in Context: Some Questions and Observations (1994) (25)
The Uncertain Profession: Educators in American Art Museums (1987) (24)
What Do Children Learn When They Paint (1978) (24)
Are All Causal Claims Positivistic? (1992) (23)
Discipline-Based Art Education: Its Criticisms and Its Critics. (1988) (23)
Should America Have a National Curriculum (1991) (23)
Curriculum Ideas in a Time of Crisis (1965) (23)
Rejoinder: A Response to Tom Knapp (1999) (22)
Chapter VII: Taking a Second Look: Educational Connoisseurship Revisited (1991) (22)
Franklin Bobbitt and the "Science" of Curriculum Making (1967) (21)
Interlude: Assessment and Evaluation in Education and the Arts (2007) (21)
A Survey of Graduate Study in Art Education (1998) (21)
What do the Arts teach? (1998) (20)
The Satisfactions of Teaching. (2006) (20)
Children’s Creativity in Art: A Study of Types (1965) (20)
Revisionism in Art Education: Some Comments on the Preceding Articles (1994) (19)
Alternative Approaches to Curriculum Development in Art Education. (1984) (19)
Mind as Cultural Achievement. (1981) (19)
The State of Art Education Today and Some Potential Remedies: A Report to the National Endowment for the Arts. (1978) (19)
A comparison of the developmental drawing characteristics of culturally advantaged and culturally disadvantaged children (1967) (18)
"The Vision Thing": Educational Research and AERA in the 21st Century–Part 5:A Vision for Educational Research and AERA in the 21st Century (1998) (18)
Silent Pedagogy: How Museums Help Visitors Experience Exhibitions. (1988) (18)
Qualitative Research in Music Education: Past, Present, Perils, Promise. (1996) (18)
Recent Developments in Educational Research Affecting Art Education. (1979) (17)
The Roots of Connoisseurship and Criticism A Personal Journey (2004) (17)
Discipline-Based Art Education: Conceptions and Misconceptions (1990) (16)
" Educational Objectives: Help or Hindrance?" Elliott Eisner [1967] (1983) (16)
The Development of Information and Attitude toward Art at the Secondary and College Levels (1966) (16)
Eisner, Elliot W., The Educational Imagination: On the Design and Evaluation of School Programs . New York: Macmillan, 1979. Second Edition, 1985. Third Edition, 1994. (1979) (16)
Research in Creativity: Some Findings and Conceptions (1963) (15)
The National Assessment in the Visual Arts. (1999) (15)
The Mythology of Art Education (1974) (15)
Silent Pedagogy in Art Museums (1990) (14)
A Slice of Advice. (1992) (14)
Can educational research inform educational practice (2016) (13)
Educational Connoisseurship and Educational Criticism: An Arts-Based Approach to Educational Evaluation (2003) (13)
Cross-Cultural Research in Arts Education: Problems, Issues, and Prospects. (1979) (13)
Eisner, Elliot W., The Enlightened Eye: Qualitative Inquiry and the Enhancement of Educational Practice. New York: Macmillan, 1991. 2nd Ed., Prentice-Hall, 1998. (1991) (12)
A Typology of Creativity in the Visual Arts (1962) (12)
Toward a New Era in Art Education (1965) (12)
Critical Thinking: Some Cognitive Components (1965) (12)
The state in the American political economy (1994) (12)
The Contribution of Painting to Children's Cognitive Development (1979) (11)
Eisner, Elliot W., and Elizabeth Vallance, eds., Conflicting Conceptions of Curriculum . Berkeley, CA: McCutchan, 1974. (1974) (11)
The Drawings of the Disadvantaged: A Comparative Study. (1969) (11)
A Secretary in the Classroom. (1986) (11)
The Celebration of thinking (1988) (11)
Commentary: What Education Can Learn From the Arts (2008) (11)
Artistic Thinking, Human Intelligence and the Mission of the School. (1980) (11)
Clay in the Classroom: Helping Children Develop Cognitive and Affective Skills for Learning (1989) (10)
Curriculum Development in Stanford University's Kettering Project: Recollections and Ruminations. (1975) (10)
Do Behavioral Objectives and Accountability Have a Place in Art Education (1973) (10)
Towards a More Adequate Conception of Evaluation in the Arts. (1974) (10)
Do American Schools Need Standards (1994) (10)
Toward A More Adequate Conception of Evaluation in the Arts. (1975) (10)
Current Issues in Art and Design Education: Art Education Today: a Look at its Past and an Agenda for the Future (1989) (10)
Cognitive Development: Its Cultural and Social Foundations by A. R. Luria, Cognitive Psychology: The Study of Knowing, Learning, and Thinking by Barry F. Anderson (review) (2017) (9)
How Can You Measure a Rainbow? Tactics for Evaluating the Teaching of Art (1971) (9)
MEDIA, EXPRESSION AND THE ARTS (1971) (9)
On the Relationship of Conception to Representation (1983) (9)
Levels of Curriculum and Curriculum Research (1965) (9)
A Response to Catterall. (1998) (9)
The Role of the Arts in the Invention of Man. (1980) (9)
The Promise of Teacher Education. (1972) (8)
Discipline-Based Art Education: A Reply to Jackson (1987) (8)
Responses to Our Critics (1994) (8)
Art History, Art Criticism, and Art Production (1984) (8)
The Relationship of Theory and Practice in Art Education (1982) (8)
The Arts as a Way of Knowing. (1980) (7)
Educating the Whole Person: Arts in the Curriculum (1987) (7)
Art Education Today: Neither Millennium nor Mirage. (1997) (7)
Two Portraits of Arts Education: Homegrown in the Midwest@@@Custom and Cherishing: The Arts in Elementary Schools@@@The Status of Art Education in American Public Schools (1993) (7)
Curriculum Development: Sources for a Foundation for the Field of Curriculum. (1970) (7)
Protecting Our Children from the Arts. (2003) (7)
Growing up Urban (2009) (6)
Thoughts on an Agenda for Research and Development in Arts Education (1977) (6)
Music Education Six Months After the Turn of the Century 1 (2001) (6)
Invitational Conference on the Hidden Consequences of a National Curriculum (1993) (6)
Changing Conceptions of Artistic Learning (1967) (5)
A Paradigm for the Analysis of Visual Problem Solving (1961) (5)
Persistent Dilemmas in Curriculum Decision-Making. (1969) (5)
Artistry and Pedagogy in Curriculum (2004) (4)
Making the Arts a Reality in the Schools of Tomorrow--An Agenda for Today. (1976) (4)
Creative Education in American Schools Today. (1985) (4)
The Future of the Secondary School: A Viewpoint (1975) (4)
Future Priorities for Curriculum Reform. (1980) (4)
Education and the Idea of Mankind (1965) (4)
The Arts, Language and the Schools. (1987) (4)
Governing the Environment (2006) (4)
Conflicting Conceptions of Curriculum (Series on contemporary educational issues) (1974) (4)
To ward a Conceptual Revolution in Evaluation (1980) (4)
A role for research in the education of the teacher of art (1962) (3)
Initiating Art Experiences for Delinquent Students (1960) (3)
Eisner, Elliot W., Reimagining Schools: The Selected Works of Elliot W. Eisner. New York: Routledge, 2005. (2005) (3)
On the Impossibility of Theory in Art Education (2015) (3)
What We Don't Know about the Teaching of Art. (1980) (3)
Stanford's Kettering Project (1970) (3)
The New Rationality in Art Education: Promise or Pitfall?. (1969) (3)
The Contribution of Painting to Children's Cognitive Development * (1982) (3)
Arts Education for the 21st Century. (1999) (3)
Stanford's Kettering Project, Appraisal of Two Years Work. (1970) (3)
The Challenge to Art Education (1967) (3)
A Reply to Gabriele Lakomski (1992) (3)
What we know about children's art—and what we need to know (1977) (3)
Notes on Composing and Composition (2013) (3)
The Humanities: Is a New Era Possible?. (1969) (3)
Editorial: The Getty Education Institute for the Arts (1998) (3)
Eisner, Elliot, and Kimberly Powell,"Art in Science?" Curriculum Inquiry, 32(Summer, 2002), 131-159. (2002) (2)
Some Alternatives to Quantitative Forms of Educational Evaluation. (1975) (2)
The School as an Aesthetic Community (1959) (2)
The Principal's Role in Arts Education. (1988) (2)
Supercomputers in Seismic Exploration (2013) (2)
The Loci of Creativity in Art (1960) (2)
Research news and Comments: A Slice of Advice (1992) (2)
Reforming Schools: are These Lessons to Learn from the United States? (1990) (2)
Instruction, Teaching, and Learning An Attempt at Differentiation (1964) (2)
Kids Aren't Made with Cookie Cutters. (1978) (2)
In Memory of Lee J. Cronbach (1916–2001) (2005) (2)
The Role of Education in the Cultural and Artistic Development of the Individual. (1992) (2)
Naturalistic Models of Evaluation: Their Similarities and Differences (1983) (2)
Barred from School (1977) (1)
The Qualitative Arts in Educational Inquiry@@@The Educational Imagination (1981) (1)
Response to Arthur Efland's and Richard Siegesmund's Reviews of The Arts and the Creation of Mind (2004) (1)
When Good Teaching Is Like Juggling. (1979) (1)
Introduction to Special Section on Objectivity, Subjectivity, and Relativism (1992) (1)
Convention Address: Art Education—1975–1981 (1979) (1)
The Preparation of Curriculum Scholars in Research Universities: Seeing Both the Forest and the Trees (1988) (1)
The Metaphor and the Measure: Controversies in Educational Practice. (1971) (1)
Is ‘The Art of Teaching’ a Metaphor? (2020) (1)
Career Education: The State of the Idea and Its Prospects for the Future. Final Report. (1974) (1)
Interview: Arts Education for the 21st Century (1999) (1)
Graduate Study and the Preparation of Scholars in Art Education (1965) (1)
Situation Potentials and Personality Needs in Teaching (1961) (1)
Educational Reform and the Ecology of Schooling (1992) (1)
Arts Curricula for the Gifted (1966) (1)
Comments on "The Educational Imagination"@@@The Educational Imagination (1981) (1)
The Author Responds@@@The Educational Imagination (1981) (1)
English primary schools : some observations and assessments (1974) (1)
A Critique of the Educational Imagination in Evaluation@@@The Educational Imagination (1981) (1)
Response to Professor Clark (1994) (1)
Why Art In Education and Why Art Education ? (2012) (1)
Toward a more adequate conception of evaluation in the arts (1975) (1)
Book Reviews: Toward a Methodology of Naturalistic Inquiry in Educational Evaluation (1979) (1)
News and Comment (1963) (1)
Eisner, Elliot W., The Art of Educational Evaluation: A Personal View . London: Falmer, 1985. (1985) (1)
Chapter II: Aesthetic Modes of Knowing (1985) (1)
On the Uses of Educational Connoisseurship and Criticism for Evaluating Classroom Life (1977) (1)
Reading the Images of Culture. (1984) (1)
An Analysis of Lanier's Analysis of Beyond Creating (1987) (1)
Why finding new forms for representing quality matters (2001) (1)
RALPH WINIFRED TYLER 1902–94 (2002) (1)
Neither Millenium nor Mirage (1966) (0)
2. VISIONS AND VERSIONS OF ARTS EDUCATION (2017) (0)
What is Quality Education (1978) (0)
Selected References on Elementary-School Instruction. III. The Subject Fields (1959) (0)
Status/Graduate Programs in Art Education (1964) (0)
Elliot Eisner and music education: Eight big ideas about the arts in education (2009) (0)
Chapter VII: Can the Humanities be Taught in American Public Schools? (1984) (0)
Eisner, Elliot W., "Humanistic Trends and the Curriculum Field," Journal of Curriculum Studies, 10(July-September, 1978), 197-204. (1978) (0)
The Evaluation and Research of Curriculum Materials. (1970) (0)
Imagining Educational Criticism@@@The Educational Imagination (1982) (0)
Selected References on Elementary-School Instruction. III. The Subject Fields (1963) (0)
Cultural Arts: PROJECT DESIGN. Educational Needs, Fresno, 1968, Number 15. (1968) (0)
1st presentation Pauline Sameshima’s story, “Seeing red” (2009) (0)
10. SUMMARY AND SIGNIFICANCE (2017) (0)
Remembering Egon (2008) (0)
Art Education and the Teacher (1960) (0)
Successes and Failures of Constructivism: A Continuing Discussion. (2009) (0)
Book Reviews: Two Portraits of Arts Education Homegrown in the Midwest (1993) (0)
Highlights: 1991 Annual Meeting (1991) (0)
Letters: A Rejoinder (1981) (0)
Speaking of the arts and education : a 2-cassette album (1974) (0)
Selected References on Elementary-School Instruction. III. The Subject Fields (1962) (0)
Selected References on Elementary-School Instruction. III. The Subject Fields (1961) (0)
Book reviews (1973) (0)
Response to the New Aesthetic Curriculum Theorists and Their Astonishing Ideas (1985) (0)
Eisner, Elliot W., "What Can Education Learn from the Arts about the Practice of Education?" Journal of Curriculum and Supervision, 18(Fall, 2002), 4-16. (2002) (0)
Elliot Eisner-What Do the Arts Teach (2008) (0)
Eisner, Elliot W., "Aesthetic Modes of Knowing," pp. 23-36 in Elliot W. Eisner, ed., Learning and Teaching the Ways of Knowing, 84th Yearbook of the NSSE, Part II. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1985. (1985) (0)
Children's Art as Extension of Mind. (1970) (0)
7. THE EDUCATIONAL USES OF ASSESSMENT AND EVALUATION IN THE ARTS (2017) (0)
Volume Information (1964) (0)
Eisner, Elliot W., "Curriculum Theory and the Concept of Educational Milieu," High School Journal, 51(December, 1967), 132-146. (1967) (0)
Eisner, Elliot, ed., Learning and Teaching the Ways of Knowing , 84th NSSE Yearbook, Part II. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1985. (1985) (0)
Eisner, Elliot W., "Forms of Understanding and the Future of Educational Research," Educational Researcher, 22(October, 1993), 5-11.* (1993) (0)
Educational Connoisseurshipand Criticism (1983) (0)
Preparation for Art. June King McFee (1963) (0)
Schwab ' s Practical Theory : Integrate of Theory and Practice (2018) (0)
A Reply to Professor Schrag (1988) (0)
Slippery Moves and Blind Alleys: My Travels with Absolutism and Relativism in Curriculum Theory (1989) (0)
A symposium--Multiple Intelligences: The Theory in Practice by Howard Gardner (1994) (0)
Social Influences on Educational Practice. (1979) (0)
Essay Reviews: Passionate Portraits of Schools (1984) (0)
Lessons from the Arts: A Review of The Arts and the Creation of Mind (2003) (0)
PHILIP WESLEY JACKSON 1928 (2002) (0)
Selected References on Elementary-School Instruction. III. The Subject Fields (1960) (0)
An Agenda for Today for a Field Tomorrow (1977) (0)
The influe nce of cognitive psychology on art education as seen in the work of Howard Gardner (1997) (0)
You Have Political Clout; Are You Using It?. (1979) (0)
Letters: A Reply to Professor Schrag (1988) (0)
Book Reviews: Eisner's Reply (1988) (0)
Volume Information (1963) (0)
Art Education during Adolescence. Charles D. Gaitskell , Margaret R. GaitskellCreative Power: The Education of Youth in the Creative Arts. Hughes Mearns (1960) (0)
Selected References on Elementary-School Instruction. III. The Subject Fields (1964) (0)
Highlights of the 1983 Annual Meeting (1983) (0)
World Library of Educationalists series (2006) (0)
Curriculum Balance: What is It?. (1979) (0)
Introduction to the Arts in American Education (1964) (0)
American Education and the Future of Art Education (1965) (0)
Eisner, Elliot W., "No Easy Answers: Joseph Schwab's Contributions to Curriculum," Curriculum Inquiry, 14(Summer, 1984), 201-210. (1984) (0)
9. AN AGENDA FOR RESEARCH IN ARTS EDUCATION (2017) (0)
Alan 'Buddy' Peshkin (2007) (0)
Correspondence: A Response to Professor Marantz (1991) (0)
TI'HE EDITOR'S PAGE (2016) (0)
What do men want (2000) (0)

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