Elliot Eisner

1933 - 2014. University of Chicago (1962). 10 Lessons The Arts Teach.

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"I want to talk with you today about what education might learn from the arts about the practice of education."

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Eisner, Elliot W. (2002) 'What can education learn from the arts about the practice of education?'
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10. The arts’ position in the school curriculum symbolizes to the young what adults believe is important.

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9. The arts enable us to have experience we can have from no other source

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ext9. and through such experience to discover the range and variety of what we are capable of feeling.

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8. The arts help children learn to say what cannot be said. When children are invited to disclose what a work of art helps them feel,

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ext8. they must reach into their poetic capacities to find the words that will do the job.

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7. The arts teach students to think through and within a material. All art forms employ some means through which images become real.

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6. The arts teach students that small differences can have large effects. The arts traffic in subtleties.

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5. The arts make vivid the fact that neither words in their literal form nor numbers exhaust what we can know.

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ext5. The limits of our language do not define the limits of our cognition.

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4. The arts teach children that in complex forms of problem solving purposes are seldom fixed, but change with circumstance and opportunity.

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ext4. Learning in the arts requires the ability and a willingness to surrender to the unanticipated possibilities of the work as it unfolds.

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3. The arts celebrate multiple perspectives. One of their large lessons is that there are many ways to see and interpret the world.

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2. The arts teach children that problems can have more than one solution and that questions can have more than one answer.

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1. The arts teach children to make good judgements about qualitative relationships.

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ext1. Unlike much of the curriculum in which correct answers and rules prevail, in the arts, it is judgement rather than rules that prevail.

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