For courses in qualitative research in education. Now in paperback, this seminal work in qualitative research methods is the definitive statement on qualitative research from the perspective of connoiseurship and criticism. This benchmark work gives students a solid understanding of qualitative res[...]
Learning in and through the arts can develop complex and subtle aspects of the mind, argues Elliot Eisner in this engrossing book. Offering a rich array of examples, he describes different approaches to the teaching of the arts and shows how these refine forms of thinking that are valuable in dealin[...]
Designed to be used as both a class text and a resource for researchers and practitioners, "Arts Based Research" provides a framework for those who seek to broaden the domain of qualitative inquiry in the social sciences by incorporating the arts as forms that represent human knowing.[...]
'Can give you some idea of the vision you are trying to transmit amidst all those examination results' - "Management in Education". 'The powerful ideas ...in the First Edition have gained ...urgency from the realities of the political policies for education which the intervening years have witnessed[...]
Every teacher has powerful memories of becoming swept up in an electric moment when the classroom hums with energy and students are wholly engaged in learning. During such moments of real learning, teenagers find genuine meaning, worth, and value in their academic experiences. And their teachers fin[...]