61.067 - Taking Elliot Eisner's Scholarship Forward

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This symposium examines several educational topics developed by Elliot Eisner. These topics include the uses and limitations of educational objectives, the relationship between curriculum and action, the visual representation of research, the role of scholarship in curriculum development, and efforts to broaden present-day definitions of cognition. Each topic is addressed by a symposium participant in order to explain the topics significance and implications within the context of today’s emerging educational reforms.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Elliot Eisner

Chair

• Kimberly Anne Powell, The Pennsylvania State University

Papers

• Aims, Goals, and Objectives - Richard E. Siegesmund, Northern Illinois University

• Curriculum in the Doing - Stephen J. Thornton, University of South Florida - Tampa

• The Arts and the Representation of Data - Libba Willcox, Indiana University - Bloomington

• The Educational Imagination and the Idea of the Normative - Peter S. Hlebowitsh, The University of Alabama

• Cognitive Pluralism - David J. Flinders, Indiana University