Elliot Eisner has spent the last forty years researching thinking and writing about some of the enduring issues in arts education curriculum studies and qualitative research. He has compiled a career-long collection of his finest work including extracts from books key articles salient research findings and major theoretical contributions and brought them together in a single volume. Starting with a specially written introduction which gives an overview of Eisnerâs career and contextualises his selection the chapters cover a wide range of issues including: * children and art * the use of educational connoisseurship * aesthetic modes of knowing * absolutism and relativism in curriculum theory * education reform and the ecology of schooling * the future of education research. . Language: English