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Elliot Eisner is born in Chicago, IL, USA -
Highschool Art Teacher in Chicago
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He attended the University of Chicago and received his M.A in Education. -
Eisner is an art teacher and instructor in Education at the University of Chicago.
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Assistant Professor of Education at the University of Chicago -
He attended the University of Chicago and received his PhD in Education
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Eisner is an art education at Ohio State University.
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Eisner’s initial focus was primarily on bringing attention to the arts and the lack of it in the American curriculum, he also wanted to point out that art did not need to be siloed from other subjects or that it had a monopoly over creativity.
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Eisner wanted to share his vision of the public school was one where standards might exist, but instead of dominating the curriculum they worked side by side with artistic approaches to developing curriculum and assessing students’ performance. Through his vision, he wanted the arts to teach students about making good judgements and helping students to understand that problems can have more than one solution, there can always be more than one answer.
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He came up with and worked to implement the artistic model of curriculum development which he believed should be the intersection between art, the curriculum and the artistry of teaching. -
He endeavoured to bring Art Education to the front lines of the discussion; he also made the argument that responsibility for the education of art and creativity belongs to all. There is art in all subject matter from maths to English to science, and teachers should not leave it up to the art teachers only to engage students in creative modes of expression.
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Eisner also published these books:
Readings in Art Education, Blaisdell (Waltham, MA), 1966.
A Comparison of the Developmental Drawing Characteristics of Culturally Advantaged and Culturally Disadvantaged Children, Stanford University (Stanford, CA), 1967.
Confronting Curriculum Reform, Little, Brown (Boston, MA), 1971.
Conflicting Conceptions of Curriculum, McCutchan (Berkeley, CA), 1974.
Learning and Teaching the Ways of Knowing, University of Chicago Press (Chicago, IL), 1985 -
Director of the Charles F. Kettering Foundation Curriculum Development Project
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Elliot Eisner became a professor of education and art at Stanford University. -
Member of board of trustees of Community School of Music and Art.
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Eisner published the book " Cognition and Curriculum: A Basis for Deciding What to Teach" in 1980 and revisited the publication in 1994. -
Eisner was the consulting editor of Curriculum Perspectives.
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Eisner was a member of advisory board of J. Paul Getty Center for Education in the Arts
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Eisner was the member of editorial advisory board of "Kappan" and "Just and Caring Education".
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Eisner coedited "Evaluating and Assessing the Visual Arts in Education: International Perspectives, a compilation of writings on art's correlation to education from prominent art and education authorities throughout the world". -
He was the 1997 recipient of the Sir Herbert Read Award of the International Society for Education through Art. -
Eisner was a member of editorial board of Critical Inquiry into the Curriculum and Instruction. -
Elliot Eisner dies from Parkinson's disease.