Elliot Eisner was a professor of art and education at Stanford University. He was concerned that the American education system placed art on a lesser level of importance and was unbalanced. Eisner believed that education itself is an artistic activity that allows people to think more creatively. His artistic approach to curriculum planning comprised seven components: goals and priorities, content sources, types of learning opportunities, organization of opportunities, organization of content areas, modes of presentation and response, and types of evaluation procedures.
Elliot Eisner was a professor of art and education at Stanford University. He was concerned that the American education system placed art on a lesser level of importance and was unbalanced. Eisner believed that education itself is an artistic activity that allows people to think more creatively. His artistic approach to curriculum planning comprised seven components: goals and priorities, content sources, types of learning opportunities, organization of opportunities, organization of content areas, modes of presentation and response, and types of evaluation procedures.
Elliot Eisner was a professor of art and education at Stanford University. He was concerned that the American education system placed art on a lesser level of importance and was unbalanced. Eisner believed that education itself is an artistic activity that allows people to think more creatively. His artistic approach to curriculum planning comprised seven components: goals and priorities, content sources, types of learning opportunities, organization of opportunities, organization of content areas, modes of presentation and response, and types of evaluation procedures.
Elliot Eisner was a professor of art and education at Stanford University. He was concerned that the American education system placed art on a lesser level of importance and was unbalanced. Eisner believed that education itself is an artistic activity that allows people to think more creatively. His artistic approach to curriculum planning comprised seven components: goals and priorities, content sources, types of learning opportunities, organization of opportunities, organization of content areas, modes of presentation and response, and types of evaluation procedures.
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Elliot Eisner was concerned that the American model of education placed art on a lesser level of importance and was unbalanced. He proposed viewing education as an artistic activity to make it more creative.
Eisner's artistic approach to curriculum planning has seven components: goals and priorities, content, types of learning opportunities, organization of learning opportunities, organization of content areas, modes of presentation and response, and types of evaluation procedures.
Eisner viewed education as an artistic activity. He argued this would allow moving beyond technical knowledge and reliance on instruction to more creative ways of knowing and being.
Eisner’s Model
(Elliot Eisner’s Artistic Approach)
Elliot W. Eisner •He is a professor of Art and Education at the Stanford University School of Education.
•His research interests include
arts education, curriculum reform, qualitative research methods, among others.
•Eisner become worried that the
current model of education in America was unbalanced and placed art on a lesser level of importance. Another aspect of Eisner’s view of education, was the idea that education itself is an artistic activity.
From the perspective of
education as art, Eisner argued that this would allow us to move beyond the technical know how and instructive reliance, and instead open our minds to more creative ways of knowing and being. Eisner’s Artistic Approach
This artistic approach to curriculum
planning by Elliot W. Eisner was developed with a combination of his interest in art education and curriculum. It comprises seven components, which are as follows: 1. The goals and their priorities. He stressed out that the term “objectives” is the most specific statement compared to “aims” and “goals” and it is not always possible to have very specific objectives. 2. The content of the curriculum. Eisner have similar belief with that of Tyler, that curriculum developers should consider the three basic sources from which content can be drawn: individual, society and subject matter. 3. The types of learning opportunities. He also considered that different learning opportunities should be given to the students wherein the curriculum planners and teachers play a very important role. 4. The organization of learning opportunities. Curriculum planners must organize learning opportunities that will be given to students with teachers, input the planning process. 5. The organization of content areas. Similar with that of Taba, Eisner also think that the teachers are responsible for organizing the activities and the content to be learned by the students. 6. The mode of presentation and mode of response. He pointed out that diverse modes of communication should be used in the classroom in presenting the curriculum to provide a wide variety of learning opportunities. 7. The types of evaluation procedure. This last component, according to Eisner, evaluation encompasses the entire process of curriculum planning and development. References: