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| Elementary Education | 1 |
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| Imagination | 1 |
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| Eisner, Elliot W. | 1 |
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Peer reviewedEisner, Elliot W. – Language Arts, 2003
Argues that the absence of the arts in testing programs contributes to their marginalization. Considers the role of imaginative potential in determining what is important in schools. Considers what the arts have to do with literacy, that is, with the standard conceptions of reading and writing. Discusses transforming brains to minds, the arts as…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Elementary Education, Fine Arts, Imagination
