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   from the issue of February 19, 2004

     
 
Education Expert Eisner to Lecture Feb. 26

Famed education expert Elliot W. Eisner, Professor of Education and Professor of Art and Education at Stanford University, will give a lecture at 10:30 a.m. Feb. 26 in the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery auditorium. The lecture is free and open to the public and is presented by the Hixson-Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts and the School of Music.

 
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Eisner has been at Stanford since 1965. He is known for his scholarship in arts education, curriculum studies and educational evaluation. His research interests focus on the development of aesthetic intelligence and the use of critical methods from the arts in studying and improving educational practice. Originally trained as a painter, his teaching and research center on the ways schools might improve by using the processes of the arts in all their programs.

Eisner has lectured throughout the world and has published more than 15 books, including The Enlightened Eye: Qualitative Inquiry and the Enhancement of Educational Practice (1990) and The Kind of Schools We Need (1998).


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