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 * Shaker Name:** Elliot W. Eisner


 * Basic Work:** Elliot Eisner is know across the United States for his work in arts education, curriculum studies and educational evaluation. Eisner has published several books: //The Educational Imagination, The Art of Educational Evaluation, Cognition and Curriculum, The Enlightened Eye// and //The Kind of Schools We Need.// Eisner is nationally know for his concerns that most public and private schools are failing to properly appreciate the significance of art. Eisner is also nationally known for his interest in educational work as art, Eisner believes that educational work as an expression of art allows individuals to look beyond and develop more creative and appropriate responses to the situations educators and their learners experience.

__The Kettering Project:__ Began in 1967, Provides curriculum materials for new and untrained elementary school teachers. __The Getty Center For Education in the Arts:__ "Discipline - Based Education" Four main disciplines: art production, art histroy, art criticsm and aesthetic inquiry.
 * Key Work:** Advocating moving beyond technocratic and behavorial modes of thinking. Concentration on individual expression. Eisner has insisted educators to concentrate and ask questions on the "basic" strategies in education. Eisner has argued that schools should help children create meaning from experience, requiring education to the senses and imagination. Eisner has argued that educational curriculums must not only concentrate on verbal learning, but look to non verbal means of expression.


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 * Why/How a shaker?** Eisner is asking educators to engage in a continuing exploration of themselves, others and their field of practice. Educators should be able to reflect in and on action, engage with feelings and be able to make informative and committed judgements. Eisner continues to preach that art is not limited to galleries, concert halls and theatres, art can be found wherever humans interact with life. Contibutions Eisner has made into the education world have been to highlight the importance of art in education systems and to bring insight into the process of remaking and re creating education.


 * Links: http://www.infed.org/thinkers/eisner.htm**