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Elliot W. Eisner is the Lee L. Jacks Professor of Education and professor of art at Stanford University. He works in three fields: arts education, curriculum studies and qualitative research methods. He has been especially interested in advancing the role of the arts in American education and in using the arts as models for improving educational practice in other fields. Elliot is a fellow of the Royal Society of Art in the United Kingdom, the Royal Norwegian Society of Arts and Sciences, and in the United States, the National Academy of Education.
He has served as president of the NAEA, the International Society for Education Through Art, the American Educational Research Association and the John Dewey Society.
He is the author or editor of 16 books addressing arts education topics, among them Educating Artistic Vision, The Educational Imagination, The Enlightened Eye, Cognition and Curriculum, The Kind of Schools We Need and, most recently, The Arts and the Creation of Mind. He has lectured on education throughout the world.
Elliot has received many prestigious awards for his work, among them a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, a Senior Fulbright Fellowship, the Jose Vasconcelos Award from the World Cultural Council, the Harold McGraw Prize in Education, the Brock International prize in Education and the Grawemeyer Award in Education from the University of Louisville. In addition, he has received six honorary doctorates from institutions around the world.
Elliot received his doctorate from the University of Chicago. He was trained as a painter at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and studied design and art education at the Institute of Design at the Illinois Institute of Technology.
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The Intrinsic Value of the Arts
