Professor Elliot W. Eisner

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This paper briefly covers the educational background of Elliot W. Eisner, professor of Education at and art at Stanford University. The paper goes on to review Eisner's theory about the role of ideologies in the educational system, the primary aims that Eisner believes schools should incorporate into their curriculum, and the views expressed in Eisner's book "The Kind of School We Need."

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"Eisner believes that all students should access to the arts in schools, and stresses the importance of including arts in the curriculum. Due to the fact that the school curriculum tells the students is important to learn, students that do not have arts in the curriculum will not see arts as something of importance. This will, ultimately, stunt their cultural growth."

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