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Elliot W. Eisner

American professor of Art and Education · United States · On the map · Academics · Lived 1933 to 2014 · aged 80

Elliot Wayne Eisner was a professor of Art and Education at the Stanford Graduate School of Education, and was one of the United States' leading academic minds.

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Awards

Grawemeyer Awards2005
Guggenheim Fellowship

About this person

He was active in several fields including arts education, curriculum reform, qualitative research, and was the recipient of a University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award in 2005 for his work in education as well as the Brock International Prize in 2004. In 1992, he became the recipient of the José Vasconcelos World Award of Education in recognition to his 30 years of scholarly and professional work, particularly his contribution in the formulation of educational policy to better understand the potential of the arts in the educational development of the young. He was the 1997 recipient of the Sir Herbert Read Award of the International Society for Education through Art (INSEA).

Country
United States
Category
Academics
Type
Academic
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1933 to 2014 · aged 80