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| Abstract Reasoning | 1 |
| Art Education | 1 |
| Child Development | 1 |
| Coding | 1 |
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| Creative Development | 1 |
| Creative Thinking | 1 |
| Creativity | 1 |
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| Educational Horizons | 3 |
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| Eisner, Elliot W. | 3 |
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Peer reviewedEisner, Elliot W. – Educational Horizons, 1985
It is the responsibility of the teachers to make education a creative experience. Education should give children opportunities to create multiple solutions to identical problems, teach children how to formulate questions and problems, and cultivate the ability to experience the world sensitively. (CT)
Descriptors: Art Education, Creative Development, Creative Thinking, Creativity
Peer reviewedEisner, Elliot W. – Educational Horizons, 1993
Visual learning, the capacity to construe meaning from visual images and to create meaningful visual forms, distills complex information and presents information directly. It plays an important role in development of the ability to abstract and decode. (SK)
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Coding, Cognitive Development, Sensory Integration
Peer reviewedEisner, Elliot W. – Educational Horizons, 1991
Literacy should not be limited to decoding written text. More broadly construed, education should address the many ways in which experience is represented, the development of cognitive potential, and differences in intellectual proclivities. The object should be cultivation of a broad capacity to construct meaning. (SK)
Descriptors: Child Development, Cognitive Development, Concept Formation, Educational Policy


