The Enlightened Eye: Qualitative Inquiry and the Enhancement of Educational Practice, Reissued with a New Prologue and Foreword

by Elliot W. Eisner, Nel Noddings

Overview

Now available from TC Press with a new foreword by Nel Noddings and a new prologue by P. Bruce Uhrmacher and Christy McConnell Moroye, this classic text on qualitative research is ideal for both novice and established researchers. Eisner’s seminal work on mind, education, and research explores the ways in which the methods, content, and assumptions in the arts, humanities, and social sciences can help us better understand our schools and classrooms. The Enlightened Eye expands how we think about inquiry in education and broadens our views about what it means to “know” with the goal of positively influencing the educational experience of those who live and work in our schools. The text includes examples depicting this type of research and how it can be used to evaluate teaching, learning, and the school environment.

Book Features:

• Provides researchers with ethical frameworks promoting diversity and inclusivity.
• Establishes connections between qualitative inquiry in our daily lives and its functions in the practice and study of education.
• Broadens understanding of how we come to know the world.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780807758243
Publisher:	Teachers College Press
Publication date:	02/24/2017
Pages:	288
Sales rank:	560,342
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Elliot W. Eisner (deceased) is an esteemed educational researcher and pioneer in qualitative inquiry and arts-based research. He was professor emeritus of education and art at Stanford University.

Table of Contents

Foreword Nel Noddings ix

Prologue P. Bruce Uhrmacher Christy McConnell Moroye xi

A Word of Thanks xvii

Introduction 1

1 Qualitative Thought and Human Understanding 9

2 What Makes a Study Qualitative? 27

3 Objectivity and Subjectivity in Qualitative Research and Evaluation 43

4 Educational Connoisseurship 63

5 Educational Criticism 85

6 Validity in Educational Criticism 107

7 A Closer Look at Educational Criticism 121

8 The Meaning of Method in Qualitative Inquiry 169

9 Do Qualitative Case Studies Have Lessons to Teach? 197

10 Ethical Tensions, Controversies, and Dilemmas in Qualitative Research 213

11 Looking Ahead: Preparing Qualitative Researchers 227

References 247

Index 257

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

“The Enlightened Eye, without dismissing technical-scientific studies, describes the benefits of qualitative research in some depth. It aims to open our eyes, pique our imagination, and encourage critical thought. With enhanced perception, reflection, and imagination, researchers and practitioners are better positioned to work collaboratively toward richer forms of education.”
—From the foreword by Nel Noddings, professor emerita, Stanford University

"Elliot Eisner was the most important art educator of his generation, and a true heir to John Dewey. In this splendid synthesis of his original work in the areas of art, curriculum, and education, Eisner presents a carefully reasoned, candid, and eloquent brief on behalf of qualitative forms of educational inquiry."
—Howard Gardner, Harvard University