“Exploring the Dimensions of Schooling through Educational Connoisseurship: A Critique of Three Artifacts”

Educational Connoisseurship 
If you were a connoisseur of wine, preparing to compose a criticism (which is not only a negative assessment remember; Dewey said “the end of criticism is the reeducation of the perception of the work” (as quoted in Eisner, 1977, p. 347), you would first have to begin with a description. This description of the wine – all of its qualities – would send you on a hunt for books, and experts, that could help you understand what you had described, why it is the way that it is.
As a connoisseur, and eventual critic, of education, you have to begin with a description. In chapter 4 Eisner describes five dimensions of schooling: intentional, structural, curricular, pedagogical, and evaluative. Choose three of these dimensions and aim for about 2 pages (double-spaced) for each (six pages, total plus title and reference page), in which you both 1) write a description of an artifact and 2) make connections to Eisner’s definitions of the dimensions (using direct, APA-formatted quotes from the text). Each dimension should have its own artifact.