Eisner's Art Education Theory Eisner is an American children's art educator. He believes that the main value of art education lies in its unique contribution to personal experience. Children's art ability is not the result of natural growth, but the result of learning art courses designed by teachers that are beneficial to children. Advocate the use of rigorous art courses to realize the self-value of art. This course includes art history, art criticism and art creation. Therefore, the goal of art education is to help children understand the role of art in cultural development, develop their aesthetic ability, and make them create artistic works with aesthetic feeling and expressive force. Eisner's art education theory is regarded as essentialism, also known as "discipline-based education" (DBAE for short). /kloc-after the 1960s, essentialism became the mainstream.