The issue about art education and art curriculum should be interpreted the
aesthetic value and certain epistemology. For these reasons, there is no question
that Eisner's aesthetic epistemology should provide reasonable and practical base to
art curriculum in that the nature of art primarily interacts with the knowledge of
art. Eisner asserts that the modes of knowing or the process of knowing about
human is aesthetic. Furthermore, he has taken up the same position on art education.
On top of that, the aesthetic in education has two major contributions to make,
neither of which is yet a purposeful part of our educational agenda. First, it tells
us alxlUt the world in ways specific to its nature. Second, it provides the
experiential rewards of taking the journey itself. Eisner's assertion is that our
experience of the world is basically qualitative. In order to achieve a social
dimension in human experience, a means is demanded to carry what is private
forward into the public realm. Thls is achleved by employing forms of
representation. Forms of representation are the devices that humans use to make
public conceptions that are privately held. Education is the process of learning
how to invent yourself according to Eisner's phrase. To summarize, significant
discussions stated in this paper include as follows: discussing about aesthetic mode
of knowing and artistic cognition, enhancing artistic knowledge and cognitive
functions of the 311s, suggesting art-based integration education, aesthetic
experience based on aesthetic comloisseurshlp and aesthetic communication.