The Arts in Children's Lives

The Arts in Children's Lives
Author: Mary Renck Jalongo
Publisher: Allyn & Bacon
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1997
Genre: Aesthetics
ISBN: 9780205145676

The purpose of this book is to unify the arts into a holistic concept of aesthetic education for young children. The book's aims are: to convince teachers that the arts are for everyone--and essential to the daily curriculum; to show teachers how the arts build children's interest, motivation and learning in all subject areas; to demonstrate how teachers can draw on a wide array of arts resources to enrich their curriculum; and to address the developmentally appropriateness of arts activities and show how they support the goals of multicultural education. This book provides many examples of teachers who designed an arts-based curriculum and offers practical, concrete suggestions about evaluating children's growth in key areas of the arts: music and movement, art and craft, play and enactment. For professionals involved in the arts education of young children.

Enriching Arts Education through Aesthetics

Enriching Arts Education through Aesthetics
Author: Marina Sotiropoulou-Zormpala
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 134
Release: 2019-08-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0429603053

Enriching Arts Education through Aesthetics examines the use of aesthetic theory as the foundation to design and implement arts activities suitable for integration in school curricula in pre-school and primary school education. This book suggests teaching practices based on the connection between aesthetics and arts education and shows that this kind of integration promotes enriched learning experiences. The book explores how the core ideas of four main aesthetic approaches – the representationalist, the expressionist, the formalist, and the postmodernist – translate into respective ways of designing and implementing experiential aesthetics-based activities. Containing relevant examples of interventions used in classes, it analyzes the ways in which the combination of different aesthetic approaches can support varied, multifaceted, multimodal and balanced teaching situations in school. This innovative book will appeal to academics, researchers, professionals and students in the fields of arts education, early childhood and primary education and curriculum studies.

Communities of Practice: Art, Play, and Aesthetics in Early Childhood

Communities of Practice: Art, Play, and Aesthetics in Early Childhood
Author: Christopher M. Schulte
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 236
Release: 2018-01-08
Genre: Education
ISBN: 3319706446

Reflecting contemporary theory and research in early art education, this volume offers a comprehensive introduction to new ways of thinking about the place of art, play, and aesthetics in the lives and education of young children. Enlivened by narratives and illustrations, 16 authors offer perspectives on the lived experience of being a child and discovering the excitement of making meaning and form in the process of art, play, and aesthetic inquiry.

Echoes from a Child's Soul

Echoes from a Child's Soul
Author: Barbara A. Clark
Publisher: Imagination and Praxis: Critic
Total Pages: 156
Release: 2020
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9789004412705

"Echoes from a Child's Soul: Awakening the Moral Imagination of Children presents remarkable poetry inspired by aesthetic education methodology created by children that were labelled academically, socially, and/or emotionally at-risk. Many children deemed average or below-grade level composed poetry beyond their years revealing moral imagination. Art psychology and aesthetic methodology merge to portray the power of awakening children's voices once silenced. The children's poetry heralds critical and empathic messages for our future. This book proposes an overwhelming need for change in America's public-school education system so that no child is ignored, silenced, deemed less than, or marginalized"--

Children and Their Art

Children and Their Art
Author: Al Hurwitz
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1995
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780155015401

As a primary text for the courses in art methods for elementary education, or as a supplement to Discipline Based Art Education (DBAE) courses, Children and their Art provides a comprehensive resource for teaching art to children. Up-to-date discussions of child development in art, teaching methods, curriculum and evaluation, and professional practice include theory, practical application, suggested art activities. Features: * Recent research shows CHILDREN AND THEIR ART to be the leading text because it is comprehensive, provides a more aesthetically design, and because it is the most sensitive to current practice and theory. * Combines the classic depth and philosophical history of art education with a meticulous currency that continues to lead current practice. * Examples of children's art from around the world illustrate theory and application as it is discussed. New to this edition: * Drawing and painting, formerly one chapter, are now two separate chapters providing a stronger distinction between these two separate forms. * Coverage of special learners includes updated research. * Improved reproduction or artwork includes many new photographs and samples of children's art. *

The Visual Arts and Early Childhood Learning

The Visual Arts and Early Childhood Learning
Author: Christine Marmé Thompson
Publisher: National Art Education Association (NAEA)
Total Pages: 122
Release: 1995
Genre: Art
ISBN:

This anthology focuses on the earliest art expressions, experiences and encounters of young children in the educational setting. The 21 chapters include: (1) "The Visual Arts and Early Childhood Learning: Changing Contexts and Concepts" (Christine Marme Thompson); (2) "The Narrative Quality of Young Children's Art" (Marilyn Zurmuehlen; Larry Kantner); (3) "Significance of Adult Input in Early Childhood Artistic Development" (Anna M. Kindler); (4) "Art at Home: Learnings from a 'Suzuki' Education" (George Szekely); (5) "Preschool Children's Socialization through Art Experiences" (Patricia Tarr); (6) "The Case of the Easter Bunny: Art Instruction by Primary Grade Teachers" (Liora Bresler); (7) "Developmentally Appropriate Practice in Early Art Education" (Cynthia B. Colbert); (8)"A Portrait of an Early Childhood Art Teacher" (Elizabeth Smith Cole); (9) "Liberating Art Experiences for Preschoolers and their Teachers" (Kathryn Gaspar): (10) "Birthdays, Children, and Art: Museums as Meaningful Places for Young Children" (Priscilla Lund; Sandy Osborne); (11) "The Picture Museum: Creating a Photography Museum with Children" (Suzanne Kolodziej); (12) "A Bunch of Naked Ladies and a Tiger: Children's Responses to Adult Works of Art" (Marianne S. Kerlavage); (13) "Art Historical Understanding in Early Childhood" (Mary Erickson); (14) "Understanding Young Children's Ways of Interpreting their Experiences through Participant Observation" (Mary Stokrocki); (15) "Art Criticism with Young Children Experiencing Developmental Delays" (Karen Kakas); (16) "Language and Learning About Art" (Connie Newton): (17) "Art Education and Children's Literature: An Interdisciplinary Approach for Preschool Children" (Florence S. Mitchell); (18) "Early Education in Geography and Art: A Focus on Spatial Ability and Visual Skill" (Joanne K. Guilfoil); (19) "A Cross-cultural Study of Partial Occlusion in Children's Drawings" (Chun-Min Su); (20) "Educating the Artistically Gifted Student in Early Childhood" (Andra L. Nyman); and (21) "Multiculturalism and the Tender Years: Big and Little Questions" (Elizabeth Manley Delacruz). Each article contains references. The work concludes with notes about the contributing authors. (MM)

Everyday Artists

Everyday Artists
Author: Dana Frantz Bentley
Publisher: Teachers College Press
Total Pages: 161
Release: 2015-04-25
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0807772062

For the young child, art is a way of solving problems, conceptualizing the world, and creating new possibilities. In Everyday Artists, the author addresses the disconnect that exists between the teaching of art and the way young children actually experience art. In doing so, this book questions commonly held notions and opens up exciting new possibilities for art education in the early childhood classroom. A practicing teacher herself, Bentley uses vignettes of children’s everyday activities—from block building to clean-up to outdoor play—to help teachers identify and scaffold the genuine artistic practice of young children. Book Features: Tangible examples of everyday arts experiences told through lively classroom stories.An examination of the teacher’s role with suggestions of appropriate ways to support children’s artistic expression.Clear explanations of how inquiry and creativity contribute to the overall thinking and learning of the young child.A “Voice of the Teacher” section that offers teaching strategies for extending children’s thinking and learning.A wide-range of ideas for teachers who feel they do not know how to “do” art. Dana Frantz Bentley is a teacher researcher and preschool teacher at Buckingham Browne and Nichols School in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She received a Doctorate of Education, Art, and Art Education from Teachers College, Columbia University. “Much has been written about the role of the arts in education, especially about the importance of the arts to early childhood learning. Dana Frantz Bentley endows the arts with an additional and central kind of significance rooted in a broad conception of cognition.” —From the Foreword by Judith M. Burton, Teachers College, Columbia University “Like the young children she describes, Dana Frantz Bentley is an ‘everyday artist,’ making something ‘beautiful’ of her informed and thoughtful pedagogy. There is much to learn from the artful reflection and generative inquiry of this inspired early childhood educator.” —Jessica Hoffmann Davis, author of Why Our Schools Need the Arts

Young Children and the Arts

Young Children and the Arts
Author: Carol Korn-Bursztyn
Publisher: IAP
Total Pages: 238
Release: 2012-04-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1617357456

Young Children and the Arts: Nurturing Imagination and Creativity examines the place of the arts in the experiences of young and very young children at home and in out-of-home settings at school and in the community. There is great need for development of resources in the arts specifically designed to introduce babies and toddlers to participatory experiences in the visual arts, dance, music, and storytelling/theater. This book presents valuable guidelines for early childhood teachers, families, caregivers and community organizations. Young Children and the Arts presents a comprehensive approach to the arts that is aligned with early childhood developmentally appropriate practice and that combines an exploratory, materials-based approach with an aesthetic-education approach for children from birth to eight years of age. It addresses both how the arts are foundational to learning, and how teachers and parents can nurture young children’s developing imagination and creativity. The models presented emphasize a participatory approach, introducing young children to the arts through activities that call for engagement, initiative and creative activity. Additionally, Young Children and the Arts addresses the intersection of early childhood education and the arts—at points of convergence, and at moments of tension. The role of families and communities in developing and promoting arts suffused experiences for and with young children are addressed. Young Children and the Arts examines the role of innovative arts policy in supporting a broad-based early arts program across the diverse settings in which young children and their families live, work, and learn.

The Development of Aesthetic Experience

The Development of Aesthetic Experience
Author: Malcolm Ross
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2014-05-20
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1483160637

Curriculum Issues in Arts Education, Volume 3: The Development of Aesthetic Experience focuses on the processes, methodologies, and approaches involved in the development of aesthetic experience, including art education, developmental theories, and aesthetic assessment. The book first tackles the concept of aesthetic development and aesthetic dimension in art education. The text then explores the psychological viewpoint of aesthetic development and aesthetic development in music. Topics include music education, music and function, task of teachers, developmental relationships between processes or roles, and uses and misuses of developmental theories. The publication ponders on the role of teachers and students, aesthetic development in dance, and drama as learning, art, and aesthetic experience. The manuscript then examines emotional development in adolescence, meaning in aesthetic experience, and aesthetic assessment and the reliability factor. The book is a reliable source of information for educators and readers interested in the development of aesthetic experience.