The Arts in Children's Lives

Context, Culture, and Curriculum
2002
ISBN: 978-1-4020-0554-1
Verlag: Springer Netherlands

Buch, Englisch, 250 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 233 mm, Gewicht: 396 g

Advocates for the arts have contributed significantly to the philosophy and practice of early and elementary education throughout its history. Yet the nature, value, and purpose of arts experiences in the lives of children seem to remain puzzling and problematic to those most directly involved in teaching the young.
Conversations between scholars and teacher educators in the arts and in education occur all too infrequently. Seventeen authors, whose work represents the best of contemporary research and theory on a constellation of issues concerning the role of the arts in children's lives and learning, address critical issues of development, context, and curriculum from perspectives informed by work with children in formal and informal settings. This anthology strives to reinvigorate dialogue on the role and significance of the arts in the education of children drawing on various cultural and institutional context and traditional and contemporary practices from different parts of the world.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Thompson, C. M.

Bresler, Liora

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Lehrerausbildung, Unterricht & Didaktik Allgemeine Didaktik Kunst, Musik, Theater (Unterricht & Didaktik)
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Kunstpsychologie und -soziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Altersgruppen Kinder- und Jugendsoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Context Interlude.- Children’s Contextual Art Knowledge: Local Art and School Art Context Comparisons.- What’s to be Learned? Comments on Teaching Music in the World and Teaching World Music at Home.- Becoming Japanese: Manga, Childern’s Drawings, and the Construction of National Character.- The Musical Cultures of Children.- Playing the Music — Comparing Performance of Children’s Song and Dance in Traditional and Contemporary Namibian Education.- Development Interlude.- We Begin as Poets.- Constructing an Artistic Self: A Cultural Perspective.- Early Childhood Musical Development.- Drawing Together: Peer Influence in Preschool-Kindergarten Art Classes.- Fictional Worlds and the Real World in Early childhood Drama Education.- Curriculum Interlude.- What We Teach is Who We are: The Stories of Our Lives.- School Art as a Hybrid Genre: Institutional Contexts for Art Curriculum.- Early Childhood Literacy Education, Wakefulness, and the Arts.- Pleasure, Creativity, and the Carnivalesque in Children’s Video Production.- Music Technology and the Young Child.