ABSTRACT
Featuring the work of leading scholar-practitioners, Visual Arts with Young Children raises critical questions about the situated nature of the visual arts and its education in early childhood. Innovative chapters explore the relationship of place to art practice and pedagogy, culturally-responsive and justice-oriented perspectives, as well as critical and reconceptualist approaches to materials, technology and media. Ideal for researchers and students of both early childhood education and arts integration programs, this volume is an essential step towards a deeper understanding of how visual arts are understood, valued and practiced in the early years.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 1|13 pages
Reconceptualizing Early Childhood Art As Entanglement
Playing with chalk in the home
chapter 3|14 pages
Choreographies of Practice
Mutualities and sympoetic becomings in early childhood teacher education
chapter 6|12 pages
Earthworks in the School Playground
Cultivating an “arts of attentiveness” with children’s (art)making practices
chapter 8|11 pages
Play Pockets in Kindergartens
On framing blurred practices with art, pedagogy, and play
chapter 10|16 pages
Seeing the World to Hear It
A case study of young children learning to listen through visual observation
chapter 11|20 pages
Wow, We’re Stepping on the Weeds
Animation and aliveness in children’s classroom drawing(s)
chapter 12|10 pages
Beyond the Single Story of Childhood
Recognizing childism in art education practice
