profiles and integrates the following elements of this rapidly emerging field: history, policy, learning, curriculum and instruction, assessment, and competing perspectives in art education.
Focuses on 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.
For all involved in teaching young children, this timely book offers the necessary tool with which to develop a broad, creative and inspirational visual arts program.
This 36-chapter handbook provides an overview of the progress made in history, policy, learning, curriculum and instruction, assessment, and competing perspectives in art education.
Includes: Suggested pacing, Vocabulary, Strategies for using text and images effectively, Inquiry-based activities to challenge learners,vAdditional background on art and artists, Compare and Contrast diagrams, Ideas for extending the lesson, Lesson resources at point-of-use, Large Reproduction and Overhead Transparency suggestions at point-of-use, Studio Evaluation criteria and more.
Helps early childhood professionals to present in-depth art experiences to children so that they become engrossed in expressing their ideas and newly learned concepts through art media.