The Arts in Children's Lives
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Researchers and practitioners in education and various arts explore the role and significance of the arts in the education of children from ages three through eight. The 15 studies offer balanced coverage of the cultural contexts of early arts experiences, how children's abilities to participate in particular art forms develop and evolve, and art experiences that are artistically authentic and developmentally appropriate. They include literature as one of the arts. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR Booknews Researchers and practitioners in education and various arts explore the role and significance of the arts in the education of children from ages three through eight. The 15 studies offer balanced coverage of the cultural contexts of early arts experiences, how children's abilities to participate in particular art forms develop and evolve, and art experiences that are artistically authentic and developmentally appropriate. They include literature as one of the arts. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Foreword1Prelude5IContext Interlude91Children's contextual art knowledge: Local art and school art context comparisons152What's to be learned? Comments on teaching music in the world and teaching world music at home293Becoming Japanese: Manga, children's drawings, and the construction of national character434The musical cultures of children575Playing the music: Comparing children's song and dance in Namibian education71IIDevelopment Interlude876We begin as poets: Conceptual tools and the arts in early childhood937Constructing an artistic self: A cultural perspective1018Early childhood musical development1139Drawing together: Peer influence in preschool-kindergarten art classes12910Fictional worlds and the real world in early childhood drama education139IIICurriculum Interlude15311What we teach is who we are: The stories of our lives15712School art as a hybrid genre: Institutional contexts for art curriculum16913Early childhood literacy education, wakefulness, and the arts18514Pleasure, creativity, and the carnivalesque in children's video production19515Music technology and the young child215Afterwords237List of Contributors239Name Index245
