The Arts in ChildrenỚ"s Lives Context, Culture, and Curriculum /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Bresler, Liora. (Editor), Thompson, Christine Marm©♭. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2002.
• Subjects: Education.; Art education.; International education.; Comparative education.; Curriculums (Courses of study).; Education > Curricula.; Arts Education.; Curriculum Studies.; International and Comparative Education.
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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 te...

Table of Contents:

• Context Interlude
• ChildrenỚ"s Contextual Art Knowledge: Local Art and School Art Context Comparisons
• WhatỚ"s to be Learned? Comments on Teaching Music in the World and Teaching World Music at Home
• Becoming Japanese: Manga, ChildernỚ"s Drawings, and the Construction of National Character
• The Musical Cultures of Children
• Playing the Music Ớ Comparing Performance of ChildrenỚ"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 ChildrenỚ"s Video Production
• Music Technology and the Young Child.