scholarly journals ART PRACTICE AS POSSIBLE WORLDS

2012 ◽  
Vol 3 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 198 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vanessa Clark

This paper explores the possibilities of arts practice in early childhood education. Building on her master’s thesis, the author presents both a doing – her experimentation with arts practice in two early childhood centres – and an argument: that art may present an opening onto possible worlds. The author builds these worlds in relation to her theoretical framework: an immanent relational materialist onto-epistemology. Viewed through this lens, art’s possible worlds have the potential to traverse, mix, and disrupt binaries that maintain marginalized positions. Art practice from this intersection of rupture is both intensely creative and deeply political.

2018 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 58-69 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liv Torunn Grindheim

The voices of both early childhood education teachers and children tend to be weak in the choir of agents that constitute the aims and practices of early childhood education. In this article, a video that a teacher made of four children playing dragons, followed by open-ended interviews exploring why she found this particular activity of interest and then open-ended interviews with the involved children while watching and commenting on the video, forms the basic material for discussing how children’s imaginative play can inform what might be valuable activities in early childhood education. The theoretical framework and concepts for analysis draw on an understanding of cultural formation and a cultural-historical approach that outlines children’s development through participation in activities framed by contextual conditions. By tracing conflicts caused by differences in the involved children’s values and motives while meeting conditions and demands in their context, at the personal, institutional and societal levels, the exploration of friendship, danger, space, institutional rooms and what good play ‘is’ are depicted in children’s imaginative role play. From this, imaginative play is seen as being endowed with valuable activities in early childhood education and forms a contrast to the emphasis on future academic competences that are far removed from the children’s experiences.


2012 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-26
Author(s):  
Vanessa Clark

This paper is an effort to explore arts in early childhood education and care. Drawing on the author’s master’s thesis, autoethnography is engaged to open up discussions of the politics and ethics of arts practice. This paper presents some common ways that art making is approached in the classroom and sug-gests some ways to disrupt these approaches. In conclusion, a useful tool is suggested to support this process of disruption.


2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 233-239
Author(s):  
Angela Gonzales Marinho ◽  
Gilmar De Azevedo

Resumo Este artigo reflete sobre a prática leitora-formativa com crianças e poesia na Educação Infantil no desenvolvimento de possibilidades desafiadoras na escola em praticar na infância o vínculo da leitura de poemas com sua potência enquanto possível realização da experiência poética. Objetiva refletir sobre práticas leitoras-formativas com poesias com as crianças em momentos lúdicos de interação, de desenvolvimento da oralidade, de amplificação de seu vocabulário, com os quais podem expressar seus desejos, sentimentos em consonância com o brincar com as palavras. Justifica-se a reflexão destas práticas no processo de ensino para aprendizagem com a poesia para as crianças no desenvolvimento da imaginação, expressão e sensibilidade, que suscitam nelas novas percepções cognitivas. Como metodologia, a prática foi de abordagem qualitativa na interpretação dos dados e bibliográfica na construção do Referencial Teórico foi realizada com crianças de 5 e 6 anos em Escola de Educação Infantil, com uma turma do jardim B, com os quais foram trabalhados poemas infantis de Caio Ritter. Como Referencial Teórico foram parceiros Abramovich (1989), Bachelard (1990), Georges Jean (1989), Lajolo (2006), Reyes (2010). Estas reflexões colaboram com os/as educadores/as para que desenvolvam, através da poesia na Literatura Infantil, o prazer nas leituras e audições de poemas e contação de histórias para que, no exercício da docência, se apropriem do conhecimento tanto literário quanto linguístico, a fim de fazer uso da palavra poética em espaços complexos de linguagem e de questionamentos acerca de suas próprias constituições como seres humanos. Palavras-chave: Prática-leitora-formativa; poesia; criança. Abstract This paper reflects on the reading-formative practice with children and poetry in Early Childhood Education in the development of challenging possibilities at school to practice in childhood the link of reading poems with its power as a possible realization of poetic experience. It aims to reflect on reading-formative practices with poetry with children in playful moments of interaction, oral development, expansion of their vocabulary, with which they can express their wishes, feelings in line with playing with words. It is justified to reflect on these practices in the teaching-learning process with poetry for children to develop their imagination, expression, and sensitivity, which raise new cognitive perceptions in them. As a methodology, the practice was of qualitative approach in the interpretation of data and bibliographic in the construction of the theoretical framework. The search was carried out with children of 5 and 6 years old in an Early Childhood Education School, with a group of Garden B, where children’s poems by Caio Ritter were studied. Abramovich (1989), Bachelard (1990), Georges Jean (1989), Lajolo (2006), Reyes (2010) were partners as theoretical framework. These reflections collaborate with educators to develop, through poetry in Children's Literature, the pleasure of reading and listening to poems and storytelling so that, in the exercise of teaching, they appropriate both literary and linguistic knowledge. In order to make use of the poetic word in complex spaces of language and questions about their own constitutions as human beings. Keywords: Reading-formative practice; poetry; kids. Resumen Este articulo reflexiona sobre la práctica lectora-formativa con niños/as y poesía en la Educación Infantil en el desarrollo de las posibilidades desafiadoras en la escuela para practicar en la niñez el vínculo con la lectura de poemas y con la experiencia poética. Objetiva reflexionar sobre las prácticas lectoras-formativas con poesías con niños y niñas en momentos lúdicos de integración, para el desarrollo de la oralidad, de la ampliación de su vocabulario, con los cuales pueden expresar sus deseos, sentimientos en consonancia con el juego con las palabras. Se justifica reflexionar sobre estas prácticas en el proceso de la enseñanza para el aprendizaje con la poesía para los niños y niñas en el desarrollo de la imaginación, expresión y sensibilidad, que dan lugar a nuevas percepciones cognitivas. La metodología fue el abordaje cualitativo en la interpretación de los datos y la revisión bibliográfica en la construcción del referencial teórico. La actividad se realizó con niños y niñas de 5 y 6 años de una escuela de Educación Infantil, con un grupo del jardín B, con los cuales fueron trabajados poemas infantiles de Caio Ritter. Con el referencial teórico colaboraron Abramovich (1989), Bachelard (1990), Georges Jean (1989), Lajolo (2006) y Reyes (2010). Estas reflexiones colaboraron con los/las profesores/as para que desarrollen, a través de la poesía en la literatura infantil, el placer en las lecturas, audiciones de poemas y “contar cuentos” de historias para que, en el ejercicio de la docencia, se apropien del conocimiento tanto literario como lingüístico, a fin de hacer uso de la palabra poética en espacios complejos de lenguaje y de cuestionamientos sobre sus propias constituciones como seres humanos. Palabras-claves: Práctica-habilidad lectora; niños/niñas; poesía.


2019 ◽  
pp. 892-910
Author(s):  
Hayriye Tuğba Öztürk ◽  
Lorina Calingasan

This study aimed to present best practices for robotics in early childhood education based on a case study. Positive Technological Development (PTD) framework was utilised as a theoretical framework suitable for robotics and children education studies. The developmentally appropriateness of the robotics resources for the children was also discovered to make recommendations for the educators. Since robotics in education is an emerging area, through evidence based findings, it is aimed to contribute to the effective use of robotics in education with presenting examples from the children's learning process with robotics.


Author(s):  
Hayriye Tuğba Öztürk ◽  
Lorina Calingasan

This study aimed to present best practices for robotics in early childhood education based on a case study. Positive Technological Development (PTD) framework was utilised as a theoretical framework suitable for robotics and children education studies. The developmentally appropriateness of the robotics resources for the children was also discovered to make recommendations for the educators. Since robotics in education is an emerging area, through evidence based findings, it is aimed to contribute to the effective use of robotics in education with presenting examples from the children's learning process with robotics.


Author(s):  
Elizabeth R. Wynberg ◽  
Annerieke Boland ◽  
Maartje E. J. Raijmakers ◽  
Chiel van der Veen

AbstractThe exploration and/or manipulation of objects and materials, referred to as object-oriented play (OOP), is one of the most prominent activities children engage in during early childhood. Especially within early childhood education, it is important to be able to assess and understand OOP, its developmental trajectory, and developmental value. This can support early childhood educators to successfully guide or enrich children’s OOP, so it becomes a context in which learning can take place. During the past decades, three dominant theoretical perspectives have explained and assessed certain (developmental) aspects of OOP: (1) genetic epistemology, (2) cultural historical psychology, and (3) evolutionary psychology. After reviewing the literature concerning OOP according to each theoretical perspective, this paper aims to synthesize these existing theories into a unified theoretical framework. This theoretical framework can be a starting point for future research on OOP in early childhood (education). We answer the following research questions: Q1. What are the defining labels and features of the exploration and/or manipulation of objects and materials by children in early childhood?; Q2. What is the developmental trajectory of the exploration and/or manipulation of objects and materials by children in early childhood?; Q3. What is the developmental value of the exploration and/or manipulation of objects and materials by children in early childhood?


1979 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 81-92
Author(s):  
Susan Freedman Gilbert

This paper describes the referral, diagnostic, interventive, and evaluative procedures used in a self-contained, behaviorally oriented, noncategorical program for pre-school children with speech and language impairments and other developmental delays.


1983 ◽  
Vol 28 (11) ◽  
pp. 874-875
Author(s):  
Joseph T. Lawton

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