The Creative Arts: A Process Approach for Teachers and Children

Description: Excellent condition - please see photos. Item shown is the one you'll receive. This unique book engages future teachers in the processes of creativity to encourage creative growth and participation in their classrooms. It emphasizes process, rather than product, so teachers learn that once they tap into their own creativity they are better equipped to help children participate in the creative process. The author's goal is to shift readers from depending on prescribed activities and products to a more secure awareness of everyone's ability to participate in the creative process, regardless of the product. Discusses noteworthy studies in music and movement, art, creative dramatics, and literature. Highlights the potential of multicultural arts as a resource for creative expression and awareness. Includes a section on national standards for visual and performing arts and the President's committee on the arts and humanities. Addresses the eight intelligence (naturalist) and discusses all eight intelligences in each chapter. For future teachers of the creative arts.New to This Edition Many changes and major revisions to the third edition provide a comprehensive look at the creative arts and how the arts can expand our understanding of the teaching and learning process.New Content Coverage Exploring the arts through a multicultural context The arts are ideally suited to address the wonderful diversity of children in today's schools. The arts provide teachers with a multicultural avenue for seeing diversity from viewpoints that may be different from our own and also give us some of the tools we need to meet the different learning modalities of children. A new focus on viewing the arts through a multicultural context is included in this third edition to highlight its great potential as a resource for creative expression and awareness of the diversity of global arts. Contemporary theories and models This third edition is made more complete by expanded coverage of Lev Vygotsky and Rhoda Kellogg. Vygotsky's work provides a foundation for understanding the social formation of learning. Kellogg's research is noteworthy in that she studied over a million pieces of children's drawings that she collected from around the world. As a result, she identified several stages of development that are universal to all children. National standards for art education The section on national standards for the visual and performing arts provides more in-depth coverage on wiry we must look to these standards as challenges for bringing the arts back into the mainstream of essential subject areas. It also addresses how we, as teachers and teacher educators, are in a unique position to do just that. In addition, new coverage on the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities is included, which addresses the interconnection between the arts, culture, and democracy. Multiple intelligences theory Since the publication of the second edition, Howard Gardner has expanded his theory of multiple intelligences to include an eighth intelligence: naturalist intelligence. This eighth intelligence is addressed in this new edition and includes a section on how we, as teachers, can support naturalist intelligence in the classroom. Gardner's eight intelligences provide a framework for approaching multiple intelligences theory and the implications of this theory for creative arts education. Each chapter also presents an area of multiple intelligences theory in concert with creative arts contents. For example, the chapter on creative drama is grounded in interpersonal and intrapersonal intelligences. Research More than ever before, research studies and theoretical contributions provide a comprehensive view of why the arts are an integral component of education for all learners, especially children. To accurately reflect this growth, current and relevant research is included in this new edition to provide the foundation for continued study of the arts. Practical articles and references to which teachers can refer for additional information are also provided. Margin notes The book also supports your learning through the use of margin notes that provide suggestions and alternative ways for reinforcing and enriching your learning. These are particularly helpful for outside assignments; extended research; classroom arrangement; individual, cooperative, and large-group activities; and as suggestions for establishing professional contacts with artists outside the field of education. I hope you will find this third edition of The Creative Arts: A Process Approach for Teachers and Children an informative and challenging approach to your role as a facilitator of the creative arts process in your own child-centered school arena. If you are new to teaching, you will find avenues for structuring your first classroom environment to create an inviting atmosphere in which your children will have not only the freedom but also the permission to explore the process of creativity through many art forms. For those of you who are experienced teachers, I hope this book will give you the courage to break away from the old confines of having all children draw, make, move, or create the same thing at the same time. You will be encouraged to view the arts as an orchestral score, with much room for interpretation. This view of the creative arts provides an endless range for educators to contribute to the development of each child's inherent artistic potential. Whether we are aspiring teachers, seasoned educators, day-care providers, or college professors, we need to be open to examining a significant departure from the way creative arts are typically taught in teacher education programs, and we need to recognize the role of the adult in facilitating children's development as artists and as creative thinkers.I offer combined shipping (additional items ship at no charge) as well as volume discounts on anything purchased from me. To receive these discounts, you must use the cart and pay for all items together.

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