Understanding Creativity in Early Childhood: Meaning-Making and Children?s Drawi

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Creativity is a key theme in early childhood studies at the moment and is increasingly highlighted in all manner of early childhood academic courses. This book will form the link between creativity and literacy with concrete examples of children′s meaning making, as well as offering a protocol for students to follow.

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Do you want to understand young children's development in greater depth? Would you like to see how they view the world around them, and what they think the future might look like?Creativity in early childhood is an area of fascination for all those working with young children, and this book investigates why children create, and what their creations mean. Chapters describe the processes and depict the outcomes of meaning-making, and of making room for children's voices through the open-ended activity of drawing. Issues examined include:- the increasingly popular use of multi-modal texts; - links between creativity and literacy; - the importance of art in early childhood; - concrete examples of children's meaning-making, from the author's research.We see how non-verbal and verbal communication is used to convey meaning, and how children's voices emerge; the important role imagination and narrative play in the early and continuing development of children is emphasized throughout the book. Ideal for students of early childhood, and for anyone working with young children, this book is a revelatory guide to the mind of the young child.

Author Biography

Susan Kay Wright is the Head of the Early Childhood and Special Educational Needs division at the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

Table of Contents

Creativity: Meaning-Making and RepresentationSurfacing the Voices of Children: The Role of the InterlocutorIntratextuality in Drawing-TellingDrawing and EmbodimentIntertextuality: Borrowing with a Personal StampAncient Forms: New WorldsImplications for Teaching

Review

′[This book] features concrete examples of children′s meaning-making and is an attempt to...further understand children′s development in greater depth and also to see how they view the world around them′ - Early Years Educator ′This will be an important ′seminal′ text for many years in the early childhood field. Wright′s work is based on her extensive research and work with young children, and her passion for this aspect of children′s learning and development is evident throughout the text′ - Dr Catherine Meehan, Senior Lecturer and Programme Director of BA (Hons) Early Childhood Studies, Canterbury Christ Church University

Review Quote

'This will be an important 'seminal' text for many years in the early childhood field. Wright's work is based on her extensive research and work with young children, and her passion for this aspect of children's learning and development is evident throughout the text' - Dr Catherine Meehan, Senior Lecturer and Programme Director of BA (Hons) Early Childhood Studies, Canterbury Christ Church University

Details ISBN1847875254 Author Susan Wright Year 2010 ISBN-10 1847875254 ISBN-13 9781847875259 Format Hardcover Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 372.52 Short Title UNDERSTANDING CREATIVITY IN EA Language English Media Book Pages 200 Illustrations Illustrations Publication Date 2010-02-16 UK Release Date 2010-02-16 NZ Release Date 2010-02-16 Subtitle Meaning-Making and Children′s Drawing Alternative 9781847875266 Audience Professional & Vocational Publisher Sage Publications Ltd Imprint Sage Publications Ltd AU Release Date 2010-02-15 We've got this

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