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Baker, David W. – Design for Arts in Education, 1990
Explores art education for young children, emphasizing developmentally appropriate programs that integrate art activities with children's daily experiences rather than impose adult notions about art. Recognizes school and home environment's influence on developing children's visual activity and skill. Advocates that classroom teachers take more…
Descriptors: Art Activities, Art Education, Art Teachers, Child Development
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Johnson, Margaret H. – School Arts, 1990
Explores the value of teaching art criticism and aesthetics to young children. Maintains that critical aesthetic experience reinforces such experiences in art production. Outlines seven methods to develop aesthetic language and shows how art criticism and aesthetics can be used by visiting a gallery or museum. (KM)
Descriptors: Aesthetic Education, Aesthetic Values, Art Activities, Art Appreciation
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McKay, Roberta A.; Kendrick, Maureen E. – Canadian Journal of Research in Early Childhood Education, 2001
Explored images that young children construct of literacy in their lives, both inside and outside of school. Analysis of the drawings of 48 children in grades 1-3 revealed a shift in the children's images of themselves in relation to literacy with each grade level. The influence of home and family on literacy behaviors was also noted. (Author/TJQ)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Beginning Writing, Childhood Attitudes, Childrens Art
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Park, Eundeok; Bin, I. – Visual Arts Research, 1995
Analyzes the research strategies, stimuli, subjects, statistical strategies, and relative variables in 34 empirical studies on children's representation of three-dimensional objects. The studies fell into three categories: children's representation of spatial relationships within an object, between two objects, and studies that included both. (MJP)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Art Activities, Art Education, Art Expression
McNamee, Abigail S.; De Chiara, Edith – 1996
Children experience a wide variety of life experiences that are stressful to them. Children's stories and drawings allow adults to understand children's perceptions and reactions, and picture books enable children to experience stressors safely in a supportive setting. This paper describes a storytelling and drawing intervention based on art…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Art Therapy, Bibliotherapy, Childrens Art
Zurmuehlen, Marilyn, Ed. – Working Papers in Art Education, 1990
This publication presents manuscripts and research reports by graduate students. Accompanying papers from their mentors establish a context for the student papers. In this double volume the works are organized by sponsoring university. Student papers presented are: (1) "Looking, Talking, and Experiencing Art with Preschoolers" (Shari…
Descriptors: Aesthetic Values, Art, Art Criticism, Art Education
Wyatt, Helen; And Others – 1986
To help children better understand and exert control over the use of narrative language, teachers need not only to devote time to children's literature, but also need to emphasize other narrative forms including the mass media and children's own stories (in their talk, writing, drawing, and play). Giving children experience in mass media…
Descriptors: Childrens Art, Childrens Literature, Creative Writing, Educational Media
Spanish Curricula Development Center, Miami Beach, FL. – 1974
Music forms the core of the second unit of a fine arts program in Spanish for first graders. With instructional and evaluation activities built around the family, kits five through eight, each designed for two to three weeks of instruction, use songs as a basis for dramatizations, drawing, and dancing. Each kit includes music, lyrics, graphic…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Childrens Art, Cultural Education, Dance
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Schiller, Marjorie – Art Education, 1995
Maintains that there is increasing interest in the approach to art education in the Reggio Emilia schools in northern Italy. Describes the Emilia approach to early childhood education and characterizes it as child-centered and emergent. Includes a dialogue between a teacher and students using the approach. (CFR)
Descriptors: Art Education, Childrens Art, Classroom Techniques, Cognitive Processes
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Merz, Thya – Montessori Life, 1996
Presents advice on how Montessori elementary teachers can create a vital arts program in the classroom. Promotes literacy in artistic language, the importance of visual observation, and the importance of teachers educating themselves. Provides a materials list and artwork suggestions for teachers, including creating a visual journal, drawing,…
Descriptors: Aesthetic Values, Art, Art Activities, Art Appreciation
Armistead, Mary E. – 1996
Studies indicate that arts education improves math learning in early elementary years, promotes significant cognitive gains, supports discovery, and builds knowledge. This conference paper indicates the importance of the arts in early education curriculum and provides an innovative way for teachers to bring constructivism into the classroom. It…
Descriptors: Aesthetic Education, Art Activities, Art Appreciation, Art Education
Guerrero, Frank; And Others – 1988
The Children's Art Carnival (CAC) Creative Reading Program, a community arts and educational organization, combines instruction in reading with art activities. Operating in sites in Manhattan and Queens, New York, the program served 294 second to sixth grade students during the 1986-1987 school year. Students who scored poorly on the Degrees of…
Descriptors: Art Education, Childhood Attitudes, Childrens Art, Disadvantaged Youth
Idaho State Dept. of Education, Boise. – 1978
Over 80 art activities for elementary school students are presented in this curriculum guide. Introductory sections define the roles of school superintendents, principals, art supervisors, and art teachers in supporting art programs; outline goals of an art curriculum; review developmental stages of children's art skills from age two through 13;…
Descriptors: Art Activities, Art Appreciation, Art Education, Art Materials
Mardell, Ben – 2002
As the numbers of children enrolled in child care from infancy have increased, there is a growing acceptance of this now prevailing mode of childrearing. Asserting that the "necessary evil" perception of child care contributes to the mediocrity of the American child care system, this book contends that this characterization is misguided…
Descriptors: Art Activities, Attitude Change, Caregiver Child Relationship, Child Care
Cadwell, Louise Boyd – 1997
This book is a collection of stories describing the Reggio Emilia approach to early childhood education, based on the author's internship in the Italian preschools and a 4-year adaptation effort in one American school. The book's prologue describes the author's work before using the Reggio Emilia approach, the history of Reggio Emilia, the…
Descriptors: Childrens Art, Childrens Writing, Classroom Design, Early Childhood Education
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