ERIC Number: EJ1189487
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2017
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Listening for Stories: Childhood Studies and Art Education
Thompson, Christine Marmé
Studies in Art Education: A Journal of Issues and Research in Art Education, v58 n1 p7-16 2017
Reflecting on two events documented in early childhood art classes as representative narratives of the possible, I present a case for the adoption of a childhood studies perspective in contemporary art education research and teaching. Moving beyond outmoded and unreliable developmental understandings, and becoming aware of the influence of prevailing social constructions of childhood on adult interpretations of children's engagements, teachers and researchers may begin to recognize children as competent social beings entangled in a shifting series of relationships within the performative spaces of the art classroom.
Descriptors: Story Telling, Art Education, Art, Early Childhood Education, Art Teachers, Freehand Drawing
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: Early Childhood Education
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Language: English
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