Making meaning: constructing multimodal perspectives of language, literacy, and learning through arts-based early childhood education

Making Meaning is a synthesis of theory, research, and practice that explicitly presents art as a meaning making process. This book provokes readers to examine their current understandings of language, literacy and learning through the lens of the various arts-based perspectives offered in this volume; provides a starting point for constructing broader, multimodal views of what it mightmean to ‘make meaning’; and underscores why understanding arts-based learningas a meaning-making process is especially critical to early childhood education in the face of narrowly-focused, test-driven curricular reforms. Each contributor integrates this theory and research with stories of how passionate teachers, teacher-educators, and pre-service teachers, along with administrators, artists, and professionals from a variety of fields have transcended disciplinary boundaries to engage the arts as a meaning-making process for young children and for themselves. Challenges the early childhood education community to reexamine beliefs about art Provides a broader understanding of the responsibilities of early childhood education in regard to arts learning Demonstrates thereleveancy of arts research to current issues in early childhood education Provides accessible entry points by relating arts research to early childhood education professionals INDICE: Broadening Perspectives on Language, Lieteracy, and Learning in Early Childhood.- Young Children’s Language and Literacy: Giving Back ‘The Hundred Languages of Children’.- Studio Thinking in Early Childhood.- A Circle of Friends: Building Inclusive Classrooms through the Arts.- Examining the ‘Why’ of Multicultural Arts for Young Children: Framing the Big Picture.- Possible Boundaries and Boundless Possibilities: The Teacher-Artist Relationship in an Early Childhood Pre-School Partnership Project.- Reciprocal Roles of the Early Childhood Teacher and the Museum Educator in Constructing the Young Children’s Art Experiences.- The Ability to ‘Think Amoeba’: What Early Childhood Administrators Need to Support Arts Learning in Today’s Schools.- Empowering Pre-Service Teachers to Design a Classroom Environment that Serves as a Third Teacher.-Learning to See the Boa Constrictor Digesting the Elephant: Pre-service Teachers Construct Perspectives of Art in Early Childhood Classrooms.

• ISBN: 978-0-387-87537-8
• Editorial: Springer
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 265
• Fecha Publicación: 01/11/2008
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés