Full Description
CREATIVE ACTIVITIES AND CURRICULUM FOR YOUNG CHILDREN, Twelfth Edition, is written for anyone who wants to deepen their understanding of creative and aesthetic development, the importance of arts experiences in childhood, supporting creativity in children, expanding creative approaches to teaching and integrating creativity across the curriculum. Whether you're an early childhood teacher, caregiver or administrator or a pre-service or in-service pre-K to Grade 5 teacher, this text is an invaluable resource you can turn to again and again. Covering a wide range of content areas encountered in early childhood and elementary classrooms, the text promotes creativity in children and encourages you to exercise your own creativity. The research-based theoretical foundation is applied through hundreds of practical activities. Updated throughout, the Twelfth Edition features research into theories of brain development and their application to daily practice, new topics in the Spotlight and Think About It features, recommendations for children's books that support activities and exploration and current information regarding the use of digital technology. The authors have more thoroughly integrated culturally responsive practice throughout the text, including broader consideration of how to accommodate and adapt activities and experiences for children with special needs or non-typical development. In addition, chapters have been reorganized to reflect a more natural sequence of topics to help you master even complex concepts more readily.
Contents
PART I: Creativity, Aesthetics, Art, and Development.
1. Creativity: Theories, Definition and Importance in the Early Childhood Environment.
2. Aesthetics: Theories, Definition and Importance in the Early Childhood Environment.
3. Arts and Physical-Cognitive Development.
4. Arts and Creative Development.
5. Arts and Social-Emotional Development.
PART II: Considerations for Art and Creativity in Early Childhood Program Development—Curriculum, Goals, Strategies and Materials.
6. Foundations of Creative Activities.
7. Foundations of Creative Environments.
8. Play and Creativity.
9. Technology and Creativity.
10. Creativity and Program Basics.
PART III: Creative Activities Integrated Throughout the Early Childhood Environment.
11. Two-Dimensional Activities.
12. Three-Dimensional Activities.
13. Performance Activities: Dramatic Play, Music and Movement.
14. Creative Language Experiences.
15. Creative Science.
16. Creative Mathematics.
17. Creative Social Studies.
APPENDICES.
A. Gross- and Fine-Motor Skills.
B. Language Development Objectives and Activities for Infants and Toddlers.
C. Art Talk Summary.
D. Exhibitions and Displays.
E. Recycled Materials.
Glossary.
Index.
