Exploring Children's Creative Narratives
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Exploring Children's Creative Narratives

  1. 260 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

Exploring Children's Creative Narratives

About this book

How should we understand children's creativity?

This fascinating collection of international research offers fresh perspectives on children's creative processes and the expression of their creative imagination through dramatic play, stories, artwork, dance, music and conversation.

Drawing on a range of research evidence from innovative educational initiatives in a wide variety of countries, Exploring Children's Creative Narratives develops new theoretical and practical insights that challenge traditional thinking about children's creativity. The chapters, written by well-respected international contributors:

  • offer new conceptual and interpretive frameworks for understanding children's creativity

  • contest conventional discourses about the origins and nature of creativity

  • challenge the view that young children's creativity can only be judged in terms of their creative output

  • explore the significance children themselves attribute to their creative activity

  • argue the need for a radical reappraisal of the influence of the sociocultural context on children's creative expression

  • discuss the implications of this research in relation to teacher education and curriculum design.

This broad yet coherent compilation of research on creativity in childhood is essential reading for students, researchers and policy makers in early childhood as well as for Early Years professionals with a particular interest in creativity.

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Yes, you can access Exploring Children's Creative Narratives by Dorothy Faulkner, Elizabeth Coates, Dorothy Faulkner,Elizabeth Coates in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Education & Early Childhood Education. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2011
Print ISBN
9780415565639
eBook ISBN
9781136739552
Topic
Education
Subtopic
Early Childhood Education

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. List of figures, tables and plates
  8. List of contributors
  9. Foreword
  10. Acknowledgements
  11. 1 Exploring children's creative narratives: some theoretical, methodological and applied perspectives
  12. 2 Improvisation and narrative
  13. 3 Angels, tooth fairies and ghosts: thinking creatively in an early years classroom
  14. 4 Children's creative collaboration – a view of narrativity
  15. 5 The subjects and meanings of young children's drawings
  16. 6 Painting dinosaurs: how a reception class context shapes children's opportunities for creative expression
  17. 7 Diversifying discourse: the influence of visual culture on children's perception and creation of art
  18. 8 Meaning, mediation and mythology
  19. 9 Children's creativity with time, space and intensity: foundations for the temporal arts
  20. 10 A generative framework for creativity: encouraging creative collaboration in children's music composition
  21. 11 Inside-outside: exploring learning and creativity in early years dance education
  22. 12 Epilogue
  23. Index