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THE ARTS AND CREATIVITY IN EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION - Coggle Diagram
THE ARTS AND CREATIVITY IN EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION
What are Arts?
Art is used by children before they learn to use conventional literacy skills to communicate and make meaning.
Art is a language that transcends cultures and beliefs, and can convey ideas and feelings.
Drawings and paintings, music, dance, drama, story telling and construction.
Use of skill and imaginative ability to produce aesthetically pleasing objects (Merriam-Webster).
ARTS FOR HOLISTIC DEVELOPMENT
Fine Motor Skills
Develop hand-eye coordination and dexterity.
Drawing, cutting, clay and collage help develop hand control.
Literacy & Numeracy
Develop vocabulary using colours, shape and texture.
Allow storytelling and communication.
Develop pattern, shape, measurement and symmetry, counting.
Critical Thinking
Children are given opportunities to experiment and work out problems.
Make creative choices.
Build independence, perseverance and flexibility of thought.
Social Competence
Work together and negotiate ideas.
Develop trust, empathy and respectful relationships.
Emotional Wellbeing
Communicate emotions in constructive and positive ways.
Increase confidence, resilience and self-awareness.
Express emotions in art, music, movement and drama.
Cultural Awareness
Learn about various cultures, traditions and ideas.
Build the capacity for empathy, inclusion and respect of diversity.
Develop feeling good about oneself and feel part of a group.
CREATIVITY
Creativity encourages many ideas and points of view.
Creativity can be defined as the ability to produce ideas that are novel and valuable (Azzam, 2013).
Creativity includes curiosity, imagination, innovation, flexibility, divergent thinking, problem-solving, learning from mistakes.
Creativity is inherent and can also be nurtured in the proper learning environment.
Creative children ask questions, experiment with ideas, take risks, imagine possibilities, solve problems and persist when challenged
THE FOUR Ps OF CREATIVITY
Press
What are the factors that affect the creativity?
Product
What is created?
Process
In what way does creative thinking happen?
Rhodes (1961)
Person
Who's being creative?
PLAY, SEMIOTICS & KINAESTHETIC LEARNING
Play and Arts work together because both encourage children to:
Voice opinion and feelings.
Be creative, think outside the box.
Make decisions and be solution-oriented.
Explore and experiment.
Discovering by using the senses.
Semiotics
Children use drawing, music, dance, drama, modelling, play and spoken language
Children use these symbolic languages to help them think, communicate, reflect and express ideas (Wohlwend, 2011).
Arts enable children to make and share meaning (Wright, 2007).
Semiotics is the study of the meaning that can be communicated by signs and symbols (Innis, 2012).
Kinaesthetic Learning
Children learn through movement, sensory experiences, hands-on activities, body experiences and active participation.
Modes of Artistic Learning
Aural-Kinaesthetic – Music
Singing
Listening
Rhythm
Beat
Playing instruments
Physical-Kinaesthetic – Movement, Dance & Drama
Body movement
Gestures
Role-play
Dramatic expression
Visual-Kinaesthetic – Visual Arts
Drawing
Painting
Sculpting
Collage
Construction
ARTS AS A VOICE FOR CHILDREN
Children have the right to freely communicate their ideas by creating art and other media (UNCRC 1989).
Arts are a valuable means for children to communicate when they don't have the words to share their thought and feeling.
Children have opportunities to express themselves through drawing, painting, music, dance, drama and storytelling.
Arts give children voice, choice, agency, confidence, self-determination and identity
(UNCRC 1989).
Why is Arts Important ?
Provide support for identity, imagination, wellbeing and belonging.
Children's creative and cognitive development is acknowledged as the importance of arts education (Roy et al., 2019).
Arts enable children to explore, investigate and communicate what they learn about the world.
Arts are the first literacies of children.
Enable children to think, feel and communicate.
Encourage creativity, problem solving and critical thinking (Eisner, 2002).