Understanding Creativity in Early Childhood: Meaning-Making and Children′s Drawing - Softcover

Wright, Susan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1847875262 ISBN 13: 9781847875266

Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd, 2010

Synopsis

How can we understand young children′s development in greater depth? How do they view the world around them, and what do they think the future might look like?

Creativity in early childhood is an area of fascination for all those working with young children, and Understanding Creativity in Early Childhood investigates why children create, and what their creations mean. Chapters describe the processes and depict the outcomes of meaning-making, and of making room for children′s voices through the open-ended activity of drawing.

Issues examined include:

• the increasingly popular use of multi-modal texts
• links between creativity and literacy
• the importance of art in early childhood
• concrete examples of children′s meaning-making

About this title

About the Author

Susan Kay Wright is the Head of the Early Childhood and Special Educational Needs division at the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

Review

′[This book] features concrete examples of children′s meaning-making and is an attempt to...further understand children′s development in greater depth and also to see how they view the world around them′ -
Early Years Educator

′This will be an important ′seminal′ text for many years in the early childhood field. Wright′s work is based on her extensive research and work with young children, and her passion for this aspect of children′s learning and development is evident throughout the text′ - Dr Catherine Meehan, Senior Lecturer and Programme Director of BA (Hons) Early Childhood Studies, Canterbury Christ Church University

Edition details

• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1847875262
• ISBN 13: 9781847875266
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 200