Growing Artists: Teaching Art to Young Children - Softcover

Koster, Joan Bouza

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0766810585 ISBN 13: 9780766810587

Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing, 2000

Synopsis

This well-organized, readable text provides the tools to develop rich, meaningful activities that integrate art into the total educational experience for young children. It specifically focuses on developmentally appropriate teaching practices best suited for use with children ages 1 ½ through 8. Multiple intelligences theory, the Reggio Emilia experience, artistic development, the creative process, thematic teaching, and the project approach form the framework for designing safe, open-ended art experiences that develop the child's ability to look at, talk about, and create art. This text is designed for both those preparing to enter the early childhood fields as well as those who wish to incorporate art more fully into their early childhood programs.

About this title

About the Author:

Joan Bouza Koster is an experienced early childhood education instructor at Broome Community College in Binghamton, New York, as well as the author of several books about art for young children. Ms. Koster is a frequent speaker at industry conventions.

Review:

The studio pages are another excellent feature of this text. They provide the students with various activities in which they can reflect on their concepts, thoughts and ideas about their own experiences as well as various aspects of an art program for young children.

The blending of theory and practice is suitable for preservice teachers, giving them both the 'why' and the 'how'" within the same chapter.

About this edition

• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0766810585
• ISBN 13: 9780766810587
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 448