This invaluable addition to Springer's Explorations of Educational Purpose series is a revelatory ethnographic account of the visual material culture of contemporary youths in North America. The author's detailed study follows apparently dissimilar groups (black and Latino/a in a New York City after-school club, and white and Indigenous in a small Canadian community) as they inflect their nascent identities with a sophisticated sense of visual material culture in today's globalized world. It provides detailed proof of how much ethnography can add to what we know about young people's...
This invaluable addition to Springer's Explorations of Educational Purpose series is a revelatory ethnographic account of the visual material cultu...
For all involved in teaching young children, this timely book offers the necessary tool with which to develop a broad, creative and inspirational visual arts programme. Presented in two parts, this text covers both theoretical and practical angles: * part one investigates contemporary early childhood art education, challenging what is traditionally considered an early years art experience * part two puts theory to text by presenting the reader with numerous inventive visual art lessons that imaginatively meet goals for creative development issued by the QCA. The author strikes the perfect...
For all involved in teaching young children, this timely book offers the necessary tool with which to develop a broad, creative and inspirational visu...