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6%OFFSusan Wright - Understanding Creativity in Early Childhood: Meaning-Making and Children's Drawing - 9781847875266 - V9781847875266
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Understanding Creativity in Early Childhood: Meaning-Making and Children's Drawing

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Description for Understanding Creativity in Early Childhood: Meaning-Making and Children's Drawing Paperback. Creativity is a key theme in early childhood studies at the moment and is increasingly highlighted in all manner of early childhood academic courses. This book will form the link between creativity and literacy with concrete examples of children's meaning making, as well as offering a protocol for students to follow. Num Pages: 200 pages, black & white tables, figures. BIC Classification: JNLA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 247 x 182 x 11. Weight in Grams: 362.
Do you want to understand young children′s development in greater depth? Would you like to see how they view the world around them, and what they think the future might look like?

Creativity in early childhood is an area of fascination for all those working with young children, and this book 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;

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- the importance of art in early childhood;

- concrete examples of children′s meaning-making, from the author′s research.

We see how non-verbal and verbal communication is used to convey meaning, and how children′s voices emerge; the important role imagination and narrative play in the early and continuing development of children is emphasized throughout the book.

Ideal for students of early childhood, and for anyone working with young children, this book is a revelatory guide to the mind of the young child.

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Product Details

Publisher
SAGE Publications Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
200
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
Number of Pages
200
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781847875266
SKU
V9781847875266
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-2

About Susan Wright
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.

Reviews for Understanding Creativity in Early Childhood: Meaning-Making and Children's Drawing
′[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 ... Read more

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