"Creative Activities for Young Children, International Edition", is an invaluable resource for any teacher, pre-service or experienced, as well as for parents and child-care providers. Featuring a wealth of information covering every conceivable content area encountered in an early childhood classroom as well as up to grade 5, this combined art/curriculum text promotes creativity in children and encourages readers to exercise their own creativity. The sound theoretical base is applied in hundreds of practical activities. The Tenth Edition features expanded coverage of developmentally appropriate practice (DAP), Web tools in the arts, and brain research, and nearly all photos are new. All references, including websites, software recommendations, and additional readings have been updated. The final section on Creativity and Multicultural Education covers the place of creativity in the anti-bias curriculum, and provides a multitude of creative activity ideas for use in today's multicultural classrooms. Students will find this book to be a helpful resource throughout their professional careers.
PART 1 : THEORIES RELATING TO CHILD DEVELOPMENT
- Section 1. Fostering Creativity and Aesthetics in Young Children
- Section 2. Planning and Implementing Creative Activities
- Section 3. Art and the Development of the Young Child
- Section 4. The Early Childhood Art Program
PART 2 : THEORY INTO PRACTICE: CREATIVE ACTIVITIES FOR THE EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION PROGRAM
- Section 5. Creative Activities in Other Curriculum Areas
- Section 6. Creativity: A Multicultural View