Young Children, Pedagogy and the Arts

Felicity McArdle is Associate Professor at Queensland University of Technology, Australia.Gail Boldt is Associate Professor at The Pennsylvania State University, USA.

• Introduction1 Young Children, Pedagogy and the Arts: Ways of SeeingGAIL BOLDT AND FELICITY MCARDLEPart I Ways of Seeing – The Arts2 Small Acts of Resistance: The Role of Intergenerational Collaborative Drawing in Early Childhood Teaching and LearningLINDA KNIGHT3 Daring to Dance: Making a Case for the Place of Dance in Children’s and Teachers’ Lives within Early Childhood SettingsADRIENNE SANSOM4 Teacher, Researcher and Artist: Thinking About Documentary PracticesCHRISTINA MACRAEPart II Ways of Seeing – Children5 Becoming IntenseKORTNEY SHERBINE AND GAIL BOLDT6 Increasing the Abundance of the World: Young Children and their DrawingsCHRISTINE MARMÉ THOMPSON7 Choreographed Childhoods: Patterns of Embodiment in the Lives of Contemporary ChildrenEEVA ANTTILAPart III Ways of Seeing – Curriculum and Pedagogy8 Designing with Pink Technologies and Barbie TransmediaKAREN E. WOHLWEND AND KYLIE PEPPLER9 Social Class and Art Room CurriculumAMY PFEILER-WUNDER10 Children’s Concert Experience: An Intercultural ApproachJAN SVERRE KNUDSEN11 There’s More to Art than Meets the Eye — A Series of Provocations from Unit XFELICITY MCARDLE

"This book provides an analysis of the arts and respective arts pedagogy based on poststructuralist discourses and feminist critical theory with specific emphasison early childhood teacher- education practices.The articles address the importnace of learning through a child centric model of engagement and exploration in the arts..Summing up: Recommended"-E.Correa, Medaille College, for CHOICE, December 2013