Pedagogy
While researching cognitive arts pedagogy, I found most of the research fell into one or more categories: Environment, Experience, and/or Expression.
The environment created and established for student art engagement is important to the student process. When given lessons with a goal and allowance for mess and independent freedom, students...
The experience of art creation encourages problem-solving, risk-taking, and flexibility.
Eisner, 2005; Gascoyne, 2017; McArdle, 2008; Tyler & Likova, 2012
Through art, students are encouraged to find and share their voice through the materials they choose and the images they produce. Learn more on building your own students expression.
Eisner, 2005; Szekely, 2022
References
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Eisner, E. W. (2003). The arts and the creation of mind. Choice Reviews Online, 40(08), 40–4405. https://doi.org/10.5860/choice.40-4405
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Eisner, E. W. (2005). Reimagining Schools: The Selected Works of Elliot W. Eisner. http://ci.nii.ac.jp/ncid/BA75318016
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Gascoyne, S. (2017). Patterns and attributes in vulnerable children’s messy play. European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 25(2), 272–291. https://doi.org/10.1080/1350293x.2017.1288019
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Szekely, G. (2021). Teaching to Support Children’s Artistic Independence: How Children’s Creativity Can Inform Art Education. Routledge.
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Tyler, C. W., & Likova, L. T. (2012). The role of the visual arts in the enhancing the learning process. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 6. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2012.00008