“More like a poem than a play”: towards a dramaturgy of performing arts for Early Years
Dr Ben Fletcher-Watson explores the impacts of Theatre for Early Years (TEY) since its emergence in the late 1970s. His research undertakes a qualitative investigation of current practice in the devising and production of performing arts for very young audiences, based on the belief that children should access high-quality cultural experiences on the same basis as adults.
‘Choosing the good things’: Reconceptualising and reopening discourses surrounding visual arts pedagogies in early childhood education
"Arts Education” in the early years: learning about, through and with art
Art can make a difference in the lives of young children, and how their successes are measured and mapped affects their chances for success. What is required is change and, ‘there are a thousand things to do’ (Foucault, 1981/1991, p.174). Art education is not an option. Rather, it is a way to teach and learn.
Do Visual Art Experiences in Early Childhood Settings Foster Educative Growth or Stagnation?
The range of visual art experiences typically delivered in early childhood education settings varies significantly in method and purpose, yet there is little guidance to support early childhood educators to evaluate the visual art experiences they include in the curriculum or to consider their role as art educators.
All Our Futures: Creativity, Culture and Education - Sir Ken Robinson
Arts and Academic Achievement: What the Evidence Shows
Arts Integration: A Promising Approach to Improving Early Learning
Born Creative
In a series of 2010 essays, Born Creative brings together the experiences of creative practices in early years education. It shows the importance of cultures, environments and networks in the enrichment of early years learning and interrogates the role of leaders, policy and parents in creating them.
Champions of Change: The Impact of the Arts on Learning
Children and creativity: A most (un)likely pair?
Children, spaces, relations - environments for young children
Creativity and Possibility in the Early Years
Dance for young children can provide so much more than physical exercise
Developmental Movement Play: More of Me
Creative Connections in the Early Years Phase One (Tasmania)
Cultural Entitlement in a Nutshell
This book provides the rationale behind why all children and young people should achieve their entitlement to culture. It poses twenty big questions that should be asked before designing a cultural offer, and identifies the latest policies and initiatives that can support meaningful cultural experiences.
Developing Young Children's Creativity Through the Arts
This paper sets out to provide an overview of the state of research and thinking on the relationship between the arts and creative development in young children (aged three to six years). The main purpose of the exercise was to identify issues, gaps and priorities for further research. By Caroline Sharp, published by NFER in February 2001.
Developing young children's creativity - what we can learn from research
Can music improve vocalising in young children with language delay?
The aim of this action research was to enable the collaboration between Emma Hutchinson, the Founder and Director of the Music House for Children, and Laura Gergees, a speech and language therapist, to examine how a child's language can develop via musical experiences, particularly focusing on vocalisation for children with language delay.