Creative Activities And Curriculum For Young Children 12th Edition

By (author) Mayesky Mary; By (author) Howard Rebecca
Description
CREATIVE ACTIVITIES AND CURRICULUM FOR YOUNG CHILDREN, Twelfth Edition, is written for anyone who wants to deepen their understanding of creative and aesthetic development, the importance of arts experiences in childhood, supporting creativity in children, expanding creative approaches to teaching and integrating creativity across the curriculum. Whether you''re an early childhood teacher, caregiver or administrator or a pre-service or in-service pre-K to Grade 5 teacher, this text is an invaluable resource you can turn to again and again. Covering a wide range of content areas encountered in early childhood and elementary classrooms, the text promotes creativity in children and encourages you to exercise your own creativity. The research-based theoretical foundation is applied through hundreds of practical activities. Updated throughout, the Twelfth Edition features research into theories of brain development and their application to daily practice, new topics in the Spotlight and Think About It features, recommendations for children’s books that support activities and exploration and current information regarding the use of digital technology. The authors have more thoroughly integrated culturally responsive practice throughout the text, including broader consideration of how to accommodate and adapt activities and experiences for children with special needs or non-typical development. In addition, chapters have been reorganized to reflect a more natural sequence of topics to help you master even complex concepts more readily.
Table of contents
PART I: Creativity, Aesthetics, Art, and Development. 1. Creativity: Theories, Definition and Importance in the Early Childhood Environment. 2. Aesthetics: Theories, Definition and Importance in the Early Childhood Environment. 3. Arts and Physical-Cognitive Development. 4. Arts and Creative Development. 5. Arts and Social-Emotional Development. PART II: Considerations for Art and Creativity in Early Childhood Program Development—Curriculum, Goals, Strategies and Materials. 6. Foundations of Creative Activities. 7. Foundations of Creative Environments. 8. Play and Creativity. 9. Technology and Creativity. 10. Creativity and Program Basics. PART III: Creative Activities Integrated Throughout the Early Childhood Environment. 11. Two-Dimensional Activities. 12. Three-Dimensional Activities. 13. Performance Activities: Dramatic Play, Music and Movement. 14. Creative Language Experiences. 15. Creative Science. 16. Creative Mathematics. 17. Creative Social Studies. APPENDICES. A. Gross- and Fine-Motor Skills. B. Language Development Objectives and Activities for Infants and Toddlers. C. Art Talk Summary. D. Exhibitions and Displays. E. Recycled Materials. Glossary. Index.
Biographical note
Mary Mayesky, Ph.D., is a certified preschool, elementary and secondary teacher. She is a former professor in the Program in Education at Duke University, former director of the Early Childhood Certification Program and supervisor of student teachers. She has served as assistant director for programs in the Office of Day Services, Department of Human Resources, State of North Carolina. She is also the former principal of the Mary E. Phillips Magnet School in Raleigh, North Carolina, the first licensed extended day magnet in the Southeast. She has served several terms on the North Carolina Day Care Commission and on the Wake County School Board. Dr. Mayesky has worked in Head Start, child care, kindergarten and YWCA early childhood programs and has taught kindergarten through eighth grade in the public schools. She has written extensively for professional journals and for general-circulation magazines in the areas of child development and curriculum design. She is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and was named Woman of the Year in Education by the North Carolina Academy of the YWCA. Her other honors