CREATIVE ARTS

FOR CHILDREN AGED BETWEEN 3 AND 5 YEARS

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 WHAT IS CREATIVE ARTS?
Activities that are able to engage a childs imagination and creativity

This creativity can be explored through music, drama, dance, media arts and visual arts

Through creative arts children are able to express themselves, develop a sense of identity
an make meaning of the world in which they live
 EDUCATIONAL, HOME AND COMMUNITY SETTING
Educational - most formal places in which young children learn. The provide children with the
knowledge and skills they will need later in life to become functioning members of society.

Home - children learn naturally from their family members.

Community - should encourage community incorporation and involvement. A library is the

perfect community based setting to bring young children to.
 THE TYPES OF CREATIVE ARTS

VISUAL ARTS DRAMA DANCE

MUSIC MEDIA ARTS

 MUSIC

Educational setting: welcoming songs from different cultures, music corner

Home setting: using spoons and pots as percussion instruments to make music

Community setting: music performances, community music groups such as Rhythm Rumble
 DRAMA
Educational setting: Dramatic corner
- Within this space, materials and items such as menus, chef hats, cutlery, a cash register and pretend food
will prompt the children to use their imagination and recall from their own experiences of going to a
restaurant with their families.

Home setting: dress-up box filled with hats, clothes and other props that child can use as different
costumes.

Community setting: attending dramatic workshops or community plays

 DANCE
Educational setting: providing a basket of scarfs or dancing ribbons as props while the children dance to
music played on the CD player

Home setting: create an open floor space for the children to dance safety in the home

Community setting: enrolling children into a dance school

Dance is a place where children become their own creations (Sansom, 2011)
 MEDIA ARTS
Educational setting: screen projector on the wall, iPad with interactive e-books

Home setting: iPad used for matching games

Community setting: going to the movies, watching educational programs on TV

Technology plays an essential role in the lives of children in the 21st century (Wright, 2012)
 VISUAL ARTS

Educational setting: art and crafts table for the young learners

Home setting: easel and paints or different mediums for the child to create their artwork with

Community setting: Visiting a local community art gallery is great experience for young children
 PEDAGOGY

Pedagogy refers to the holistic nature of early

childhood educators professional practice,
curriculum decision-making, teaching and
learning.
(Early Year Learning Framework for Australia, 2010).
 EARLY YEARS FRAMEWORK

The early years framework puts childrens learning at the core

and comprises three inter-related elements

(Early Year Learning Framework for Australia, 2010)

 THE THEORIES

NATIVIST SOCIAL COGNATIVE (PIAGET)

BEHAVIOURIST
(CHOMSKY) INTERACTIONAIST
(SKINNER)
(VYGOTSKY & Children move
Language is an innate HALLIDAY) through four
All behaviours are
faculty Believes we different stages of
learned through
are born with a set if Stresses the development:
interaction with the
rule about language fundamental role of
environment
known as Universal social interaction in 1 sensorimotor stage
2 preoperational stage
Grammar the development of 3 concrete operational stage
cognition 4 formal operational stage
 CO-CONSTRUCTIVISM
Theorist Lev Vygotsky states that the knowledge is co-constructed and individuals learn from
one another

Children learn best when they have the assistance from others as they are given the guidance
they need

Scaffolding: refers to a variety of instructional techniques used to move students progressively

toward stronger understanding and, ultimately, greater independence in the learning process
 CONSTRUCTIVISM

Constructivism: how learners construct their own understandings and ideas

Constructivism as an Epistemological Theory explains that disciplines, such as history and

mathematics, are constructed by human interactions and decisions

Cognitive conflict explains that the child is able to understand discrepancies between what they
already know and new perspectives on information that they are experiencing in their everyday
lives
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