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Wanerman, Todd – Redleaf Press, 2013
Toddlers and two-year-olds are in a fluid and dynamic state of development. They have a sense of wonder that is easily activated, and they are always ready to learn. In this book, you will learn how to use hands-on creative projects to engage very young children's interests and nurture their unique ways of exploring and learning. You will be…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Early Childhood Education, Child Development, Creative Development
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Hodes, Stuart – Design for Arts in Education, 1989
Explains that an important aspect of dance history is lost by not recording dance rehearsals. Argues that recording rehearsals can reveal the creative process and illuminate the environment that engendered this art form. Concludes that a transformed dance history will influence curriculum development. (GG)
Descriptors: Creative Development, Curriculum Development, Dance, Dance Education
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Kratus, John – Music Educators Journal, 1990
Offers a systematic approach to creative learning in music through an analysis of the components of complex learning and creative activity. Outlines goals for fostering creative learning in music education, and delineates person, process, and product objectives. Suggests methods of evaluating creativity. (RW)
Descriptors: Creative Development, Creative Thinking, Creativity, Curriculum Development
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Fowler, Charles B. – 1984
This Pennsylvania state curriculum guide provides a rationale and plan for the inclusion and role of arts education in a K-12 curriculum. Part 1, "Actions of the Arts Process," describes concepts related to the terms art, artists, and the arts process and suggests that students need to experience perceiving, responding, understanding, creating,…
Descriptors: Aesthetic Education, Art, Art Activities, Art Education
Hale, Judy; Roy, Joyce – 1996
Giving children the opportunity to be creative requires allowing children to find and solve problems and communicate ideas in novel and appropriate ways. This paper presents 12 basic principles for teachers to follow when presenting art activities with children. These principles include: the process of creating a picture or project is more…
Descriptors: Art Activities, Childrens Art, Creative Art, Creative Development
McCann, Guy – 1983
With minor modifications, an advertising fundamentals course can stimulate creative development and provide career direction while it presents the basic elements of advertising. A group presentation introduces students to research and familiarizes them with the conflict resolution process useful in preparing advertising. A group project arranges…
Descriptors: Advertising, Career Development, Career Guidance, Career Planning
Wakefield, John F. – 1989
This study explores the usefulness of a creativity construct for arts education. It is hypothesized that an arts orientation is a valid personality construct, that this orientation is correlated with contrasting cognitive skills, and that these skills are manifested in creative behaviors. Sixty-five high school seniors were given the ACT Interest…
Descriptors: Art Education, Art Expression, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Measurement
Armington, David – 1987
This book describes the special way one teacher, Jeanette Amidon, approaches children's thinking, with a particular focus on reading and writing instruction. The root value of her first-grade classroom in Massachusetts is respect for children's ideas, with the children's art and writing as visible signs of the teacher's respect for their thinking.…
Descriptors: Childrens Art, Childrens Writing, Classroom Environment, Creative Development