Supporting Children’s Creativity through Music, Dance, Drama and Art

Creative Conversations in the Early Years

Fleur Griffiths

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2017
• ISBN:
  9781315460390
• Edition: 2
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Education General

An essential part of children's development in the early years involves creative engagement through language, gestures, body movements, drawing, music, and creating shared meanings in playful contexts.

Supporting Children's Creativity through Music, Dance, Drama and Art brings together contributions from a range of early years practitioners and professionals, sharing their 'creative conversations' and helping readers to implement the themes of the Early Years Foundation Stage framework in a creative way. Including a new chapter to explore the relationships between music and movement, this second edition has been fully updated and covers:

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• How to incorporate music-making and storytelling in the classroom

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• How to use stories of practice to inspire reflection and change

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• How to extend, challenge and sustain children's interests

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• How to make use of the 'Talking Table' and 'Helicopter' approaches

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• How to become an effective play-partner

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• How to improve practice with interactive strategies and music for well-being

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• How to use observation to inspire planning and learning projects.

Appealing to all with an interest in early years practice, this new edition demonstrates how parents, carers and practitioners can put excitement and inspiration back into the learning process, guiding them to encourage and support the creative capacities of young children.

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Index

acting out stories 88, 90–94, 95–96, 98, 99, 100–101

Action Research 53, 125

adults: conversational principles 54; Helicopter Technique 99; listening by 1; as play-partners 2, 45, 140, 143; Reggio Children’s philosophy 34; role of 21, 39–40, 42, 56–57, 63, 74; skills to extend learning 140; The Talking Table 58; see also parents

adventure 61

affective curriculum 63

altruistic control 61

approval 57, 84, 140

art 20–21, 22, 23, 74–86, 141; see also drawing; painting

artists, role of 24

Athey, C. 74

attention 57, 84, 96, 98, 139

Autistic Spectrum Disorder 49, 96

awe 37, 45

behaviour 57, 61, 111

behavioural difficulties 92

beliefs 138–139

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Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Supporting Children’s Creativity through Music, Dance, Drama and Art
• Title
• Copyright
• The Hundred Languages of Children
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• List of Contributors
• Introduction
• Overture
• Story-Making
• 4 Creative Conversations: The Talking Table
• The A–Z of Children Visiting the Talking Table
• 5 From Scribble to Story: Making Meaning From Marks in Pencil and Paint
• 6 Storytelling and Story-Acting: Putting Positive Interaction Into Action
• Music-Making Music Round a Cloth
• 7 Musical Movers: Creative Ideas for Using Movement With Young Children
• 8 The Sounds of Leaping: Exploring Relationships Between Music and Movement
• The Jam Jar Project: A Conversational Account
• 9 Coda Conversations for Change
• Reading and Resources
• Index