The Colors of Learning: Integrating the Visual Arts Into the Early Childhood Curriculum

Early Childhood Education

by Rosemary Althouse

Unique in its creativity and depth of understanding, The Colors of Learning will change the way that teachers think about and react to children’s artwork. Promoting the integration of visual art into all early childhood curriculum areas, this volume will help early childhood professionals present in-depth art experiences to children so that they become engrossed in expressing their ideas and newly learned concepts through art media. This user-friendly volume features actual classroom dialogue throughout the text and many illustrations of children’s art, including some in full color. Based on standards endorsed by the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) and the National Art Education Association (NAEA) , this important book focuses

Genres: Nonfiction

168 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2002

Reviews

[Jane · Rating 5 out of 5]

The Colors of Learning: Integrating the Visual Arts into the Early Childhood Curriculum gives the preschool teacher ideas, ways to present visual experiences and how to create conversations to draw children out to talk about what they create and what they are learning in the 'Art Center' of the classroom. I liked how using art the teacher is shown ways to direct conversation about learning in other areas. For example a child was drawing a shark and the teacher commented that she liked the shark. The child said it needed an eye and the teacher asked if the child had done their research about what a shark's eye looked like and where it was on the shark's body? This tied science, book knowledge into an art project of the child's.

[Diana McCutcheon · Rating 4 out of 5]

Art education for early childhood text

[Amber]

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