Table of Contents

Introduction

1 Young Children, Pedagogy and the Arts: Ways of Seeing
GAIL BOLDT AND FELICITY MCARDLE

Part I Ways of Seeing – The Arts

2 Small Acts of Resistance: The Role of Intergenerational Collaborative Drawing in Early Childhood Teaching and Learning
LINDA KNIGHT

3 Daring to Dance: Making a Case for the Place of Dance in Children’s and Teachers’ Lives within Early Childhood Settings
ADRIENNE SANSOM

4 Teacher, Researcher and Artist: Thinking About Documentary Practices
CHRISTINA MACRAE

Part II Ways of Seeing – Children

5 Becoming Intense
KORTNEY SHERBINE AND GAIL BOLDT

6 Increasing the Abundance of the World: Young Children and their Drawings
CHRISTINE MARMÉ THOMPSON

7 Choreographed Childhoods: Patterns of Embodiment in the Lives of Contemporary Children
EEVA ANTTILA

Part III Ways of Seeing – Curriculum and Pedagogy

8 Designing with Pink Technologies and Barbie Transmedia
KAREN E. WOHLWEND AND KYLIE PEPPLER

9 Social Class and Art Room Curriculum
AMY PFEILER-WUNDER

10 Children’s Concert Experience: An Intercultural Approach
JAN SVERRE KNUDSEN

11 There’s More to Art than Meets the Eye — A Series of Provocations from Unit X
FELICITY MCARDLE

About the Author

Felicity McArdle is Associate Professor at Queensland University of Technology, Australia.

Gail Boldt is Associate Professor at The Pennsylvania State University, USA.

Reviews

"This book provides an analysis of the arts and respective arts pedagogy based on poststructuralist discourses and feminist critical theory with specific emphasison early childhood teacher- education practices.The articles address the importnace of learning through a child centric model of engagement and exploration in the arts..Summing up: Recommended"-E.Correa, Medaille College, for CHOICE, December 2013