Young Children Visit Museums - Cultural and Creative Perspectives (Hardcover)

Bringing different cultural perspectives on creativity with them, teachers and children in two early childhood education sites in Aotearoa New Zealand were using museum visits as jumping off places to hone their creative capacity building. As a contribution to Tim Ingold's discussion of anthropology and/as education, and also finding John Dewey's writing valuable (specifically his framing of 'enduring attitudes'), the authors employ a navigation metaphor throughout the discussion. They describe a coming together of four Cultural Anchors (thinking from materials) with four Coordinates (creative capacity builders) to describe ways in which the children were making creative sense of the museum exhibits, while at the same time gathering information about them. They take these travel metaphors from a star cluster in the southern hemisphere night sky, Matariki, which provided early sea-going Maori with guidance as they navigated wide stretches of ocean in their sea-going canoes to reach Aotearoa New Zealand. A Maori immersion early childhood centre and school, and a New Zealand kindergarten provided lively examples of children's and teachers' responses to the treasured artefacts (taonga) in their local museums. The book describes an ecosocial framing, from 'little to big', and illustrates the different cultural perspectives on creativity. The Mana Tamariki kaiako (teachers) gifted us a title-He taonga, he rerenga arorangi (Where there are treasured objects, the spirit is nurtured and creativity will be inspired).

General

Imprint:	Taylor & Francis
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Rethinking Education
Release date:	September 2022
First published:	2022
Authors:	Margaret Carr • Brenda Soutar • Jeanette Clarkin-Phillips • Leanne Clayton • Bronwen Cowie • Shelley Butler
Dimensions:	216 x 138mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	110
ISBN-13:	978-1-03-207842-7
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Museums & museology Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > General Books > Social sciences > Education > Schools > Pre-school & kindergarten Books > Sport & Leisure > Travel & holiday > Travel & holiday guides > Museum, historic sites, gallery & art guides Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > Social & cultural anthropology > General Books > Travel > Travel & holiday guides > Museum, historic sites, gallery & art guides Promotions
LSN:	1-03-207842-1
Barcode:	9781032078427

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