Art inSight - Understanding Art and Why It Matters
by Fanchon Silberstein
A first encounter with art is like meeting a stranger: it opens you to new ideas, people, places and parts of yourself. In Art inSight: Understanding Art and Why It Matters, Fanchon Silberstein delves into the first known art and explores what it can reveal about how its makers saw the world and how contemporary artists can help us to see our own. The result is equal parts an ode to the joy of artful engagement, a how-to for anyone interested in understanding art and culture and a journey around...
Disrupting Pedagogies in the Knowledge Society: Countering Conservative Norms with Creative Approaches examines a range of `disruptive' approaches, exploring how challenge, dissonance, and discomfort might be mobilized in educational contexts in order to shift taken-for-granted attitudes and beliefs held by both educators and learners. As digital technologies transform both social norms and political resistance, and the imperative to think critically and disruptively is now more urgent than ever...
Children, Place and Sustainability
by Margaret Somerville and Monica Green
Through focusing on children's sustainability learning this book examines how school education can address the current environmental problems. It explores children's responses in literacy and language, arts-based approaches, and indigenous studies as well as scientific pedagogies to provide a unique insight into how children learn.
Kids on YouTube goes beyond the hype about digital youth, using fine-grained ethnographic studies to describe the collaborative social networks kids use to negotiate identities and develop digital literacy.
Alberto Durero Para Pequenos Amantes del Arte
by Maria Teresa Torres Fischer
In Eldon "Cap" Lee's new book, standards become guidelines for success rather than deadlines for failure as it is recognized that all children are unique, with different brains and different dreams. This leads to the reality that children are children, not branded on their foreheads for their differences but accepted within the wide range of skills and abilities present in all of us. Brainstorming Common Core: Challenging the Way We Think about Education includes ideas developed in the trenches...
This is a complete handbook for anyone organising an offsite trip for children aged 5-11. When children can touch and explore their world outside the constraints of the classroom they become more independent and enthusiastic learners. But planning a visit, supervising a group of thirty 8-year-olds and evaluating the benefits of the experience can add to an already heavy workload. "The Educational Visits Coordinator's Handbook" provides comprehensive guidance on planning, implementing and evaluat...
