Communities of Practice: Art, Play, and Aesthetics in Early Childhood

236 Pages·2018·7.9 MB·English

by  Christopher M. Schulte

Landscapes: the Arts, Aesthetics, and Education 21
Christopher M. Schulte
Christine Marmé Thompson Editors
Communities
of Practice:
Art, Play, and
Aesthetics in
Early Childhood
Landscapes: the Arts, Aesthetics, and Education
Volume 21
Series Editor
Liora Bresler, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, U.S.A.
Editorial Board
Eeva Antilla, Theatre Academy, Helsinki, Finland
Magne Espeland, Stord University, Norway
Chris Higgins, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, U.S.A.
Rita Irwin, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Samuel Leong, Hong Kong Institute of Education, Tai Po, Hong Kong
Minette Mans, International Consultant, Windhoek, Namibia
Mike Parsons, The Ohio State University, Columbus, U.S.A.
Eva Sæther, Lund University, Malmö Academy of Music, Sweden
Shifra Schonmann, University of Haifa, Israel
Julian Sefton-Green, University of Nottingham, UK
Susan W. Stinson, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, U.S.A.
Christine Thompson, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, U.S.A.
Scope
This series aims to provide conceptual and empirical research in arts education,
(including music, visual arts, drama, dance, media, and poetry), in a variety of areas
related to the post-modern paradigm shift. The changing cultural, historical, and
political contexts of arts education are recognized to be central to learning,
experience, knowledge. The books in this series presents theories and methodological
approaches used in arts education research as well as related disciplines—including
philosophy, sociology, anthropology and psychology of arts education.
More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/6199
Christopher M. Schulte
Christine Marmé Thompson
Editors
Communities of Practice:
Art, Play, and Aesthetics
in Early Childhood
Editors
Christopher M. Schulte Christine Marmé Thompson
The Pennsylvania State University The Pennsylvania State University
State College, Pennsylvania, USA State College, Pennsylvania, USA
ISSN 1573-4528 ISSN 2214-0069 (electronic)
Landscapes: the Arts, Aesthetics, and Education
ISBN 978-3-319-70643-6 ISBN 978-3-319-70644-3 (eBook)
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70644-3
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Acknowledgments
My deepest gratitude to my editing partner, Chris Schulte, who conceived this proj-
ect and kept it in motion: thank you, Chris, for this chapter in our ongoing dialogue.
Great appreciation goes to Liora Bresler, treasured collaborator and editor of the
Landscapes series, whose enthusiasm and support is as inexhaustible as it is neces-
sary, and to Helen van der Stelt, whose clear guidance has made this process of
coming together a joy. As the final details begin to align, I am indebted and in awe
of each of the authors who joined us in this journey: their advocacy and affection for
children aligns perfectly with their profound intellectual, social, and moral commit-
ments to childhood, to art, to play, and to the special interactions that occur when
children and adults come together to explore and expand their worlds. Thanks to all
for making this book and for being part of this community of practice.
My sincere thanks and appreciation to Liora Bresler, whose encouragement not
only made this project possible but also sustained it; to Helen van der Stelt, whose
support along the way was a tremendous benefit; to the reviewers, whose feedback
was instrumental to finalizing the shape and character of this project; to the amazing
authors who helped us to craft this community of practice; and to the children, who
generously opened us to the complexity of their work. Finally, to my dear friend and
co-editor, Christine Marmé Thompson: it has been an extraordinary honor to work
on this project with you. Thank you to all for making this book possible.
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Contents
Introduction ..................................................................................................... 1
Christine Marmé Thompson and Christopher M. Schulte
Collective Improvisations: The Emergence of the Early
Childhood Studio as an Event-Full Place ..................................................... 5
Sylvia Kind
‘A Cool Place Where We Make Stuff’: Co-curating
Relational Spaces of Muchness ...................................................................... 23
Jaye Johnson Thiel
“Now We All Look Like Rapunzels”: Drawing in a Kindergarten
Writing Journal ............................................................................................... 39
Leslie Rech
Artistic Encounters: Ethical Collaborations Between Children
and Adults ........................................................................................................ 61
Shana Cinquemani
Fighting the Mad King: Play, Art, and Adventure
in an Early Childhood Art Studio.................................................................. 77
Marta Cabral
Sensitive and Supportive Interactions: Tuning into Children’s
Requests for Help During Art-Making ......................................................... 93
Rosemary Richards
Children’s Play and Art Practices with Agentic Objects ............................ 117
Marleena Mustola
Digital Aesthetics and Multidimensional Play in Early Childhood ............ 133
Linda Knight
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Beyond Screen Time: Aesthetics of Digital Playscapes
for Young Children ......................................................................................... 153
Marissa McClure
Circumspection in Early Childhood Classrooms: Ontological
Forays into Questioning, Being, and Making ............................................... 165
Heather Kaplan
A Playful Event Awaiting Just a-Stone’s Throw Away ................................ 185
Charles R. Garoian
Mothering as a Feminist Aesthetics of Existence ......................................... 197
Laura Trafí-Prats
The Will-to-Research Children’s Drawing ................................................... 213
Christopher M. Schulte
Dancing Rainbows, Naughty Rainbows: Reflections on Teaching,
Learning and Researching in the Arts with Young Children ..................... 229
Patricia Tarr
Contributors
Marta Cabral Art & Art Education Program, Columbia University Teachers
College, New York, NY, USA
Shana Cinquemani Department of Teacher Education, University Park, East
Lansing, PA, USA
Charles R. Garoian Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA
Heather Kaplan University of Texas El Paso, El Paso, TX, USA
Sylvia Kind Early Childhood Education, Capilano University, North Vancouver,
BC, Canada
Linda Knight School of Early Childhood, Queensland University of Technology,
Brisbane, Australia
Marissa  McClure Art Education & Women’s and Gender Studies, Indiana
University of Pennsylvania, Indiana, PA, USA
Marleena Mustola University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland
Leslie Rech Educational Theory and Practice, University of Georgia, Athens, GA,
USA
Rosemary Richards Department Education, Social Sciences and Languages, Toi-
Ohomai Institute of Technology, Rotorua, New Zealand
Christopher M. Schulte Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA
Patricia Tarr University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada
Jaye Johnson Thiel Educational Theory and Practice, University of Georgia,
Athens, GA, USA
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x Contributors
Christine Marmé Thompson Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA,
USA
Laura  Trafí-Prats School of Childhood, Youth and Education, Manchester
Metropolitan University, Manchester, UK