Postdevelopmental Approaches to Childhood Art - 9781350042544

In childhood research, children's art-making has typically been viewed and understood through a lens of developmental psychology and the notion that children's art-making progresses through a linear series of stages continues to dominate how we design and implement art-making experiences for young children. Postdevelopmental Approaches to Childhood Art brings together the work of theorists from around the world who have presented postdevelopmental approaches to childhood art, thereby playing a vital part in unsettling the dominance of the developmental paradigm and offering worked examples of alternative models. Drawing on sociocultural theory, Deleuzian philosophy, posthumanism and postmodernism each chapter offers a theoretical basis that challenges developmentalism, as well as an application of that theoretical basis. The contributors also consider what this shift in our perspective means for the design and implementation of art-making experiences for young children.

• | Author: Jayne Osgood, Mona Sakr
• | Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• | Publication Date: Mar 21, 2019
• | Number of Pages: 232 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/Education
• | ISBN-10: 1350042544
• | ISBN-13: 9781350042544