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Letting Art Teach Aesthetics, Math and Language

Year of publication

2020

Authors

Moerman, Paul

Abstract

This papers presents a practical work model as well as an educational theory discussion on the status and potential of art work in teaching and learning math in early childhood education. The central idea is to let the child’s free creative art activity reveal, or “teach”, whatever mathematical thinking was inherent in the creative process. Paying careful attention to art and math adequate language in “meta talks” with children about their art work, is found to be a rich tool in enhancing the young learner’s development of aesthetic, numeric and linguistic literacies in gainful interplay. A field study in preschool teacher education is reviewed, including a mapping of Alan Bishop’s [2] mathematical activities in doing art work, and an interpretation of the work model in line with John Dewey’s [5] and Gert Biesta’s [1] thinking on art as experience and art as education.
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Publication type

Publication format

Article

Parent publication type

Conference

Article type

Other article

Audience

Scientific

Peer-reviewed

Peer-Reviewed

MINEDU's publication type classification code

A4 Article in conference proceedings

Publication channel information

Parent publication editors

Yackel, Carolyn; Torrence, Eve; Fenyvesi, Kristóf; Bosch, Robert; Kaplan, Craig S.

Pages

313-320

​Publication forum

9167

Open access

Open access in the publisher’s service

Yes

Open access of publication channel

Fully open publication channel

Self-archived

Yes

Other information

Fields of science

Mathematics; Educational sciences; Theatre, dance, music, other performing arts

Keywords

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Publication country

United States

Internationality of the publisher

International

Language

English

International co-publication

Yes

Co-publication with a company

No

The publication is included in the Ministry of Education and Culture’s Publication data collection

Yes