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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University of Jyväskylä
Moerman Paul
Publication type
Publication format
Article
Parent publication type
Conference
Article type
Other article
Audience
ScientificPeer-reviewed
Peer-ReviewedMINEDU's publication type classification code
A4 Article in conference proceedingsPublication channel information
Journal
Parent publication name
Proceedings of Bridges 2020 : Mathematics, Art, Music, Architecture, Education, Culture
Parent publication editors
Yackel, Carolyn; Torrence, Eve; Fenyvesi, Kristóf; Bosch, Robert; Kaplan, Craig S.
Conference
Publisher
Pages
313-320
ISSN
ISBN
Publication forum
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