Visions of Creativity in Early Childhood

Full Colour • 264 Pages • P/B
ISBN 9781876138295

Connecting Theory, Practice and Reflection

First printed in 2009 and reprinted in the same year, this book has been an outstanding success. It is both informative and easy to read as the author uses real-life stories so that the reader may share with her reflections on the ways we can encourage children’s creativity. Using Howard Gardner’s Theory of Multiple Intelligence as the framework and blending her thoughts with the ideas from Reggio Emilia and the Emergent Curriculum school of thought, this book connects philosophy, theories and practice.

Joy Lubawy is a storyteller. In Visions of Creativity she uses the real-life stories from her 30 years as Teacher/ Director in Australian early childhood centres so that the reader may share with her reflections on the ways we can encourage children’s creativity. Joy has used Howard Gardner’s Theory of Multiple Intelligence as the framework of the book so that creativity is now seen not only as being for the artists and performers, but for every child. She has blended her thoughts and stories with responses to ideas from Reggio Emilia as well as other writers from the Emergent Curriculum school of thought.

Contents

This book has a very expansive Table of Contents which has been reduced here to chapter headings only. Each chapter contains a definition of the chapter title, stories and examples from the classroom and implications.

Chapter One
Exploring visual and aesthetic dimensions

Chapter Two
Exploring musical and rhythmic dimensions

Chapter Three
Exploring kinaesthetic dimensions

Chapter Four
Exploring mathematical and logical dimensions

Chapter Five
Exploring naturalist dimensions

Chapter Six
Exploring linguistic dimensions

Chapter Seven
Exploring interpersonal dimensions

Chapter Eight
Exploring intrapersonal dimensions

Chapter Nine
Programming, planning, evaluation and documentation