"Nice to Think I'm Not on My Own": Lessons from an Arts-Based Workshop in an Urban Children's Centre

Autor/inn/en	Trotman, Dave; Davies, Helen; Harris, Deborah
Titel	"Nice to Think I'm Not on My Own": Lessons from an Arts-Based Workshop in an Urban Children's Centre
Quelle	In: Education 3-13, 42 (2014) 5, S.554-562 (9 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0300-4279
DOI	10.1080/03004279.2012.739634
Schlagwörter	Art Activities; Workshops; Urban Areas; Parent Participation; Parent Child Relationship; Child Care Centers; Preschool Children; Parent Attitudes; Program Effectiveness; Mothers; Foreign Countries; United Kingdom + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Künstlerische Tätigkeit; Lernwerkstatt; Schulung; Urban area; Stadtregion; Elternmitwirkung; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Child care facilities; Child care services; Kinderzentrum; Kinderbetreuung; Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Elternverhalten; Mother; Mutter; Ausland; Großbritannien
Abstract	This paper reports the evaluation of an arts-based programme designed to encourage parental participation in an urban Children's Centre. The programme was aimed to explore the possible beneficial effects of arts-based activity as a means of engaging "hard to reach" parents more fully in the services of the centre. Practical workshops were designed for parents and their children and delivered over a 10-week period. From the evidence garnered in the evaluation, the potential of arts activities as a means to improve parental participation remains uncertain. Of greater significance, however, observations by parents and facilitators revealed that arts-based activities were a powerful dialogic tool for mediating interactions between parent and child. In particular, dance, drama and music emerged as powerful conduits for dialogic encounters with media-based activities offering previously unforeseen opportunities for the sharing of family lifeworlds. (As Provided).
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