Serendipity as a Curricular Approach to Early Childhood Art Education

Autor/in	Kaplan, Heather
Titel	Serendipity as a Curricular Approach to Early Childhood Art Education
Quelle	In: Art Education, 73 (2020) 6, S.24-29 (6 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Kaplan, Heather)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0004-3125
DOI	10.1080/00043125.2020.1788345
Schlagwörter	Art Education; Early Childhood Education; Childrens Art; Art Activities; Painting (Visual Arts); Preschool Children; Creativity + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Arts; Education; Art in Education; Kunst; Bildung; Erziehung; Early childhood; Frühkindliche Bildung; Frühpädagogik; Künstlerische Tätigkeit; Malerei; Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Kreativität
Abstract	This article explores how the notion of a serendipitous curriculum relates to young children's artmaking events in an early childhood center in the Midwest. A new materialist theoretical lens is used that not only considers the agency and action of children, but also enables ALL matter within a relation to act. In doing so, it offers a way to reconceptualize curricular uncertainty through new materialism and serendipity as a space for unfolding knowledge production. Serendipity not only refers to an openness and disposition of finding agreeable that which was not directly sought, but also to a phenomenon in which knowledge is constructed, or comes to be, at the same time as something else comes to be. This article argues for an opening up of traditional preK-12 notions of a planned, outcome-based, and objective-driven art curriculum in favor of the yet-to-be-known and serendipitous. It describes one event within a series of weekly artmaking events in which Heather Kaplan was both the arts facilitator and a researcher working with teachers and young children in a Reggio-inspired preschool. The event is a snapshot within a series of weekly artmaking explorations that involved repeated and cumulative encounters between a thin piece of plywood cut into two equal 4-foot sections, various art and everyday materials, and preschool-aged children. This event is relayed to consider the possibilities for new, unknown knowledge created through serendipitous, open-ended curricular practices, and children's eventful entanglement with materials, objects, and artmaking. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01