Preschool child’s researching interests and role of visual art’s expressing media

Podobnik, Uršula (author)

Genuine interest, research zeal, and visual art expressiveness which are typical of the pre-school period can pose a challenge to every teacher, at the same time, guide them when planning different contents for children to explore and discover. As one of the primary expressing media and an important support when forming concepts, visual art plays an indispensable role in the pre-school period. The following thesis is based on an action research whose key tendencies were focused on establishing children’s interests in different useful materials and tools while enabling them an autonomous visual art use of these tools and didactical possibilities of the teacher involved. The activities included in the research were fully in line with the Slovenian National Kindergarten Curriculum and the project was carried out in the form of several successive meetings intended for visual art creative activities. All activities in the research were photo-documented while the analysis of the research’s data was performed based on observation and written notes referring to individual child’s responses, his or her questions, ideas, and incentives, the course of cognitive and creative process, communication with the peers and teachers and other potential particularities.

• Language: Unknown
• Keywords: umetnost
• Work type: Not categorized
• Organization: PEF - Faculty of Education
• Publisher: DavidPublishing
• Year: 2014
• Number of pages: 563-572
• Numbering: 4
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-69234
• Publication date in RUL: 10.07.2015

Secondary language

• Language: Unknown
• Keywords: preschool children