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Introduction:
During my practical training in the kindergarten Ive noticed while working with children,
with the age between three and five years, that they have a special attraction to new discoveries,
showing a great fascination for exploration. It also has an important role the pedagogue who
helps the child explore the world and in the same time helping him develop and acquire new
skills, representing a good start in life. I want to sustain in my synopsis, approaches and concepts
which include childs art in his life, enabling an attractive range of materials and safe
environment in which children can develop and learn while being happy and having fun.
My goal is to develop childrens motivantion using various materials around them, creativity
educational processes as well as terms of nature by using their own body with the help of sensory
exploration.
Concepts of art teaching
Defining The Art- Spontaneity, imagination, play, experimentation and lack of inhibition
are desirable compornents of making art and for promoting freedom of expression. Children
learn to express themselves in different ways- not just verbaly.. Artistic learning experience
accomodate student with different learning styles and also those student with emotional needs
or behavioral problems. (Benefits of the Art in the kindergaten An ESL Perspective.)
Integration of the child in the art- When the arts are integrated in the early childhood
curriculum, children are given opportunities to express themselves visually, what they may not
be able to say verbally.Young children can develop indepence, confidence pride, and self
expression through hands learning in a environment that stimulates creativity through art.
This undelines once again our important role, we as pedagogues have to guide our students
through the creative process. There are four recommended methods that can be used for guided
learning in arts: (Benefits of Art in the kindergarten)
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Modeling or demonstrating
Providing descriptive feedback
Asking questions to extend

- Explorenting to help organize

- Childrens thought
- Childrens ideas and understanding

I will argue with the aid of theoretical in on early childhood visual art education (Jannie
Visser, ACE paper):
The Froebellian influence on art education, his pedagogy acknowledge childhood as a unique
stage in life, and encouraged children to be creative and expressive through self directed play.
Activity around Froebels gift and occupation such as: weving, clay mounding, drawing, paper
folding, sewing and stick laying structured play and role of pedagogue was that of the

technicist whose duty it was to teach through sense-experiences. a series of concepts about
geometrical solids colours relationships and the nature and quality of the materials used
Froebellian model has illustrated as real learning or work while involvement in the
disciplines of the creative arts is seen as a play. Eflands (1990) three of influence:
The Expressionst- where art is seen as a while to emotial expressiveness; Reconstructionist- art
as a inter disciplinary tool of analysis; Scientific rationalist stream- discipline with on
empirical knowledge base. ( cited in Siegesmund 1998, pp 199-207)
Gardners views on chil drens learning and developm ent in art . Construct
meaning and understanding in art through individual, self-directed, discovery and
exploration of the environment, using their sense motor, actions and increased mastery of
symbolic tools and systems.
Through Reggio Emilia approch art and education are seen as social cultural and cognitive
activities. Adults their interventions in childrens learning to encourange the use of the many
form of symbolic language to express their ideas and further their understanding of art
production.
KindergARTen- According Froeble, garden of children was created to teach children how
to observe, reason, express and create as a way to learn about their place in the universe.
Mastering the forms of learning. Froeble established three forms of learning that helped
pedagogue facilitate chidrens inventions. The three forms of learning are : Form of Lifeare forms that are seen in the childs daily life (such as house, chair, or table,etc);
Form of knowledge- promote understanding of mathematical and scientific. Froeble suggested
that children understand form of knowledge throught bock manipulation. Form of beauty- this
form focuses on symmetry, harmony, balance and unity of construction. Symmetry gives the
impression of beauty to the childish eye (Retracing the Roots of Kindergarten as an Art & Design
Academy, pp. 6-7)

Therefore Froebels concepts provides the necessary tool resources and spaces for children to
best exhibit their inner throughts, felling and drems.
Conclusion
Using this concepts and principles will be to promote a childs social, emotional, and
academic development throught art and play. Also opportunity to practice the arts have a
multiple benefits, some of with are access multiple intelligences, enhance multicultural
understanding, build self-esteem, engage through a variety of learning styles.
Having as strong support these assertions, I can say that childrens involvement in creative
processes of knowledge will lead them to solve problems and to use it as a pleasant and easthetic
menner as part of learning.

Bibliography:

The historical, philosophical and theoretical influences on early childhood visual arts
education in Aotearoa New Zealand.- Jannie Visser 25 Visser September 2005,
ACEpapers;
Benefits of the Arts in Kindergarten An ESL Perspective- Helena Aletta Sophia Prins,
Tainan, Taiwan;
Aesthetic Codes in Early childhood classrooms: What art Educators can learn from
Reggio Emilia;
Retracing the Roots of Kindergarten as an Art & design academy by Ryan Kurada
Sonoma State University.
Exploring Art in Early Childhood Education-Danielle Twigg, Griffith University,
Queensland, Australia; Susanne Garvis, Griffith University, Queensland, Australia