Digital Technologies in Early Childhood Art Enabling Playful Experiences

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Synopsis

Through art children make sense of their experiences and the world around them. Drawing, painting, collage and modelling are open-ended and playful processes through which children engage in physical exploration, aesthetic decision-making, identity construction and social understanding. As digital technologies become increasingly prevalent in the lives of young children, there is a pressing need to understand how digital technologies shape important experiences in early childhood, including early childhood art. Mona Sakr shows the need to consider how particular dimensions of the art-making process are changed by the use of digital technologies and what can be done by parents, practitioners and designers to enable children to adopt playful and creative practices in their interactions with digital technologies. Incorporating different theoretical perspectives, including social semiotics and posthumanism, and drawing on various research studies, this book highlights how children engage with different facets of art-making with digital technologies including: remix and mash-up; distributed ownership; imagined audiences and changed sensory and social interactions.

Book details

Author:
Mona Sakr
ISBN:
9781474271912
Related ISBNs:
9781350079731
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pages:
N/A
Reading age:
Not specified
Includes images:
Yes
Date of addition:
2019-01-16
Usage restrictions:
Copyright
Copyright date:
2018
Copyright by:
Mona Sakr 
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Categories:
Art and Architecture, Computers and Internet, Education, Nonfiction, Technology