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Author Sedgwick, Fred

Title Enabling Children's Learning Through Drawing
Published Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (126 pages)
Contents Cover; Dedication; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; The pregnant horse in the Pileta caves; The goose's foot; Bealings Primary School; 1 Faces and Cats; The faces; The cats; 2 African Carvings and an Ancient Greek Horse; 3 Biros; Habitat and hessian schools; Working with biros; 4 Felt Tips, and the Movement and the Anger; The anger; 5 Drawing Blind and Drawing Outside; Drawing blind; Drawing outside; The climbing frame: the spaces between things; 6 Further Ideas; Drawing inspired by poetry; Drawing inspired by close observation of parts of the children's own bodies
An impossible placeDrawing as a preparation for using other media; Drawing a story; Drawing while listening to music; Viewfinders; Some tentative conclusions; A note about the 'I can't draw' feeling; A note about graphic tools; References; Further Reading
Summary At the heart of this book is an emphasis on helping children to learn about themselves, their world and their relationships, through drawing. It also shows how teachers can use drawing as an in road into art, language, literacy, and other aspects of the curriculum; how children can improve their writing through drawing, concentrating on draftsmanship, the lines of letters, words and sentences; and how children can improve the quality of their drawing; with four basic rules that have been proven to raise standards throughout school. Based on case studies of children from six to
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Subject Drawing -- Study and teaching (Elementary) -- Great Britain
Art in education -- Great Britain
EDUCATION -- Elementary.
Art in education
Drawing -- Study and teaching (Elementary)
Great Britain
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781134141982
113414198X