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Tables of Contents for The Arts in Children's Lives
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Foreword
1
4
Prelude
5
4
I. Context Interlude
9
78
Children's contextual art knowledge: Local art and school art context Comparisons
15
14
What's to be learned? Comments on teaching music in the world and teaching world music at home
29
14
Becoming Japanese: Manga, children's drawings, and the construction of national character
43
14
The musical cultures of children
57
14
Playing the music: Comparing children's song and dance in Namibian Education
71
16
II. Development Interlude
87
66
We begin as poets: Conceptual tools and the arts in early childhood
93
8
Constructing an artistic self A cultural perspective
101
12
Early childhood musical development
113
16
Drawing together: Peer influence in preschool-kindergarten art classes
129
10
Fictional worlds and the real world in early childhood drama education
139
14
III. Curriculum Interlude
153
84
What we teach is who we are: The stories of our lives
157
12
School art as a hybrid genre: Institutional contexts for art curriculum
169
16
Early childhood literacy education, wakefulness, and the arts
185
10
Pleasure, creativity, and the caroivalesque in children's video production
195
20
Music technology and the young child
215
22
Afterwords
237
2
List of Contributors
239
6
Name Index
245