ABSTRACT

Firmly based on the authors’ personal experience, this book tackles a wide range of issues relating to the teaching of the arts in the primary school. The authors illustrate how primary children of all ages can be educated to both know about and to practice all the major art forms, and how a school staff can effectively accommodate and practice them all, even within the constraints of the National Curriculum. This book is unique in primary school education terms, as its primary focus is specific and it embraces every major art form – dance, drama, literature, music, visual arts and film.

chapter |5 pages

Introduction

part I|68 pages

Theory

chapter 1|21 pages

The Arts in the Primary School

Addressing the Aesthetic

chapter 2|21 pages

The Major Art Forms

Their Recent Histories within Education

chapter 4|6 pages

Educating for the Arts

Implications for Training

part II|119 pages

Practice

chapter |3 pages

Introduction

chapter 5|27 pages

The Arts and the School Environment

Establishing an Ethos

chapter 6|25 pages

The Arts and the Creative Use of Language

Stimulus, Strategies and Realization

chapter 7|26 pages

The Art of Science and the Science of Art

Learning in and through the Arts

chapter 8|26 pages

All of the Arts Some of the Time

Communal Celebration and Cultural Festival

chapter |11 pages

Postscript

The Aesthetic Library and the National Curriculum