title: The Creative Arts: A Process Approach for Teachers and Children (3rd Edition)
author: Linda Carol Edwards
description: This unique book engages future teachers in the processes of creativity to encourage creative growth and participation in their classrooms. It emphasizes process, rather than product, so teachers learn that once they tap into their own creativity they are better equipped to help children participate in the creative process. The author's goal is to shift readers from depending on prescribed activities and products to a more secure awareness of everyone's ability to participate in the creative process, regardless of the product. Discusses noteworthy studies in music and movement, art, creative dramatics, and literature. Highlights the potential of multicultural arts as a resource for creative expression and awareness. Includes a section on national standards for visual and performing arts and the President's committee on the arts and humanities. Addresses the eight intelligence (naturalist) and discusses all eight intelligences in each chapter. For future teachers of the creative arts.
zlib_text: NATIONAL FOUNDATION
  FOR EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH
  Developing
  Young Children’s
  Creativity
  Through the Arts:
  What Does Research Have to
  Offer?
  Caroline Sharp
  Paper presented to an invitational seminar,
  Chadwick Street Recreation Centre, London, 14 February, 2001
  
  Developing Young Children’s
  Creativity Through the Arts: What
  Does Research Have to Offer?
  Caroline Sharp
  NFER
  Introduction
  In September 2000, the Arts Council of England commissioned the National
  Foundation for Educational Research to carry out a ‘scoping exercise’ into creativity
  and child development.  The intention was to undertake an exploration of the field,
  rather than a detailed literature review.
  This paper sets out to provide an overview of the current state of research and
  thinking on the relationship between the arts and creative development in young
  children (aged three to six years).  The main purpose of the exercise was to identify
  issues, gaps and priorities for further research.
  This was a complex and challenging tas