Invention of Childhood Creativity - Colonialities and the Production of Difference

This text offers a comprehensive analysis of the concept of the modern creative and imaginative child in Western education.

List of contents

Series Foreword: Routledge Cultural Studies in Knowledge, Curriculum and Education
Acknowledgements
Introduction: An Image of the Creative Child
1. 'Child-as-Primitive' and the Naturalization of Imagination in Childhood
2. The Seduction of Nature in Arts Education
3. Playing The Child As An Artist, Or The Government Of The Child's Soul
4. The Normalization of Children's Creativity: Developmentalism As a Style of Reasoning Through Children's Drawings
5. The Historical Ambiguities Surrounding Imagination: The Government Of The Hopes And Fears Of The Child's Imaginative Mind
Looking back... and looking forward
References
Index

About the author

Cat Martins is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Porto, Portugal. They are also Director of the doctoral program in Arts Education.

Summary

This text offers a comprehensive analysis of the concept of the modern creative and imaginative child in Western education.

Product details

• Authors: Cat Martins
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.11.2024
• EAN: 9780367503642
• ISBN: 978-0-367-50364-2
• No. of pages: 202
• Series: Routledge Cultural Studies in Knowledge, Curriculum, and Education
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > School education, didactics, methodology; EDUCATION / General, EDUCATION / Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects, EDUCATION / Arts in Education, Philosophy & theory of education, Philosophy and theory of education, Teaching of a specific subject, Primary & middle schools, Pre-school & kindergarten, Pre-school and kindergarten, Primary and middle schools