Typical art resources for teachers offer discrete art activities, but
these don't carry children or teachers into the practice of using the
languages of art. This resource offers guidance for teachers to create
space, time, and intentional processes for children's exploration and
learning to use art for asking questions, offering insights, exploring
hypotheses, and examining experiences from unfamiliar perspectives.
Inspired by an approach to teaching and learning born in Reggio Emilia,
Italy, The Language of Art, Second Edition, includes:
- A new art exploration for teachers to gain experience before
implementing the practice with children
- Advice on setting up a studio space for art and inquiry
- Suggestions on documenting children's developing fluency with art
media and its use in inquiry
- Inspiring photographs and ideas to show you how inquiry-based
practices can work in any early childhood setting
Ann Pelo is a teacher educator, program consultant, and author whose
primary work focuses on reflective pedagogical practice, social justice
and ecological teaching and learning and the art of mentoring.
Currently, Pelo consults early childhood educators and administrators in
North America, Australia, and New Zealand on inquiry-based teaching and
learning, pedagogical leadership, and the necessary place of ecological
identity in children's--and adults'--lives. She is the author of several
books including the first edition of The Language of Art and co-author
of Rethinking Early Childhood Education.
