Children and Their Art: Methods for the Elementary School

by Al Hurwitz and Michael Day

Book Overview

This comprehensive resource for teaching art to children combines the latest thinking about the teaching of art with focus on providing a balanced art program. The authors provide all of the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0495006963
• ISBN13: 9780495006961
• Release Date: May 2006
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing Company
• Length: 438 Pages
• Weight: 3.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 10.2" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Satisfied Customer

The book looks brand new and I received it in less than a week. I am very satisfied and would highly recommend.

Expensive, but worth it

I am beginning art teacher and I have found this book incredibly helpful. What I like most about it is that it is thorough, but condensed. It covers a lot of important information in an accessible and easy to read way. A great overview on child development, and practical methods for the Elementary Art Classroom. A great reference.

Professional Review

Children and Their Art is the most comprehensive textbook available for teaching art education methods. This bestselling textbook covers all aspects of teaching art in the elementary classroom: the basic principles and goals of art education, the characteristics and needs of children as learners, the core principles of art as a subject-aesthetics, principles of design, art history, art media-and all aspects of instruction-curriculum planning, sample lessons, classroom management, and assessment. The seventh edition has been thoroughly updated and includes coverage of the National Standards for Art Education as well as the impact of postmodern thought on the practice of art education. It also provides a concise overview of child development theories and the latest findings on child development and brain research, including Howard Gardner's theory of Multiple Intelligences.

Great Teacher Resource -- for the arts

This is a great book to use in a pre-service teacher education program. However, I am a long-time art educator and I still refer to it because it has a wide range of information on issues we encounter every day. This year I am teaching the art class for undergraduate elementary teachers and it is proving a very valuable resource. It is written in a readable, highly practical way with lots of examples that make adding art into an elementary curriculum not seem so foreign or so daunting. I do feel that there is a need for other supplemental reading and resources to accompany this text, but it is a great overall art education text, especially for the generalist teacher.