Author: Devi Prasad
Publisher: National Book Trust
Year: 2008
Language: English
Pages: 182
ISBN/UPC (if available): 9788123723143
Description
Based on the author's experience with Children and Teachers as a Teacher of Art at the Nayee Talim Educational Institute, Gandhiji's ashram, Sevagram, the Book is a pioneering Study enunciating the essentiality of art as the basis of education.
Emphasizing the need for the development of an all round personality and the function of art expression therein, the book takes a detailed look into the importance of art, stages of its expression in a child, its importance in shaping the individual's thinking and Cognitive faculty, the role of teachers and Parents and most importantly its role in an angst-ridden society.
Contents
Foreword
Prelude
Preface
1. Why Art Education?
2. The Children's Angle
3. Psychogenesis of Child Art
4. Adolescence
5. Adolescence and Creativity
6. The Teacher and the Educational Atmosphere
7. Methodology of Child Art
8. Art Appreciation
9. Questions and Answers
Appendices
Bibliography
Index