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The Story in the Picture: Inquiry and Artmaking with Young Children

reviewed by Angela Eckhoff � December 21, 2009

Title: The Story in the Picture: Inquiry and Artmaking with Young Children
Author(s): Christine Mulcahey
Publisher: Teachers College Press, New York
ISBN: 0807750077, Pages: 120, Year: 2009
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The frequent inclusion of the arts in contemporary early childhood classrooms necessitates the exploration of pedagogical practices that best support the implementation of rich, embedded arts programming. In The Story in the Picture: Inquiry and Artmaking With Young Children (2009) Christine Mulcahey presents a framework for transforming early arts classroom practices from those that are either too open-ended or too closed to those that encourage young children to think like artists. Similar to other books in the Early Childhood Education Series, edited by Leslie R. Williams, The Story in the Picture: Inquiry and Artmaking With Young Children successfully provides a pedagogical framework for pre-service and in-service educators while also contributing to the larger global discussion of the visual arts in contemporary early childhood education. In this essay, I join in conversation with Dr. Mulcahey by following a brief overview of each chapter with an exploration of themes I find particularly... (preview truncated at 150 words.)

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Angela Eckhoff Clemson University E-mail Author ANGELA ECKHOFF, PhD, is an assistant professor of early childhood education at Clemson University in South Carolina. Her research focuses on visual arts pedagogy in early childhood education, imagination and creative development during childhood, and informal learning environments for children and families.

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