Acknowledgements
Preface
Introduction: Research in Primary Art Education
Steve Herne, Sue Cox and Robert Watts
Chapter 1 Art in the Primary School: Toward First Principles
Geoffrey Southworth
Chapter 2 Art and the Pre-Adolescent Child—Applying Witkin’s Theory of Subject-Reflexive Action
Frank Dobson and David Jackson
Chapter 3 Marion Richardson
Bruce Holdsworth
Chapter 4An Analysis of the Presentation of Art in the British Primary School Curriculum and its Implications for Teaching
Jenny Hallam, Helen Lee and Mani Das Gupta
Chapter 5 In Search of a Curriculum Model for the Primary Schools
Gillian Figg
Chapter 6 Compatibility; Incompatibility? Froebelian Principles and the Art Curriculum
Margaret Payne
Chapter 7 Breadth and Balance? The Impact of the National Literacy and Numeracy Strategies on Art in the Primary School
Steve Herne
Chapter 8 Changing Views of Childhood and their Effects on Continuity in the Teaching of Drawing
Sheila Paine
Chapter 9 How Children Use Drawing
Dennis Atkinson
Chapter 10 Teaching Children to Draw in The Infants School
Maureen Cox, Grant Cooke, and Deidre Griffin
Chapter 11 Conversations around Young Children’s Drawing: The Impact of the Beliefs of Significant Others at Home and School
Angela Anning
Chapter 12 Intention and Meaning in Young Children’s Drawing
Sue Cox
Chapter 13 Originalities and Originals, Copies and Reproductions: Reflections on a Primary School Project
Anthony Dyson
Chapter 14 Art Learning in Developmental Perspective
Norman Freeman
Chapter 15 Teaching Now with the Living: A Dialogue with Teachers Investigating Contemporary Art Practices
Tara Page, Steve Herne, Paul Dash, Helen Charman, Dennis Atkinson, and Jeff Adams
Chapter 16 5x5x5 = Creativity in the Early Years
Mary Fawcett and Penny Hay
Chapter 17 Tuition or Intuition? Making Sketchbooks with a Group of Ten-Year-Old Children
Gillian Robinson
Chapter 18 An Art Enrichment Project for Eight to Ten-Year-Olds in the Ordinary Classroom
Angela Martin
Chapter 19 Electronic Paint: Understanding Children’s Representation through their Interaction with Digital Paint
John Matthews and Peter Seow
Chapter 20 Attitudes to Making Art in the Primary School
Robert Watts
Chapter 21 Room 13: One Artist, 11 years, One School
Anna Harding
Notes on Contributors
Index
