Young Children Visit Museums: Cultural and Creative Perspectives

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Social & cultural anthropology

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Wordery

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Taylor & francis

Young Children Visit Museums: Cultural and Creative Perspectives : Routledge : 9781032078427 : 1032078421 : 06 Sep 2022 : Bringing different cultural perspectives on creativity with them, teachers and children in two early childhood education sites in Aotearoa New Zealand were using museum visits as jumping off places to hone their creative capacity building. As a contribution to Tim Ingold's discussion of anthropology and/as education, and also finding John Dewey's writing valuable (specifically his framing of ?enduring attitudes'), the authors employ a navigation metaphor throughout the discussion. They describe a coming together of four Cultural Anchors (thinking from materials) with four Coordinates (creative capacity builders) to describe ways in which the children were making creative sense of the museum exhibits, while at the same time gathering information about them. They take these travel metaphors from a star cluster in the southern hemisphere night sky, Matariki, which p

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