Fragments from/of child art
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https://doi.org/10.26512/vis.v16i2.20749Keywords:
Early childhood education. Public Pedagogy. a/r/tography. Quiltmaking.Abstract
My practice as a teacher and artist/academic in early childhood education has always attended to children and materials. Fragments I gathered from and with Child Art (Viola, 1942) have circled back (Burke, Lasczik Cutcher, Peterken & Potts, 2017) and have me contemplating the images and quilt made with young children aged one to five years in their long day care setting (Peterken, 2009, unpublished honours dissertation). Digital photographs produced by children to show ‘what is important’ are pieces of their lives and learning. These images transferred to fabric and made into a quilt, a community artwork, are becoming more than product or process. They are provocations for thinking with materials and the learning, play and worlds of young children. Fragments to consider, as suggested by Christina MacRae (2012), how the encounter was productive.
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