Open AccessArt Making as a Political and Ethical Practice
Author(s) -
Vanessa Clark
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
journal of childhood studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2371-4115
pISSN - 2371-4107
DOI - 10.18357/jcs.v37i1.15187
Subject(s) - autoethnography , the arts , politics , sociology , visual arts education , pedagogy , aesthetics , visual arts , political science , social science , art , law
This paper is an effort to explore arts in early childhood education and care. Drawing on the author’s master’s thesis, autoethnography is engaged to open up discussions of the politics and ethics of arts practice. This paper presents some common ways that art making is approached in the classroom and sug-gests some ways to disrupt these approaches. In conclusion, a useful tool is suggested to support this process of disruption.