Why read Languages of Learning?

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In "The Languages of Learning" Karen Gallas offers a new approach to understanding how young children in early and elementary grades communicate their knowledge of the world and the ways in which that kind of understanding can transform the educative process. In addition to expanding the traditional definition of narrative…

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Shaun McNiff

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Karen Gallas introduced me in the early 1970s to the integration of various forms of artistic expression in the education of young children, based on the work of Sylvia Ashton-Warner and Elwyn Richardson in New Zealand and the British Infant School movement, which inspired experimental education in the United States.

Languages of Learning grew from Gallas’s classroom research exploring how artistic thinking enabled children with various language, cultural, and learning differences to participate fully in the learning process that she presented as “arts as epistemology” in a symposium with Maxine Greene and others published in the Harvard Educational Review.…

From Shaun's list on artistic intelligence and research through art.