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Teaching to Support Children's Artistic Independence: How Children's Creativity Can Inform Art Education, is a qualitative study of children's personal stories, experiments and experiences. It describes for teachers the importance of teaching children artistic independence and the power of developing thinking, emotional growth and learning to value the importance and power of a child's thoughts and how this has a foundation in the art class room. This book is especially important because it's a testament to children and their development and that they are the stars in the art classroom. The book gives a perspective on the importance of young artists as thinkers, and inventors. It goes further to discuss how young artists should be encouraged to develop their primary thoughts and be encouraged to search for meaning and ways to materialize their thoughts. Ultimately, Szekely states young artists need to value themselves and while doing this they will develop cognitive skills such as the ability to perceive and react, process and understand, store information, make decisions and produce visual images. The book gives rich examples of how making art in the art room can lead to a lifetime of unlimited rich thoughts and creative inventions. -- Dr. Bernard Young, Professor, Arizona State University, USA

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George Szekely is Senior Professor and Area Head of Art Education at the University of Kentucky, USA. He is the author of numerous books including Art Teaching, Play and Creativity in Art Teaching, and Art Rooms as Centers for Design Education, all published by Routledge.

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