Journal article
Children's Meaning Making: Listening to Encounters with Complex Aesthetic Experience
Education sciences, Vol.13(1), pp.1-18
01/2023
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Abstract
This paper describes young children's symbolic meaning-making practices and participation in complex aesthetic experiences in a contemporary art museum context. Through an ongoing long-term research and pedagogy project, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia (MCA) is working with researchers to provide regular opportunities for young children (aged birth-5 years) and their families-all members of the same early childhood education (ECE) services-to encounter art works, engage with materials, and experience the museum environment. The program provides a rich experience of multiple forms of communication, ways of knowing and ways of expressing knowings: through connecting with images, videos and told stories about artists and their practice, sensorial engagement with tactile materials, and embodied responses to artworks and materials. Children also experience the physicality of the museum space, materials for art-making and the act of mark-making to record ideas, memories, and reflections. The project supports the development of a pedagogy of listening and relationships and is grounded in children's rights as cultural citizens to participation, visibility and belonging in cultural institutions such as the MCA.
Details
- Title
- Children's Meaning Making: Listening to Encounters with Complex Aesthetic Experience
- Creators
- Belinda Davis - Macquarie UniversityRosemary Dunn - Macquarie University
- Publication Details
- Education sciences, Vol.13(1), pp.1-18
- Publisher
- MDPI
- Number of pages
- 18
- Grant note
- This research was funded by the Medich Foundation, directly the Museum of Contemparary Arts, Sydney.
- Identifiers
- 991013370739902368
- Copyright
- © 2023 by the authors.
- Academic Unit
- Faculty of Education
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article