Affective & Social Development and Art & Craft
Posted on | September 16, 2009 | 2 Comments
Self -concept can be defined as the child’s growing awareness of his or her own characteristics(physical appearance, skills, and abilities) and how these are similar or different from those of others.
Children like to feel good about themselves to develop self-acceptance/self-esteem. They will do things well and have good sense of self-acceptance to accept their strength and limitation. Art and craft activities can help develop sense of self-acceptance. The program must be child-centered.
When the child is able to accept himself, he will be able to accept other children
Encourage self-acceptance through art:
- Accept children at their present developmental level
- Provide an environment that is comfortable for the age level of the group
- Provide materials and activities that are age appropriate
- Provide creative materialss and activities that the child can work and complete by themselves
Expression of thoughts:
- art acitivities provide endless opportunities for a child to learn how other children feel about things
- experience ideas and feelings of an age-mate
- exciting things for a child, it can also be hard for some children to accept it at first
- learn to accept and share ideas
- they will learn that people can have different feelings and ideas can still be friends, this will develop child-to-child relationship
Expression if feelings:
- translate personal feelings as well as ideas
- emotional catharsis
- usage of colours and size or placement of representation often reflect healthy emotions which are difficult to express in words
Child-to-teacher relationship:
- teacher is important person in the child’s eyes
- take their teacher seriously
- learns new ways to be with an adult in the early childhood program
- opens up new type of relationship as teacher is an adult that is not the child’s parents
- learns how to share an adult attention with other children
- teacher helps the child discover himself through art
- teacher helps them feel safe to be themselves and express their ideas in their own way
Child-to-group relationship:
- learn to be in a group and it’s not the same as being in a family
- learn about following rules and instructions
- learn how to share and cooperate
- discover their leadership potential
- learn about advantages and disadvantages of being in a group
- learning to respect others
- learn about being members of a group in school can help them as members of social group outside the school
- learn self-discipline
- resolve interpersonal conflicts
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October 24th, 2009 @ 2:01 am
I always find it so fake the way adults keep going “Wow, that’s amazing! Fantastic! Clever boy/girl!” in such an obviously sarcastic sounding (to an adult) tone to praise children.
Haha, perhaps I just need more practice.
Regards
Mark
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October 24th, 2009 @ 3:55 pm
Mark, it’s all boil down to how the adult is using their voice when praising or “praising” a child. A child knows when you are not sincere, that’s why sincere praising is important. Even though it’s ugly, it’s the child’s art work that there is no right or wrong answer. If there is nothing positive to say then better don’t say anything or use a different approach such as talking to the child about his art work. As long that no negative statement that will kill the child’s confidence/self-esteem is used.