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标题：The Arts, Loose Parts and Conversations
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作者：Sheryl Smith-Gilman
期刊名称：Journal of the Canadian Association for Curriculum Studies
印刷版ISSN：1916-4467
出版年度：2018
卷号：16
期号：1
页码：90-103
语种：English
出版社：Journal of the Canadian Association for Curriculum Studies
其他摘要：Educators today are being asked to design curricula whereby learners’ abilities to analyze, question, problem-solve, evaluate and reflect are being provoked. The quest lies in uncovering suitable teaching approaches that will allow critical thinking skills to emerge organically and meaningfully. I argue that an integration of loose parts can offer a methodology and a provocation that makes way for open-ended, divergent and creative thinking skills to be activated. “Loose parts” can be open-ended materials that are manipulated, designed, dismantled and reconstructed in multiple ways. I also see “loose parts” as a mindset, a process-oriented approach whereby meaningful conversations emerge unexpectedly and add significantly to learning. This article presents two stories to show how arts-based approaches and mindfulness to loose parts can unearth thought-filled and caring conversations. The discussion is inspired and written via a reflective lens of personal encounters, first, in a longitudinal research project with young children in an Indigenous First Nations Community, and, second, with preservice teachers in a university class. It is within these periods that students, teachers and families were impacted by loose parts whereby materials and conversations made way for new perspectives in understanding the world.
其他关键词：loose parts;loose-part mindset;open-ended curriculum;arts-based education;early childhood education;preservice teacher education