Art has always been a significant part throughout my life, it first started off as a hobby, but later on evolved professionally when my teachers saw potential in me. The learning journey of Art has helped me to nurture and recognise my artistic and aesthetic talents. Not only has it allowed me to develop skills and techniques in art such as painting and drawing it also, opened opportunities for me to appreciate the history and culture of the wider world. My Art teachers played a significant role in my development as they pushed me in reaching my potential this captured my admiration and has inspired me to become like them one day.In this essay I will be taking you step by step into my learning journey of art and will be considering a range
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Similarly Bruce (2011) believed play enables children to think in abstract ways, being able to develop their own theory of mind, being creative and imaginative as well as being flexible thinkers. This shows us that Bruce also agrees with play, playing an important factor in boosting creativity and imagination among children. I agree with Bruce by experimenting with new things such as paints, clay, wood, watercolours etc. it has given me the mental ability to think about a range of concepts simultaneously which allowed me to start processing new thoughts, ideas and knowledge. In addition to this Piaget (1986) also had a theory on children 's play. Piaget(1986) put forward a theory that children would go through 3 stages which were practice play, symbolic play and games with rules. Each of these stages helped strengthen children 's knowledge and it is through play that they were able to gain a understanding of their world. Piaget 's ideas are widely known and are currently being used in pre-school settings as a tool on helping children to learn (Paiget cited in Tassoni, 2007). In addition to this Froebel (1782) also shared a similar view to Piaget he believed that children will need to have experience with working and playing with different materials, equipment and activities so that …show more content…
Engaging children to be creative and imaginative allows them to focus their concentration this develops their fine motor skills as well their eye coordination (Eugster, 2016). During school I felt Art was the only subject I felt comfortable in as I was able to be myself. My art teacher gave us different materials and equipment to play with through painting, sketching, collaging and clay I was able to work through emotions and make decisions which I felt was right, this allowed me to express my ideas.During lessons my teacher would never give us set tasks or directions she would always say think outside the box, be as creative and imaginative as you want. This made me comfortable in having full control over materials and what to do with them. I built a sense of gratitude of knowledge over materials which resulted in new creations.Furthermore (Herr, 2001) also believed by engaging children to be creative and imaginative young children are learning social and language skills as they are interacting with their teacher and peers. It also allows children to learn about their likes and dislikes and also teaches them to share and respect property . She went on to say how creativity opens opportunity for children to
Similarly Bruce (2011) believed play enables children to think in abstract ways, being able to develop their own theory of mind, being creative and imaginative as well as being flexible thinkers. This shows us that Bruce also agrees with play, playing an important factor in boosting creativity and imagination among children. I agree with Bruce by experimenting with new things such as paints, clay, wood, watercolours etc. it has given me the mental ability to think about a range of concepts simultaneously which allowed me to start processing new thoughts, ideas and knowledge. In addition to this Piaget (1986) also had a theory on children 's play. Piaget(1986) put forward a theory that children would go through 3 stages which were practice play, symbolic play and games with rules. Each of these stages helped strengthen children 's knowledge and it is through play that they were able to gain a understanding of their world. Piaget 's ideas are widely known and are currently being used in pre-school settings as a tool on helping children to learn (Paiget cited in Tassoni, 2007). In addition to this Froebel (1782) also shared a similar view to Piaget he believed that children will need to have experience with working and playing with different materials, equipment and activities so that …show more content…
Engaging children to be creative and imaginative allows them to focus their concentration this develops their fine motor skills as well their eye coordination (Eugster, 2016). During school I felt Art was the only subject I felt comfortable in as I was able to be myself. My art teacher gave us different materials and equipment to play with through painting, sketching, collaging and clay I was able to work through emotions and make decisions which I felt was right, this allowed me to express my ideas.During lessons my teacher would never give us set tasks or directions she would always say think outside the box, be as creative and imaginative as you want. This made me comfortable in having full control over materials and what to do with them. I built a sense of gratitude of knowledge over materials which resulted in new creations.Furthermore (Herr, 2001) also believed by engaging children to be creative and imaginative young children are learning social and language skills as they are interacting with their teacher and peers. It also allows children to learn about their likes and dislikes and also teaches them to share and respect property . She went on to say how creativity opens opportunity for children to