Education Through Visual Arts in the Process of Preparing a Child in Middle and Late Childhood to Be Visually Competent Cover Image

Edukacja przez sztuki wizualne w procesie przygotowania dziecka w okresie średniego i późnego dzieciństwa do stawania się kompetentnym wizualnie
Education Through Visual Arts in the Process of Preparing a Child in Middle and Late Childhood to Be Visually Competent

Author(s): Hanna Krauze-Sikorska
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Education, Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Visual Arts, Educational Psychology, Pedagogy
Published by: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Marii Curie-Sklodowskiej
Keywords: image culture; visual literacy; visual arts; child; educating through visual arts

Summary/Abstract: In this article, I would like to make an attempt at a kind of return (probably incomplete and limited) to a unique, due to the potential of its content and forms, process of education of a child through visual arts (optical arts, visual arts) that allows the child to perceive, understand and create the surrounding iconosphere, gradually acquiring competences connected with “visual literacy”. The activities that foster such an activity of the child do not abandon the traditional assumptions of “education through art”, but complement them with new challenges and perspectives. The area of analysis, pointing to theoretical foundations and a review of literature, is reduced in the article to a discourse on the importance of visual literacy as one of the basic human competences and the possibility of using the potential of visual arts in the process of preparing children, already at the level of middle and late childhood, to become visually competent persons in the future.

  • Issue Year: 5/2021
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 215-227
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: English