Finger painting – an alternative form of children’s expression

Authors:

Pages: 184-194

Abstract:

This report aims to contribute to solving educational problems in teaching and training of preschool children by promoting and enhancing the quality of innovative practices. Raised is the question of the need to ensure creative communication, as desirable and important for preschool children and their parents, form of cultural progress and individual prosperity. The main idea is based on the long-term strategic objective of developing and changing patterns of culture through education of the children in spontaneity, creativity and improvisation; it achieves inner harmony between the diverse aspects of life, connecting the emotional and rational – intellectual aspects of child art. The report draws attention to affordable self-expression – without the limitations of talents, age, capacity, social status and ethnicity, as prevention to the problems of modern society (alienation, verbal aggression and power, fear of failure etc.). A closer to psychological teaching methodologies and psychotherapeutic practice is presented with the use of art therapy (in particular – finger painting), highlighting the development and adjustment of the various sides of the child’s psychology in the cognitive and emotional-personal sphere.

Keywords:

Download

NA / Asia/Pacific Region / Australia / Bulgaria / Canada / China / Cote D'Ivoire / Europe / France / Germany / Greece / Iceland / Indonesia / Iraq / Korea, Republic of / Lithuania / Macedonia / Norway / Portugal / Russian Federation / Singapore / Spain / Sweden / Switzerland / Turkey / Ukraine / United Kingdom / United States