Floating Experiences: Empowering Early Childhood Educators to Encourage Critical Thinking in Young Children Through the Visual Arts

Abstract

Engagement in the arts… nurtures the development of cognitive, social, and personal competencies… when well taught, the arts provide young children with authentic learning experiences that engage their minds (Arts Education Partnership, 1999, p. 2).

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Notes on contributors

Kathy Danko-Mcghee

Kathy Danko-McGhee is Associate Professor and Early Childhood Art Education Coordinator at the University of Toledo and an early childhood consultant to the Toledo Museum of Art. E-mail: [email protected]

Ruslan Slutsky

Ruslan Slutsky is Assistant Professor of Early Childhood Education at the University of Toledo.