Creating Change

This valuable introductory resource for first-time elementary and middle school art teachers explores participatory, learner-centered methodologies using the South African outcomes-based educational model, which structures assessment procedures into the learning program. Interwoven throughout are themes designed to educate children about the world around them, incorporating social and cultural issues important to the healthy development of this age group. Exceptional for new art teachers searching for proven ways to bring out the natural creativity of their students, activities include Discussion of Rights and Democratic Processes in the Classroom; Understanding Posters (Design and Meaning); Drawing in the Mood; and Dancing and Drawing Combined with Sculpture.

“This book took me back to my training and then added more. It reminded me that pre-school should be an adventure and the art period an exploration of body and mind.”  —Suzy Eisenhardt, pre-primary school teacher

Lindy Anne Solomon is the author of Creative Beginnings and Khula Udweba. She has been training teachers for more than 20 years and, in 2005, she established the Awakening Spirit Through Art (ASTAR) project.