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    Free Art Learning With Kids, Introduction Book-I
    Free Art Learning With Kids, Introduction Book-I
    Free Art Learning With Kids, Introduction Book-I
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    Free Art Learning With Kids, Introduction Book-I

    By Sonja Tanrisever and Esin Tanrisever

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    As the authors of Free Art Learning With Kids, our motto is: Children’s Creativity Should Definitely Not Get Restricted!

    “A child has a hundred languages but gets deprieved of 99!” Famous Italian Educator and Poet Loris Malaguzzi

    Sonja & Esin: “Children’s art is one of the unique primeval languages symbolizing thoughts and feelings and hereby reflecting the deeply original and universal inner nature of the children aound us. These reflections, we believe, can be found within the direct and friendly manner in which children approach and handle materials. And also as embedded in the child’s concrete visualizations of linear language into 3-dimensional forms is yet another one of these hundred languages. In these there is something that has to do with origin, birth and budding life; a joy of living and vitality; the same kind of power that makes plants and animals grow and develop. Man’s search and research through cycles of civilizations will, hopefully, aid us through whatever future challenges we meet in our World.”

    These are some of the many messages in Free Art Learning With Kids, which is a fresh and inspiring book on art pedagogy for preschool aged children, written by two Swedish - Turkish artists and art educators. Sonja has spent 57 years of her life together with children and art and Esin has similar experiences since about 20 years. Now they want to share their stand points and colorful experiences with the World.

    “Our mission with this book: When children through the magic power of art get chances to freely discover and explore their creative inner resources by means of self-expression, we believe in a broad sense, that art making has the potential of fostering growth of what is individual in each child (emotion, thought, and understanding). At the same time, the natural processes of psychic and physical maturing of the child will come to be integrated with the surrounding world so that there will be harmony and balance in their interrelation.

    Let’s consider the scientifically proven fact that as much as 90% of children’s personalities get completed at the age of 6! Very much can and, according to Sonja’s and Esin’s understanding, should be done in order to support processes of developing self confidence and individual growth in children while their brains are most receptive.

    This introduction book wil be followed by a series of instruction books that will, in the end, form a library containing guidelines on how to easily use numerous materials and how to apply various different techniques to achieve satisfactory levels of self expression.

    Though it would be wonderful if one could have chance to get support from professionals, during early years of childhood, Sonja and Esin believe that it is not necessary for us to be professional art teachers. Adults’ love and and care for children they are close to is essential! Readers will find this Free Art Learning “library basics” full of fun and designed in an easily comprehensible interactive kind of communication.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherEsin Tanrisever
    Release dateJul 23, 2016
    ISBN9781370325160
    Free Art Learning With Kids, Introduction Book-I
    Author

    Sonja Tanrisever

    SONJA TANRISEVERSonja Böhlander Tanrisever is a Swedish Turkish freelance artist living in Istanbul since 46 years. At the same time, she teaches children and adults in art, besides writing poems and articles mainly focused on educational matters.As a young person in Sweden, she received education in art and pedagogy (sculpture, drawing, painting and textile design). Simultaneously she had started gathering children and youngsters in her studio for their obtaining experiences in art making. As still working together with children, by now 57 years have passed since then. She found opportunity to set up an art school for adults within Swedish workers educational association (ABF) as well as participating in her first exhibitions.During her later life with family in Turkey, above mentioned basic fields of activities have been further developed, like own art (6 one-man shows and 22 group exhibitons), teaching adults in art. She has also been lucky of setting up her therapeutic rehabilitation section for adults at a university hospital psychiatry clinic in Istanbul. Her main occupations in teaching though, have been establishing many kinds of creative environments for young persons from various sociocultural standards of living. These has become realized as a kind of “building bridges” within different leading cultural and educational institutions sometimes between nations. Often such involvements have had character of connecting institutions with one another. In this context, particularly teachers’ training has been a vital interest.Through contribution of a certain established blend of Swedish Turkish art pedagogical model, by time it’s influences have come at least to a certain degree get gradually ramified within the country. For the time being besides working in her own studio on pictorial / sculptural weavings, she is actively working as art consultant in a private kindergarten (AKD American Cultural Association), pa private primary school (Harvard International American College, Istanbul) and TYSA (Life Therapy Art Association in Istanbul). Among her publications can be found;•Tanrisever Sonja “Cultural Bridges Between Countries” ET-RF, 2004.•Tanrisever Sonja “SKYGD” (Experiments In Supporting Social & Cultural Life) “Programs For Art Studios, Importance Of Creating For Child And Youngster and Their Relations With Material”, 2009.•Tanrisever Sonja “Integration and Playfulness For Children In Art Pedagogical Education” InSEA On Bridge 7th European Regional Congress, Istanbul, Capadocia, Turkey 01-06 July 2004, Pages 252-263.•Tanrisever Sonja “Innovations In Children’s Art Education” Yildiz Teknik University “Muzecilik ve Egitim” Kadriye T. Akmehmet 2003, Pages 63-75.In these days, together with her daughter Esin Tanrisever she is about to publish an E-Book “Introduction To Free Art Learning With Kids”She is a regular artical writer in an online magazine “Children On Earth” of American Cultural Association (http://dunyadacocuk.com/).Artist is a board member of UPSD (International Society of Plastic Arts), member of InSEA (International Society For Education Through Art), SKYGD (Association for Development of Social and Cultural Life) and AREM (European Rehabilitation Center. Pieces of her art works do take place at collections in different parts of the World.Upon Sonja’s Art works: “Artists’ works may be associated with travelling... Dreamlike states of journeys between different dimensions of time and space. Outlines vanish and borders between dream and reality, past-time/ present time gets overlapped into each other. Lines, colors, shapes and textures come to symbolize Artist’s thoughts and emotions.In usual dreams one more or less drifts along in uncontrollable sequences of events. Also artists in ‘dream’ state, ‘witnesses’ in a kind of awake condition stuff that dreams are made of: fragmentary images of experienced perceptions from past or present life. These now gather together, get confronted, reborn and embodied into pieces of art.”

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      Free Art Learning With Kids, Introduction Book-I - Sonja Tanrisever

      PREFACE and ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

      Children's art, being one of the unique primeval languages symbolizing thought and feelings also reflects the deeply original and universal inner nature of children around us. These reflections, we believe, can be found in the direct and friendly manner in which children approach and handle materials.

      During Creative Process

      Nisan (Girl), Onur O. (Boy) Ages 5, Tanrisever Art Studio, Istanbul, 2006

      Our adventure together with children and art started many years ago in Sweden when a young Sonja came to discover the power of ties between child, adult, and creative expressiveness. Since then, the journey of further fruitful explorations has been long and exciting. Numerous young ones have experienced the wonder and joy in the freedom of self-expression. Irrespective of personal backgrounds, at certain moments, there has always been the same bright and eager look in children's eyes!

      Together with my daughter Esin, we came to share this phenomenon many times later while working together in the field. It has been fascinating as well to find the same look of wonder in children's expressions reflected in the eyes of adults joining our artistic workshops. Because, as parts of our projects, the adults had put into practice with children what they just had learned themselves.

      The purpose of our coming book series can be viewed as an attempt to share, maybe particularly with parents, the subject of the spiritual nature of early childhood. Hopefully, such perfectly happy looks and smiles can become multiplied.

      Sonja and Esin, Zonguldak Biennial

      We have been fortunate in receiving generous support from different sources. To mention a few: Swedish General Consulate of Istanbul, Swedish Institute Stockholm and Istanbul, Birgitta Kurultay, Annika Svahnström, Sevil Ozmen, Suzi Ersahin, Gotlands Konstskola, Barbro Hedström, Folkuniversitetet Sweden, Borusan Culture and Art Initiative of the Borusan Kocabiyik Foundation, Teri Sisa, Binnaz Tukin, SKYGD (Association For Development Of Social And Cultural Life), UPSD (International Association Of Plastic Arts), History Foundation MAS Matbaa, Bulent Erkmen, Faruk Malhan, Yapı Kredi Culture and Arts Istanbul, Enka Schools Istanbul, Dr Clinton & Emily Vickers, European Cultural Association Istanbul, American College Harvard Istanbul, American Culture Association AKD Istanbul, psychologist Isik Selin Yazar TYSA (Therapy Life, Art Association) Istanbul, Prof. Dr. Ozcan Koknel, Prof. Olcay Tekin Kirisoglu, Prof. Engin Beksac, Clinical psychologist Stella Ovadia, Leyla Sakpinar, Serpil Unsal, Ismail Demircioglu, Bulent Ortacgil, Fatih Akgun, Ali Dursun Keskin, Ergun Korel, Zeynep Kiygi, Irem Cagla Yildirim, Firat Bingol, Ugur Acil, Ercan Vural, Bulent Selcuk, Murat Yurttas, our editors Brian Cross and Kelli Ballard, Berker Ertuna; Rengin, Memet (or Memo) and Irmak Tanrisever.

      INTRODUCTION

      Hello, my name is Sonja. I am a Swedish and Turkish artist and also, an art educator having been working with children for 57 years. Now I want to share these experiences with you. This book was written together with my daughter Esin, to whom I owe the realization of this book series. Esin has an artistic background working with art and writing, and has also contributed teaching art with kids for almost 20 years. Together, we continue developing innovative art pedagogical methods.

      Our mission: with this book when children, through the magic power of art, get a chance to freely discover and explore their creative inner resources by means of self-expression, we believe in a broad sense, that making art has the potential of fostering growth of what is individual in each child (emotion, thought, and understanding). At the same time, the natural processes of psychic and physical maturing of the child will come to be integrated with the surrounding world so that there will be harmony and balance in their interrelation.

      Our approach towards art learning with children is basically that of adult artists sharing experiences with little fellow artists.

      Untitled, Volkan (Boy), Age 7, Art Child Project, France

      *The brain reaches 90% of its adult size by the time a person is six years of age.[58] Casey B. J., Getz S., Galvan A. (2008). The adolescent brain.Developmental Review 28 (1): 62 - 77. doi:10.1016/j.dr.2007.08.003.PMC 2500212. PMID 18688292. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolescence

      According to Wikipedia, during the initial six years of a child's life, when development of as much as 90 percent of their personalities has been completed (!), art making - being one of the most influential medias of self-expression - can act as a truly integrating and healing source. Our personal view upon art learning with preschool kids represents a kind that is revealed in nature. We have chosen to refer to the subject as Free Art Learning and do fully agree with noted researcher Victor Lowenfeld:

      If we can stimulate the child's unaware production to such an extent that it reaches in his unaware style a creative maturity which will be able to stand the critical awareness which once will set in, we have kept the child from making a sudden change and have protected him from disappointment or shock with regard to his changing imaginative activity.

      This introduction will be followed by a series of handbooks that will in the end form a library with guidelines upon how we as adults can aid and motivate children during such a vital period, and will describe how to easily use numerous materials and how to apply various different techniques to achieve satisfactory levels of self-expression. Within this book, you will find many points of view verifying why art teaching is essential for kids. Our aim is not to coax them to become practicing artists, but to enrich their lives through art and help them gain the inner strength they'll need to discover and explore the world.

      During the early years of a child, we believe there is no need of being a professional teacher. For the time being your love and care for the child you are close to is essential! Later on, when school begins at the age of 7 like, the situation will change. We will mention about that later on in this book.

      PART – I Short Views Upon

      Childhood Through History Until Today

      Man, Sun, Cloud, Grass, Turtle, Apple Tree Ali (Boy) Age 4, American Culture Association AKD, Istanbul http://www.amerikankoleji.net

      Let's consider that the vital importance of childhood in the development of human beings has only recently in history begun to be comprehended. Ancient Greek Philosopher Platon in his days advocated that art must be the basis of education, but since then no progress has evolved in the world for more than two thousand years.

      Platon, Illustration by Sonja Böhlander Tanrisever

      http://www.sonjatanrisever.com

      Around the 1600s, French cardinal P. De Bérulle proclaimed childhood as being the most awkward and miserable stage in mankind(!). Later on, Rousseau (French philosopher, writer and composer in the 18th century) put forward romantic theories about the innocence of childhood.

      English Romantic poet William Wordsworth's bright idiom Child is father of the man caught attention of the public. There was also Pestalozzi, (Swiss Educational Reformer) who made contributions in the field but still nothing really happened until the end of the 1800s when the significance and importance of childhood in man's development gradually became the subject of intensive researches in many various fields of expertise.

      In 1880 in the United States, a movement for Progressive Education was founded. German educational reformer Froebel founded a contemporary kind of kindergarten system. Since then, children and their developments have become subjects of scrutinized investigations. Thanks to lots of deeply engaged men and women researchers, who within the last century have spent

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