The Creative Arts: A Process Approach for Teachers and Children » (4th Edition)

Linda Carol Edwards is a professor of Early Childhood in the School of Education at the College of Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina, where she teaches both graduate and undergraduate courses in the visual and performing arts.  Her degrees include a BA from Pembroke State University, and an MEd and EdD from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.  Before moving to the college level, she taught kindergarten for 12 years in the public schools of North Carolina.

Dr. Edwards is the author of Music: A Way of Life for the Young Child, Fifth Edition (Merrill Education/Prentice Hall).  She has been published inYoung Children, Science and Children, Journal of Early Education and Family Review, Dimensions in Early Childhood, and the Delta Kappa Pi Record.  She also serves on the advisory board of Annual Editions: Early Childhood Education.  In addition, Dr. Edwards's experience has enabled her to create graduate programs in early childhood education that have received NCATE/NAEYC approval.  

As an advocate for arts education for young children, she takes the opportunity to present at local, state, and national conferences about the importance of the visual and performing arts in the lives of young children.

This third edition of a text for preservice college students enrolled in a teacher education program offers new content on multicultural awareness and activities, and expanded coverage of the work of Lev Vygotsky and Rhoda Kellogg and of Howard Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences. Coverage includes exploring feelings and images, music and movement, celebrating the visual arts, encouraging play and creative drama, three-dimensional art, and planning for literature. Each chapter presents, in separate sections, material on developmentally appropriate practice, children with special needs, personal and professional growth of teachers, and viewing the arts through a multicultural context. The author is affiliated with the College of Charleston. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)