Using different art forms to investigate the impact on children’s involvement in literacy activities

Abstract

Using different art forms to investigate the impact on children's involvement in literacy activities Much of the research into factors that affect children's school performance has focused on parental involvement rather than the nature of children's activities undertaken in school. More research is therefore needed to examine the kinds of activities that affect performance and, in particular, whether the degree of involvement children experience in those activities can affect school performance. Children in free play often choose to be involved in arts activities so the arts could be considered as a promising approach. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effects of 'Play and Learn through the Arts' program on children's involvement during literacy activities in five-six-year-old children. It was examined if the arts in general or a specific art form could contribute more to children's involvement in literacy activities. Children from four different settings participated in this study. To measure the outcome of the intervention the LIS-YC was used and items such as children's concentration, persistence and precision were measured. The findings were analyzed using a mixed method approach and showed significant benefits in all the items in children's levels of involvement in the arts group over the control group and no difference in effects among the different art forms.

Learning through Play in Early Childhood: A Systematic Review

“…For example, digital tools and toys (Sakr & Scollan, 2019;Leung et al, 2020;Peppler et al, 2019;Li et al, 2021;Abdi & Cavus, 2019, Duncan et al, 2020Kewalramani et al, 2021;Kewalramani et al, 2020;Vogt & Hollenstein, 2021;Alemi & Haeri, 2020;Bers, 2021) even educational apps and games (Vanbecelaere et al, 2020;Adbo & Carulla, 2020;Williams & Thevenow, 2021;Ramani et al, 2020;Subaramaniam & Mon, 2020;Disney et al, 2019;Outhwaite et al, 2019). What is interesting in this data is that learning through play educational programme in many dimensions have been developed (Gibb et al, 2021;Parrott & Cohen, 2021;Theodotou, 2019). We found that very few study examined on dimension of learning through play.…”

“…An early study by Theodotou (2019) showed the positive contribution of PLA to children's literacy development. With the same objective, Colliver et al (2021) conducted numerical experiments on pre-schoolers' exposure to parents and educators.…”

“…Furthermore,Simoncini et al (2020);Isabelle et al (2021) highlighted the need for block play. In a different study,Gibb et al (2021),Parrott and Cohen (2021) andTheodotou (2019) examined the Play club, Building Brains, and Futures (BBF) programme, and Play and Learn through the Arts' (PLA) programme. Furthermore,Duncan et al (2020) developed an early language acquisition support named eLIPS tools.…”

An empirical study comparing different art forms to develop social and personal skills in early years education

“…Following that publication, PLA has also been used in small-scale studies to support children's literacy, social and personal skills (Theodotou, 2019(Theodotou, , 2017b. Recently, it was also used in a bigger research project to measure children's involvement comparing different art forms over a control group (Theodotou, 2018).…”

Γραμματισμός Στην Ξένη Γλώσσα Μέσω Της Αξιοποίησης Των Εικαστικών Τεχνών

“…Μέσω της παρούσας ενότητας ασφαλώς και δεν εξαντλούνται τα παραδείγματα προγραμμάτων στα οποία αναδεικνύεται η αξία της τέχνης στην εκπαίδευση. Επιγραμματικά θα αναφερθεί η συνεργασία της Maxine Greene με το Lincoln Center Institute, με προσανατολισμό ένα «οπτικό» πρόγραμμα σπουδών μέσω της συνεργασίας με καλλιτέχνες (Davis, 2008), οι εκπαιδευτικές μεταρρυθμίσεις του «Καλλιτεχνικού προγράμματος σπουδών» σε Αγγλία, Ουαλία, όπως και σε Σιγκαπούρη και Νέα Ζηλανδία (Albers & Murphy, 2000), η «Καμπάνια για τη ζωγραφική» (The campaign for drawing) στη Μ. Βρετανία το 2000 (Γραφάκου & Λαμπίτση, 2011), ενώ ένα πρόγραμμα το οποίο βρίσκεται σε εξέλιξη τα τελευταία χρόνια είναι το "Play and Learn through the Arts (PLA)" (Παιχνίδι και μάθηση μέσω των τεχνών), για παιδιά πέντε και έξι ετών, το οποίο αποτελεί μια διαθεματική προσέγγιση υποστήριξης του γραμματισμού ως κοινωνικής πρακτικής σε ένα φιλελεύθερο, παιδοκεντρικό περιβάλλον (Theodotou, 2017(Theodotou, , 2018(Theodotou, , 2019.…”