2nd Edition
Supporting Children’s Creativity through Music, Dance, Drama and Art Creative Conversations in the Early Years
Acknowlegements
List of Contributors
Introduction
Fleur Griffiths
Overture
1. Welcome, Wonder and Magic: words on the fence of a Romanian Kindergarten
Annabella Cant
Making Time and Space
Dancing on the Decking: an observation
Rose Davies
2. Listening More and Talking Less: nurturing children’s creativity
Kay Rooks
3. Enriched Environments: a dialogue with People, Places and Materials
Fleur Griffiths in Conversation with Tracy Kirkbride
Story-making
4. Creative Conversations: the Talking Table
Fleur Griffiths
An A-Z of children who visit the Talking Table
Fleur Griffiths
5. From Scribble to Story: making meaning from marks in drawing and painting
Fleur Griffiths in conversation with Marysia Holubecki
6. Story-telling and Story-acting: putting the action into interaction
Evi Typadi and Karen Hayon
Music- making
Music round a Cloth
Stephanie Brandon
7. Musical Movers: Creative ideas for using Movement with young children
Angela Foley
8. The Sounds of Leaping: exploring relationships between music and movement
Catherine Reding
The Jam Jar Project: a conversational account
Tracy Kirkbride
Coda
9. Conversations for Change
Fleur Griffiths in collaboration with Pat Triggs
Recommended Reading and Resources
Biography
Fleur Griffiths is a retired nursery teacher/educational psychologist/Senior Lecturer in Early Childhood Studies at Sunderland University, UK. In retirement she has worked on a contract basis as an educational consultant in Foundation Stage settings in local authorities.
