Study On The Impact Of Comprehensive Art Activities On Young Children’s Creative Thinking Development

The Guideline for 3-6 Years Old Children’s Learning and Development(2012,10, by The Ministry of Education, China)points out that, kindergartens should provide as many opportunities as possible for children’s art learning, aiming to enrich their imaginations and to develop their creative thinking. This study attempts, firstly, to explore theoretically the impact of comprehensive art activities on the development of children, esp. on their creative thinking. Then the study moves to practical modes investigation of comprehensive art activities. Lastly, this study endeavors to do some research to evaluate the influence of the mode on children’s creative thinking development.This study values both theoretically and practically. It enriches the thought on the domestic children art education, proposes a kind of art activity mode which might be useful to children’s creative thinking. My mode has been positively testified by the practices based on the study, and it could lay down some foundations for children education, especially the kindergarten art activities, preschool art teachers’ training and some relevant policy-making.With the previous studies and some practices as my premise, this research considers a kind of practical mode for the comprehensive art activities, which is consisted of the following teaching steps: learn the introductive materials, show the objects of learning, integrate the knowledge, and make artworks. The theoretical bases of this mode are Housen’s esthetical development theory and Dow’s art language theory. And the strategy of my study is motivation arousing and learning circumstances while the experiment is evaluated by matching the means of teaching media, the strategy and the real procedure in the teaching to test the actual results. The experimental method is employed in this research, that is, to select Class M in Kindergarten J as experimental subject, and Class N as the control one. The experiment lasts eleven months. And the results show:Firstly, comprehensive art activities are advantageous to children’s creative thinking development. Various art language inputting, multiple art media, creating of favorable studying condition, and opportunities of free performances are helpful to the development of children’s thinking both cognitively and emotionally.Secondly, the teaching mode could be extended to a larger range. The mode of comprehensive art activities features in its integration of art language and visual thinking strategy, in its integration of scientific res earch and teachers’ involving research, and also the new or on-job teachers’ training.This study has also discussed the application scope of comprehensive art activities in children education field, such as the training of kindergarten teachers, the practice of children education and the assessment of kindergarten education.