"Tool Theory" In The Context Of Preschool Art Education

Preschool-age children painting education is emerged from the evolution of humanbeing, and integrated with the culture of the society and the development of the economic.Preschool-age children art education is paid closed attention to by the parents and the society,as a tool to enlighten mental, cultivate affection, lead the knowledge of esthetical, andencourage the children grow up happily. Meanwhile, painting education is also a veryimportant part of the whole art education system. It is the initial phase of the art education,and that requires the teacher foster and leads in terms of characteristics of the children in bothpsychological way and physiological way, with the aim of perfecting the innermost being offeeling of the children, thereby precipitate the healthy growing up of the children. Organonmainly emphasizes the value of painting education, which means to take painting educationas an education tool, and believe that painting education could promote the development ofchildren themselves. Organon pays more attention to the processes of creation than the results.It proposed to comply with the development of children themselves in the work method, andto take the analysis of the characteristics of children as the criteria. This point of view isbeneficial to the creativeness of the children. As the information developing so fast, today,people concern more of the creativeness in education than the traditional way. Therefore, howto know better the inner world of the children to make better preschool-age art education isbecoming more and more popular and concerned globally.The author of this article is firstly stated the organon and its value, and proposed his ownview of children art education. First, children feel this world mainly by visual and auditorysense; they themselves don’t even know how to express their own inner world. However, wecan analyze and try to get their way of thinking by their art work, and understand their statusof different age phases by comparing the art works they have at different periods. Then in thelight of organon, combine with educating activities to evaluate and guide children’s ways ofacting. At last, the author integrated some practiced examples, stated the pros and cons oforganon system, thereby offers some suggestions which could be referred by parents andteachers.