arts 550
professor david melby-gibbons
summer I
2014
Participants will learn and practice arts-based teaching strategies for nurturing children’s spiritual development as an essential part of holistic development. Focus is on inner character development, including virtues, values, and internal motivation, and nurturing a sense of belonging, purpose, and hope in children. Participants will learn the importance of holistic spiritual awareness in children in relationship to others. Participants develop and engage in various artistic projects and explore their own spirituality while learning techniques for teaching diverse children and youth.
Skills: Identify and assess spiritual development in children, plan and lead arts-based structured and unstructured play, identify values and virtues, teach using internal motivation developing strategies, create rituals that communicate values for developing belonging, plan and lead art-making experiences that nurture hope, speak blessings that develop purpose.
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Skills: Identify and assess spiritual development in children, plan and lead arts-based structured and unstructured play, identify values and virtues, teach using internal motivation developing strategies, create rituals that communicate values for developing belonging, plan and lead art-making experiences that nurture hope, speak blessings that develop purpose.
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