The Importance of Aesthetic Development in Early Childhood Research, Theory and Practice

List of Contributors

1. The importance of aesthetic development in early childhood: Exploring multiple theories

2. Aesthetic development in early childhood education: A scoping literature review

3. Listening with children in nature: Witnessing aesthetic encounters and the relational building of meaning

4. Scaffolding creativity: Learning and social orientation in aesthetic learning environment in Finnish ECE toddlers' groups

5. Putting to work contrasting theories to further understand childhood 'aesthetic becoming' through the arts as enactments in home settings

6. How I learn: Teaching aesthetics through sustainability

7. Using the 4C model for aesthetic development in early years learning: A case study in a rural school

8. Aesthetic encounters in nature: Cognitive & non-cognitive dimensions of environmental aesthetics in early childhood

9. Same degree, different pedagogies? Framing the pedagogical elements and reflecting the aesthetic dimensions of Finnish UAS

10. Final reflection: Cultivating aesthetic flourishing in the early years

Index