The Formation of Art Education for Children and the Transformation of the Conception of Nature in England

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24520110
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Aesthetics/Art history
• Research Institution: Osaka University
• Principal Investigator: KANAME Mariko 大阪大学, コミュニケーションデザイン・センター, 招へい准教授 (40420426)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): MAEDA Shigeru 京都精華大学, 人文学部, 准教授 (80368042) ; OKUBO Kyoko 京都橘大学, 人間発達学部, 教授 (70293991)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: 英国 / 児童美術教育 / 自然観 / プリミティヴィズム / モダンアート / 創造性 / モダニズム / 国際研究者交流

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Ever since Jean-Jacques Rousseau, children’s education has emphasized the importance of developing the potentials of children (e.g. fostering “natural” sensibilities or creativity) so they may contribute to a society and its culture. Reconsidering art education for children in modern England within a larger theoretical context, this research project clarified the extent to which ideas regarding children’s sensibility/creativity engaged with other ideas and practices, such as conceptions of nature, savageness, primitive art, and modern art.

Free Research Field

人文学: 美学・美術史