<p style="LINE-HEIGHT: 12pt">How can we understand young children's development in greater depth? How do they view the world around them, and what do they think the future might look like?</p><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: 12pt"></p><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: 12pt">Creativity in early childhood is an area of fascination for all those working with young children, and <b>Understanding Creativity in Early Childhood</b> investigates why children create, and what their creations mean. Chapters describe the processes and depict the outcomes of meaning-making, and of making room for children's voices through the open-ended activity of drawing. </p><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: 12pt"></p><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: 12pt">Issues examined include:</p><ul><li><div style="LINE-HEIGHT: 12pt">the increasingly popular use of multi-modal texts</div></li><li><div style="LINE-HEIGHT: 12pt">links between creativity and literacy</div></li><li><div style="LINE-HEIGHT: 12pt">the importance of art in early childhood</div></li><li><div style="LINE-HEIGHT: 12pt">concrete examples of children's meaning-making</div></li></ul>