Communities of Practice: Art, Play, and Aesthetics in Early Childhood

Acknowledgements.- Introduction, Christine Marmé Thompson & Christopher Mark Schulte.- The emergence of the early childhood studio as an event-full place, Sylvia Kind.- "A cool place where we can make stuff": Co-creating relational spaces of muchness, Jaye Johnson Thiel.- "Now we all look like Rapunzels": Drawing in a kindergarten writing journal, Leslie Rech.- Artistic encounters: Ethical collaborations between children and adults, Shana Cinquemani.- Fighting the Mad King: Play, art, and adventure in an early childhood art studio, Marta Cabral .- Sensitive and supportive interactions: Tuning into children's requests for help during artmaking, Rosemary Richards.- Children's play and art practices with agentic objects, Marleena Mustola.- Digital aesthetic and multidimensional play in early childhood, Linda Knight.- Beyond screen time: Aesthetics of digital playscapes for young children, Marissa McClure Sweeny.- Circumspection in early childhood classrooms: Ontological forays into questioning, being, and making, Heather Kaplan.- A playful event awaiting just a-stone's throw away, Charles Garoian.- Mothering as a feminist aesthetics of existence, Laura-Trafi-Prats.- The will-to-Research children's drawing, Christopher M. Schulte.- Dancing rainbows, naughty rainbows: Reflections on teaching learning and research in the arts with young children, Patricia Tarr