Böcker av Tony Gee

This book is the result of forty years working with many thousands of children in schools all over the world. It contains twenty-two illustrated instructions on how to make puppets that range from giraffes to mice, dolphins to dogs and humans to frogs. All from simple, accessible materials and for all ages. There are seven world creation myths reimagined by children and four original myths written purely by children. Plus a gallery of seventy-six, make-them-yourself puppets. The whole book is a lovingly and beautifully hand illustrated guide to making your own worlds come to life. It is suitable for parents , educationalists, artists and , of course, the children who are the ones who made it possible over and over again with delight and joy. The book is designed to bring that delight and joy to you.

This book explores tools and techniques for creating the arts with groups. It provides insights into why workshops are such an effective and relevant form of creative practice. Throughout, two experienced practitioners share successful principles and qualities. They also include examples of workshops that explore ways of facilitating creative exploration.The authors believe that underpinning any good workshop practice is an understanding of what constitutes a workshop. This is a process in which the relationship between artist/researcher and participant/audience, maker, and witness is fluid. It extends each individual¿s abilities and connects doing to learning to inquiring in a single process. The book itself is a dialogue on, and an investigation into, this practice. It fully explores the specificities of workshop practice in relation to how it engages others in arts-based research.Readers learn how workshops involve inquiry into six areas:inquiry into subjects, artistic processes, skills, self, the world, and relationships with others. In the end, this informed investigation helps practitioners to better reflect on their own approaches to arts-based inquiry and research. This, in turn, leads to a better understanding of how readers can use workshops for the maximum benefit of all participants, both individuals and groups.