This article describes preservice art education students who curated an exhibition for a university gallery, using description and analysis as aesthetic inquiry processes. The students curated an exhibition that placed 1977 Central and Latin American and contemporary children's artworks in dialogue with each other. They constructed themes that facilitated visual comparisons between contexts and narratives and generated questions to inspire imaginative thinking for viewers. The process was inspired by the Prospect School's descriptive review process, which emphasizes suspending judgment and resisting the urge to critique children's artworks, allowing for expanded inquiries (Carini, 2001). Curating is described as a form of aesthetic inquiry where students engage their imagination and develop critical thinking skills through collecting, analyzing, categorizing, constructing, and creating opportunities for viewers to experience children's artworks. The exhibition displays historical and contemporary children's artworks, likening to a dialogue, with the preservice art education students taking on the role of facilitators of the discussion. The questions they generated served as imaginative openings to perceive children as artists and producers of their own cultural images.

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儿童艺术作品集作为富有想象力的开场白


本文介绍了为大学画廊策划展览的职前艺术教育学生，他们使用描述和分析作为审美探究过程。学生们策划了一个展览，将 1977 年的中美洲和拉丁美洲以及当代儿童艺术作品相互对话。他们构建的主题有助于在上下文和叙述之间进行视觉比较，并生成问题以激发观众的想象力思考。这个过程的灵感来自 Prospect School 的描述性审查过程，该过程强调暂停评判和抵制批评儿童艺术作品的冲动，允许扩大调查范围（Carini，2001 年）。策展被描述为一种审美探究形式，学生通过收集、分析、分类、构建和创造机会让观众体验儿童艺术作品，激发他们的想象力并培养批判性思维能力。展览展示了历史和当代儿童艺术作品，就像一场对话，职前艺术教育学生扮演着讨论的促进者的角色。他们提出的问题可以作为富有想象力的开端，将儿童视为艺术家和他们自己文化形象的生产者。