Veraksa A.N. Art in child’s psychological development

Veraksa A.N. Art in child’s psychological development // Preschool Education Today. 2009, Issue 5 - p. 52-55.

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2009, 5

Aleksander N. Veraksa
Academician of the Russian Academy of Education, Dr. Sci. (Psychology), Professor, Head of the Department of Educational Psychology and Pedagogy, Faculty of Psychology, Lomonosov Moscow State University; Head of the Laboratory of Child Psychology and Digital Socialization; Deputy Director of the Federal Scientific Center for Psychological and Interdisciplinary Research, Moscow, Russian Federation

Abstract

It is commonly accepted that art is labor of imagination rather than objective reality and reflects no more than one’s personal experience. This belief sets apart art and science, for the first is subjective, and at the basis of the latter lies a process of understanding the world through the work of cognition by objective and precise scientific methods. However, similarities in the history of art and science help to better understand the role of art in formation of preschooler’s mind.