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The Colors of Life: Exploring Life Experience Through Color and Emotion

AUTHOR Brennan, Marcia
PUBLISHER Routledge (10/04/2024)
PRODUCT TYPE Paperback (Paperback)

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The Colors of Life engages the strategies of Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) to explore life experience through emotion and color. For high-potential readers at the middle school level, the book's humanistic and emotional themes provide valuable complements to the education of STEM-oriented learners.

The book presents color as a vehicle of knowledge and empowerment to foster mindfulness, wisdom, and creative expression in young people. Featuring more than 50 original illustrations, the book's core concepts are reinforced through complementary expressions of language and imagery.

With an accompanying Guide for Teachers and Parents, the book can be accessed individually by independent readers, or it can be used as a teacher-led initiative with creative exercises to be implemented in the classroom.

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ISBN-13: 9781032609249
ISBN-10: 1032609249
Binding: Paperback or Softback (Trade Paperback (Us))
Content Language: English
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Page Count: 114
Carton Quantity: 32
Product Dimensions: 8.27 x 0.26 x 11.69 inches
Weight: 0.70 pound(s)
Feature Codes: Bibliography, Illustrated
Country of Origin: US
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Young Adult Nonfiction | Social Topics - Emotions & Feelings
Grade Level: 3rd Grade - 7th Grade
Dewey Decimal: 370.153
Library of Congress Control Number: 2024016537
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The Colors of Life engages the strategies of Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) to explore life experience through emotion and color. For high-potential readers at the middle school level, the book's humanistic and emotional themes provide valuable complements to the education of STEM-oriented learners.

The book presents color as a vehicle of knowledge and empowerment to foster mindfulness, wisdom, and creative expression in young people. Featuring more than 50 original illustrations, the book's core concepts are reinforced through complementary expressions of language and imagery.

With an accompanying Guide for Teachers and Parents, the book can be accessed individually by independent readers, or it can be used as a teacher-led initiative with creative exercises to be implemented in the classroom.

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Author: Brennan, Marcia
Marcia Brennan is Associate Professor of Art History at Rice University. She has previously taught art history at Brown University and the College of the Holy Cross. She is the author of "Painting Gender, Constructing Theory: The Alfred Stieglitz Circle and American Formalist Aesthetics" (2002) and "Modernism's Masculine Subjects: Matisse, the New York School, and Post-Painterly Abstraction" (2006), both published by the MIT Press.
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