Contact Nigel
Nigel Meager trained as an artist and has been working with primary school children and training teachers for over twenty years. Apart from Creativity and Culture – Art Projects for Primary Schools, Nigel is author of the publications shown below.
Click here for more about Nigel's work in Art Education.
"Teaching Art at Key Stage 1" (1993), published by the National Society for Education in Art and Design (NSEAD).
This book describes classroom strategies to help the non-specialist primary school teacher teach art to children from 4 to 7 years. The book features advice about teaching through the visual elements of colour, shape, pattern, form, tone, line, texture and space.
To find out more information and order this book visit NSEAD web site.
"Teaching Art at Key Stage 2" (1995), published by the National Society for Education in Art and Design (NSEAD).
Here there are ideas about teaching art to children from 7 to 11 years. There is lots of advice about specific skills such as painting, collage, printing and working in clay. The chapters are organised as projects and include portraits, landscape, drawing buildings, abstraction, architecture, figures and heads in clay and war.
To find out more information and order this book visit NSEAD web site.
Teaching your Children Art a handbook for Teachers and Parents – No 1, Line, Shape and Drawing (1996), published by the National Society for Education in Art and Design (NSEAD)
Teaching your Children Art a handbook for Teachers and Parents – No 2, Colour, Texture and Painting (1998), published by the National Society for Education in Art and Design (NSEAD)
Both these slim books offer advice to parents and teachers who want to organise art activities for children in the Early Years 3 – 5 years. This was collaboration with Crayola. The books are no longer available but will be published on-line in the near future.
Zig Zag Art - resource pack (1997) published by BBC Educational Publishing.
Linked to four programmes in the Zig Zag Art unit, the pack helps to build children"s understanding and use of the visual elements: colour, shape, pattern, form, tone, line, and texture.
Art Start - resource pack (1998) published by BBC Educational Publishing.
A practical pack to support investigating and making at Key Stage 1 (5-7 years). The pack encourages an organised approach to teaching children skills and focuses on painting, printing, collage and clay. The pack helped to support a BBC Education television series called Art Start.
Cardiff Bay Art Education Pack – A Resource Book for Teachers (1997), published by Cardiff Bay Arts Trust.
This is a pack for teachers who want to bring children to see the many artworks in Cardiff Bay. It is aimed at children from 9 – 13 years. The pack is still available from CBAT call +44 (0)29 2048 8772 or E-mail: info@cbat.co.uk.
Contact Nigel
Nigel Meager trained as an artist and has been working with primary school children and training teachers for over twenty years. Apart from Creativity and Culture – Art Projects for Primary Schools, Nigel is author of the publications shown below.
Click here for more about Nigel's work in Art Education.
"Teaching Art at Key Stage 1" (1993), published by the National Society for Education in Art and Design (NSEAD).
This book describes classroom strategies to help the non-specialist primary school teacher teach art to children from 4 to 7 years. The book features advice about teaching through the visual elements of colour, shape, pattern, form, tone, line, texture and space.
To find out more information and order this book visit NSEAD web site.
"Teaching Art at Key Stage 2" (1995), published by the National Society for Education in Art and Design (NSEAD).
Here there are ideas about teaching art to children from 7 to 11 years. There is lots of advice about specific skills such as painting, collage, printing and working in clay. The chapters are organised as projects and include portraits, landscape, drawing buildings, abstraction, architecture, figures and heads in clay and war.
To find out more information and order this book visit NSEAD web site.
Teaching your Children Art a handbook for Teachers and Parents – No 1, Line, Shape and Drawing (1996), published by the National Society for Education in Art and Design (NSEAD)
Teaching your Children Art a handbook for Teachers and Parents – No 2, Colour, Texture and Painting (1998), published by the National Society for Education in Art and Design (NSEAD)
Both these slim books offer advice to parents and teachers who want to organise art activities for children in the Early Years 3 – 5 years. This was collaboration with Crayola. The books are no longer available but will be published on-line in the near future.
Zig Zag Art - resource pack (1997) published by BBC Educational Publishing.
Linked to four programmes in the Zig Zag Art unit, the pack helps to build children"s understanding and use of the visual elements: colour, shape, pattern, form, tone, line, and texture.
Art Start - resource pack (1998) published by BBC Educational Publishing.
A practical pack to support investigating and making at Key Stage 1 (5-7 years). The pack encourages an organised approach to teaching children skills and focuses on painting, printing, collage and clay. The pack helped to support a BBC Education television series called Art Start.
Cardiff Bay Art Education Pack – A Resource Book for Teachers (1997), published by Cardiff Bay Arts Trust.
This is a pack for teachers who want to bring children to see the many artworks in Cardiff Bay. It is aimed at children from 9 – 13 years. The pack is still available from CBAT call +44 (0)29 2048 8772 or E-mail: info@cbat.co.uk.
Contact Nigel