This article reviews the literature on children's engagement with art and identifies a gap in the field that is concerned with the relationship between making and judging art. A project that sought to examine this is reported, focusing upon three case studies of 11 year olds attending a primary school in Cyprus. The data were collected through a variety of methods, including interviews, art class observations, document examination and questionnaires. It was found that the way these children created and responded to other children's artworks was determined by the significance and the role they attributed to art. We conclude that individual differences play a significant part in determining children's artistic and aesthetic development. introduction This article focuses on factors influencing children's responses to their own art making and that of their peers, looking at how their judgements are formed and the relationship between generating and responding. Research into children's drawing has developed mainly during the twentieth century, as a result of the growth of developmental psychology and modern ideas about the nature and the qualities of 'art', especially in the western world. Before that, child art was treated as an unsuccessful or imperfect version of adult art and

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In Southeast Europe, geopolitical interests and cultural diversity are still shaping the landscape's borders and its inhabitants' identities. Europe's Balkan Peninsula and the eastern Mediterranean countries – Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Greece, Kosovo, Montenegro, and Serbia – lie at the crossroads of continents and civilizations and comprise a melting pot of political interests, religious beliefs, and cultural traditions. In this pot, art production is a sign of this diversity and throughout history it has also become a meeting point of coexistence for the area's inhabitants. This chapter is an account of art traditions and practices in the region, and it focuses on the ways in which art has been incorporated in each country's educational system today.