Review of Research: Children and Their Purple Crayons: Understanding Their Worlds through Their Drawings

Walker, Kathleen

doi:10.1080/00094056.2008.10522983

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“…Drawings by children and adolescents have been used as study material in several studies [e.g., 6,8,23] and their potential and challenges as research material have been discussed in earlier studies [6,21]. Students' drawings are important to get access to their ideas [31], or [32] in Fisher's (2005) words: 'Drawing is a wonderful way of making thinking visible' (p. 57). According to Reiss and Tunnicliffe (2001) [33], drawings are of special value for students that have difficulties in expressing themselves verbally.…”

Section: Drawings As Study Materialsmentioning

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Landscape as Experienced Place and Worth Conserving in the Drawings of Finnish and Swedish Students

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Children explore their environment through experiences and each experience is meaningful in developing their environmental consciousness and identity. On the basis of the drawn landscape experiences, the present qualitative study set out to find out what landscapes the participating students deemed worth conserving. The data consisted of the drawings of 11- to 16-year-old Finnish (n = 311) and Swedish (n = 246) students. Deductive and inductive content analyses were used to analyse the data. The results showed that all three landscape types; nature, built, and social were presented in the drawings. Nature and built landscapes were the most frequent types, with the proportion of nature landscapes increasing and that of built landscapes decreasing with age. There were gender and cultural preferences: boys drew built landscapes more often than girls; and Finnish students drew summer cottages, a cultural phenomenon typical of Finnish landscapes, which was not found in Swedish drawings. Similarities in Finnish and Swedish data were identified e.g., in forest and water and “cultural landscapes”. Some of the students displayed a more distant, observing role, whereas others adopted an active one in relation to all three landscape types. The results are discussed in connection to the landscape theories and earlier findings of the drawn environments.

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Section: Drawings As Study Materialsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Landscape as Experienced Place and Worth Conserving in the Drawings of Finnish and Swedish Students

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“…Researchers have tended to focus on the contexts in which drawings were made as well as age-related development, interpretation, intention and meaning (Papandreou, 2014;Rose, Jolley and Burkitt, 2006;Scott-Frisch, 2006;Walker, 2007;Watts, 2010). In the 1980s and 1990s research revealed strong relationships between writing and drawing as well as more recent research which has established similar conclusions (Chan, Juan and Foon, 2008).…”

Section: Early Writing and Its Relationship With Drawingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Türk Çocuklarının Çizim, Yazma ve Anlatım Becerilerinin Resimli Bir Öykü Kitabı Kullanarak Betimlenmesi

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Benli²

2019

Ankara Universitesi Egitim Bilimleri Fakultesi Dergisi

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This study investigates the drawing, early writing and narrative skills among Turkish children aged 36-61 months using a picture book. The participants were 60 children-28 girls and 32 boys-who attended two preschool institutions in Ankara, Turkey. Two checklists developed by the researchers were used to investigate the drawing and writing skills of children after picture books were read to them following the Dialogic Reading method. In addition, the qualitative methodology of content and descriptive analyses was utilized for transcription and analyses of voice records in order to create categories relating to the participant children's narrative skills. Turkish children did what was expected from them after reading a picture book. Study results suggest some differences occur with regard to line types and human figures between the drawing behavior of children aged 36-48 months and those aged 49-61 months. It was observed that the drawing aptitude of the older group; those aged 49-61 months, was more developed. This result is similar to the findings of other relevant literature. Furthermore, an investigation of the children's writing products indicated that age is a determining factor in skill development. Picture books revealed children's early literacy skills and the results indicated that drawing, writing and narrative skills should be supported through an interconnected learning process.

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“…Teckningar i kombination med deras muntliga förklaringar betonas av flera forskare (Brooks, 2009;Ehrlén, 2009;Köse, 2008;Walker, 2007) men utgör inte en självklar del för alla. Betydelsen av att låta barn beskriva eller förklara vad de har ritat illustreras av ett exempel från Brooks (2009) där barn fick i uppgift att rita av ett grodyngel.…”

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“…The use of drawings is a common method for capturing children's notions in science education research (Ainsworth, Prain, & Tytler, 2011;Dempster & Stears, 2014;Eiser & Patterson, 1983;Gellert, 1962;Hall, Bailey, & Tillman, 1997;Óskarsdóttir et al, 2011;Reiss & Tunnicliffe, 2001). Drawings in combination with their oral explanations are emphasized by several researchers (Brooks, 2009;Ehrlén, 2009;Köse, 2008;Walker, 2007). Additional motives for using drawings is the ide to give the children an opportunity to first think for themselves, which can result in more thoughtful answers in an interview situation.…”

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confidence: 99%

Barns teckningar som utgångspunkt i det naturvetenskapliga samtalet

Andersson

2019

Studies in Science and Technology Education

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Review of Research: Children and Their Purple Crayons: Understanding Their Worlds through Their Drawings

Cited by 20 publications

References 34 publications

Landscape as Experienced Place and Worth Conserving in the Drawings of Finnish and Swedish Students

Landscape as Experienced Place and Worth Conserving in the Drawings of Finnish and Swedish Students

Türk Çocuklarının Çizim, Yazma ve Anlatım Becerilerinin Resimli Bir Öykü Kitabı Kullanarak Betimlenmesi

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