Street children's drawings: Windows into their life circumstances and                aspirations

DiCarlo, M. A.; Gibbons, Judith L.; Kaminsky, Donald; Wright, James; Stiles, Deborah A.

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“…I am not using the drawings to assess what the depiction of the human figure by children at various developmental stages=ages indicates about a child's representational ability, cognitive development, emotional maturity, social adjustment, or ''values' ' (Aptekar 1988;DiCarlo et al 2000;Goodenough and Harris 1963;Koppitz 1984). Nor is my work directly comparable to studies that assess children's knowledge of the body for its completeness and accuracy regarding internal anatomy and functioning (Reiss and Tunnicliffe 2001).…”

Section: Asking Kids To Draw and Talkmentioning

confidence: 99%

Body and Illness: Considering Visayan Filipino Children's Perspectives within Local and Global Relationships of Inequality

Mitchell

2006

Medical Anthropology

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Despite a plethora of studies counting, examining, assessing, and diagnosing Filipino children living in poverty, children's own perceptions and concerns about their health and security are rarely elicited. This article draws from fieldwork in an urban neighbourhood in the Visayan Philippines among children who, every day, face a complex and precarious landscape dominated by multigenerational poverty, social marginalization, recurring hunger, and the hazards of living and playing amidst mounting garbage and effluent. I discuss children's perspectives on body and illness in this challenging environment and examine their ideas within the larger context of adult-child, hierarchical relationships, and colonial and contemporary government discourses on children, health, and citizenship. I also examine children's sense of place, agency, and vulnerability, and I discuss the view held by many adults in this community: their children's ideas hold little value.

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Section: Asking Kids To Draw and Talkmentioning

confidence: 99%

Body and Illness: Considering Visayan Filipino Children's Perspectives within Local and Global Relationships of Inequality

Mitchell

2006

Medical Anthropology

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“…Of more interest to the present paper are the practical advantages of using drawings. These include: the popularity of the activity among children (Thomas & Jolley, 1998); its typical perception as fun and non-threatening, unlike most testing situations (Rubin, 1984); and the fact that it does not require literacy and verbal skills (DiCarlo, Gibbons, Kaminsky, Wright & Stiles, 2000). In research, drawings lend themselves to cross-cultural comparisons because they can avoid some of the difficulties of translation .…”

Section: Using Drawings In Psychologymentioning

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Using Children’s Drawings as Data in Child-Centred Research

Merriman

Guérin

2006

The Irish Journal of Psychology

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Child-centred research shows a respect for children and promotes their entitlement to be considered as persons of value and persons with rights. With the growing interest in this approach to psychological research, researchers are using new methods to help them access children's perspectives. While drawings have been in use throughout the history of developmental psychology, they have more often been used as projective tests than as tools to access the views of children. This paper examines the use of drawings as data in child-centred psychological research, focusing on the benefits of this method and issues of data analysis, with reference to some of the existing literature in this area. The example at the heart of this paper explores the career aspirations of 151 Street Children from Kolkata (Calcutta), India, by asking them to draw a picture of 'the sort of person you want to be when you grow up'. This method allowed the participation of children who are not literate, and was also seen as an unintimidating and even enjoyable activity for the children involved. Conclusions will be drawn around the potential and actual contribution of drawings to child-centred research. Children's drawings have been of interest to psychologists for over a century (Sully, 1896). Drawings have since been used as indicators of

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“…Kinetic Family Drawing (KFD) (Burns & Kaufman, 1970) The rationale for using drawings in this research was its perception as being fun and non-threatening; it also does not require literacy or verbal skills (Dicarlo, Gibbons, Kaminsky, Wright, & Stiles, 2000). Main, Kaplan & Cassidy (1985) were the first to suggest that children's drawings might be a rich way of capturing attachment representation, one of the reasons being that the non-verbal nature of drawing may free the child to express emotions that are otherwise difficult to assess.…”

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Building secure attachments for primary school children: a mixed methods study

Ubha¹,

Cahill

2014

Educational Psychology in Practice

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Despite the wide implications of attachment theory there remains a lack of research exploring interventions which encapsulate the principles of an attachment-based framework in the school context. The aim of this research was to address this gap by implementing an intervention for a group of five primaryaged pupils with identified insecure attachment styles, and a key adult figure in the school context. The 10 week intervention consisted of weekly sessions based in a mainstream primary school. The research adopted a mixed methodology, with a predominant qualitative focus. The perceptions of children in relation to attachment concepts were explored both before and following the intervention. The findings revealed positive changes in the children's behaviours and experiences, in that the children's Internal Working Models were positively shifted, and impacted on their social and emotional behaviours.

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Street children's drawings: Windows into their life circumstances and aspirations

Cited by 27 publications

References 22 publications

Body and Illness: Considering Visayan Filipino Children's Perspectives within Local and Global Relationships of Inequality

Body and Illness: Considering Visayan Filipino Children's Perspectives within Local and Global Relationships of Inequality

Using Children’s Drawings as Data in Child-Centred Research

Building secure attachments for primary school children: a mixed methods study

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