Children and Pictures

Drawing and Understanding
1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-1-4051-0543-9
Verlag: Wiley

Buch, Englisch, 400 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 703 g

In Children and Pictures, Richard P. Jolley critiques both the historical and contemporary studies conducted in the field of children’s making and understanding of pictures.

Some highlights of Children and Pictures are:

- What develops, and why, in children’s representational and expressive drawing, both in typical, atypical, and cross-cultural populations.
- The developing relationship between production and comprehension of pictures.
- Children’s understanding of pictures as symbolic representations.
- Practical and applied uses of drawings, particularly in clinical and legal settings.
- Diverse educational practices of teaching drawing across the world.

Presenting up-to-date research and pointing towards future topics of study, Children and Pictures brings the study of children’s drawings into mainstream child development studies. This is an edifying resource for students, researchers, practitioners, parents, artists, and educators in the field.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jolley, Richard P

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments vi

Credits viii

Introduction 1

1 The Development of Representational Drawing 6

2 The Development of Expressive Drawing 36

3 Drawings from Children in Special Populations 67

4 Production and Comprehension of Representational Drawing 95

5 Children’s Understanding of the Dual Nature of Pictures 127

6 Drawings as Measures of Internal Representations 153

7 Drawings as Assessment Tools: Intelligence, Personality and Emotionality 180

8 Drawing as Memory Aids 216

9 Cultural Influences on Children’s Drawings 247

10 The Education of Drawing 272

11 Future Directions 314

Further Reading 330

References 331

Author Index 362

Subject Index 371

Plates appear between pages 184 and 185

Über Autor(innen)

Richard P. Jolley is Senior Lecturer in the Psychology department at Staffordshire University, UK. In the 13 years since completing his PhD in children's making and understanding of expressive pictures he has broadened his research interests in the topic of "children and pictures," taking a variety of perspectives including developmental, cognitive, clinical, educational, aesthetic, and cross-cultural.