Representing Space: Katie's Horse and the Recalcitrant Object

2008 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 275-286 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christina MacRae
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Development ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Real Difference ◽  
Children's Drawings ◽  
Alternative Account ◽  
Developmental Approach ◽  
The Real ◽  
Social Discourses ◽  
Children’S Drawings ◽  
The World

This article is a practitioner's attempt to resist habitual ways of interpreting and responding to young children's drawings. Early art education as a discipline is shot through with complexities, including wider shifting social discourses. This article specifically explores the continuing and powerful effect that Piaget's developmental approach has had on ways that teachers expect children to represent the world. The critique of Piaget examines how his stages of cognitive development intersect with an account of perspective that naturalises the claims it makes to represent the world. Critical analysis of responses to a child's drawing draws attention to the ways that this normative and perspectival approach frames readings of the drawing. In order to create new ways of thinking about the drawing, the article offers a material critique of the logic of representation. In this alternative account the object that has been drawn stubbornly refuses to stand in for the real. Difference rather than resemblance is introduced into the reading of children's drawings.

Kindergarten children’s perceptions of the social unrest in Hong Kong

2021 ◽  
pp. 1476718X2110627
Author(s):  
Caroline Cohrssen ◽  
Nirmala Rao ◽  
Puja Kapai ◽  
Priya Goel La Londe
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Children's Drawings ◽  
Social Unrest ◽  
Protest Movements ◽  
Children's Perceptions ◽  
The Social ◽  
Children’S Drawings ◽  
The World

Hong Kong experienced a period of significant social unrest, marked by protests, from June 2019 to February 2020. Media coverage was pervasive. In July 2020, children aged from 5 to 6 years attending kindergartens in areas both directly and less directly impacted by the protests were asked to draw and talk about what had taken place during the social unrest. Thematic analysis of children’s drawings demonstrates the extent of their awareness and understanding and suggests that children perceived both protestors and police as angry and demonstrating aggression. Many children were critical of police conduct and saw protestors as needing protection from the police. Children around the world have been exposed to protest movements in recent times. The implications for parents, teachers and schools are discussed.

Wydobyte z ciszy – dziecięce narracje o świecie. Polsko-ukraińskie studium porównawcze

2019 ◽  
Vol 63 (4(250)) ◽  
pp. 245-262
Author(s):  
Agnieszka Nowak-Łojewska ◽  
Wojciech Siegień
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Study ◽  
Deep Understanding ◽  
Meaning Of Life ◽  
Social Contexts ◽  
Theoretical Studies ◽  
Children's Drawings ◽  
Research Material ◽  
Children’S Drawings ◽  
The World ◽  
Children's Films

Brought out of silence is a category used by Smolińska-Theiss to present children’s narrations and dialogues about their everyday matters. They take the form of letters to God, to presidents, albums with children’s drawings, photos, children’s films, graffiti, posts and comments. Originally, they date back to Korczak’s studies. Our text is also an act of letting children speak and appreciating their comments and opinions. It is concerned with children’s understanding of the world. Defining the meaning of life by children is the key category here. We called it “a comparative study” due to the fact that we will present utterances by both Polish and Ukrainian children as the category “a meaning of life” may be interpreted differently in various cultural, political or social contexts. The research carried out both in Poland and abroad indicates that a child is a competent unit capable of making logical utterances with the content which shows deep understanding of the world. This text is based on the following theoretical studies: – thinking about a child originating in a postmodernist childhood paradigm as well as psychological constructivism; – the analysis of research material has been based on Judith Butler’s theory – Frames of War.

Children’s art as document of the epoch

2019 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mariana Gurmidolova ◽  
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Keyword(s):  
Fine Arts ◽  
Children's Drawings ◽  
Historical Events ◽  
Children's Art ◽  
Important Place ◽  
Spiritual Culture ◽  
Works Of Art ◽  
Children’S Drawings ◽  
The World ◽  
Source Of Information

The children’s art occupies an important place in the cultural space. Each child’s drawing reflects the culture of an epoch and therefore it can be investigated as a special document. Historical events, rituals, traditions, habits, clothing – everything is demonstrated in the children’s artwork. The children’s art language has specific features. It is generalized, spontaneous, expressive and schematic. All these characteristics give us reason to talk about children’s visual meta-language. In order to interpret children’s drawings correctly, we must know the principles of the meta-language. Each child’s drawing is a source of information about the tangible and spiritual culture of an epoch. Very often the children’s drawings possess some of the qualities of the works of art, created by mature artists. However, children’s art has its own principles, specific qualities and methods of creativity and therefore it is given a sovereign place in the world of fine arts.

scholarly journals Critical Analysis of Children’s Drawings as a Diagnostic Tool for Body Schema and Body Image Disorder in Cerebral Palsy

2016 ◽  
Vol 07 (04) ◽  
pp. 133-148 ◽  
Author(s):  
Renée Lampe ◽  
Ines Lützow ◽  
Tobias Blumenstein ◽  
Varvara Turova ◽  
Ana Alves-Pinto
Keyword(s):  
Body Image ◽  
Cerebral Palsy ◽  
Diagnostic Tool ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Body Schema ◽  
Children's Drawings ◽  
Children’S Drawings ◽  
Body Image Disorder

scholarly journals Koncepcje „natury rzeczy” w zachodnioniemieckiej filozofii prawa

Etyka ◽  
1981 ◽  
Vol 19 ◽  
pp. 133-155
Author(s):  
Tomasz Gizbert-Studnicki
Keyword(s):  
Real World ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Social Relationship ◽  
Social Reality ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Minor Role ◽  
The Real ◽  
The World ◽  
Objective Sense ◽  
A Minor

The article contains a critical analysis of two conceptions of “the nature of things”, as found in publications of West German philosophers of law: G. Radbruch and W. Maihoffer. In the first stage of the evolution of his thought Radbruch spoke of the “influence of the matter on the legal idea”. The function of “the nature of things” is identified by Radbruch with resistance by social reality to the implantation of the legal idea. In the next stage of his views Radbruch conceives of the nature of things as an objective sense of a certain social relationship, perceived from the point of view of a certain value. Now the nature of things serves as a bridge between the real world and the world of values. The nature of things has a minor role according to Radbruch, in legal thought. He emphatically opposes recognizing it as a source of law.

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