Evaluation of Graphic-Pictorial Characteristics and Contents in the Representation of Legality

2010 ◽  
Vol 437 ◽  
pp. 550-554
Author(s):  
Francesca Baralla ◽  
Anna Maria Giannini ◽  
Roberto Sgalla
Keyword(s):  
Primary School ◽  
Effective Communication ◽  
Children's Drawings ◽  
Children’S Drawings ◽  
Communication Modalities ◽  
Primary School Pupils ◽  
Expressive Strategies

The present study examines how child drawers selectively use a set of potential expressive strategies in accordance with the nature of the topic being depicted. The phenomenological and psychodynamic method in the evaluation of drawing activity may thus be a particularly appropriate way to find interesting relationships between the variables considered. People leave in a world of signs and symbols that are verbal or gestural or, of a variety of other modalities, graphic. Through drawing, it is possible to represent memories, events, propositions, ideas, plans and also properties of the habitus or of the ethos. Several authors 1 2 3 have proposed that children’s drawings are often based on schemata, which seem to relate to the typical representation of the topic in question. This study lies within broader research into the perception of legality and into the relative effective communication modalities. Primary school pupils, aged 7-9 years, took part in the study to assess the graphic style, quality of shapes and colours, and the graphic accuracy of drawings focusing on the representation of legality.

scholarly journals Characteristics of the Romanians' Religiosity Highlighted in Their Children's Drawings

2018 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 394-399
Author(s):  
Daniela Sorea
Keyword(s):  
Primary School ◽  
Social Practices ◽  
Research Topic ◽  
Political Regime ◽  
Western World ◽  
Children's Drawings ◽  
Beliefs And Practices ◽  
Children’S Drawings ◽  
Primary School Pupils

Abstract The religiosity of the contemporary Western World is marked by the process of secularization that strengthens atheism, but it evolves to a post-secular stage of recovering the values of Christianity in models of good social practices. Contemporary Western religiosity is also characterized by the revival of pre-Christian local beliefs and practices and the spread of new, imported forms of spirituality. Religiosity is a hard to tackle research topic, due to the reluctance of people to talk about their beliefs. Analyzing how children draw God is a way to overcome this difficulty. In the former socialist states of Europe, these characteristics intertwine with the effects of exiting from an atheistic programmatic political regime. Theoretical coding of drawings made on request by Romanian primary school pupils in 2004 and 2016 provides information on children's religiosity. They provide information on how Romanians see themselves on account of their religiosity compared to the trends of evolution of Western religiosity, as well as on the effects of introducing religion as a subject of study in Romanian schools

The personality and competences of primary-school teachers: a research study

2021 ◽  
Vol 3/2021 (2) ◽  
pp. 41-50
Author(s):  
Lucia Ludvigh Cintulová ◽  
Libuša Radková
Keyword(s):  
Primary School ◽  
Research Study ◽  
Educational Outcome ◽  
Central Importance ◽  
School Teachers ◽  
Primary School Teachers ◽  
Attitudes And Knowledge ◽  
Primary School Pupils ◽  
The Ideal

This article presents an investigation into how primary-school pupils imagine a good teacher and what characteristics of teachers they appreciate. The teacher’s personality is a quality of central importance to the teaching process. Teachers find themselves in many diverse situations and they cannot always remain the same. Each situation requires different qualities, attitudes and knowledge. In different situations, the teacher can achieve the same educational outcome in various ways, by using a range of methods. No teacher can be expected to have the ideal personality and cannot possibly have all the desired qualities, so some qualities compensate for the lack of others. However, the crucial aspects of a good teacher’s personality is authenticity, naturalness and positive relationship with pupils.

scholarly journals Draw-A-Science-Comic: Alternative prompts and the presence of danger

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jaakko Lamminpää ◽  
Veli-Matti Vesterinen
Keyword(s):  
Secondary Education ◽  
Primary School ◽  
Detailed Analysis ◽  
Primary Education ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Children's Drawings ◽  
Children’S Drawings ◽  
Children’S Conceptions ◽  
Two Age Groups

The early years of primary school are important in shaping how children see scientists and science, but researching younger children is known to be difficult. The Draw-A-Scientist Test (DAST), in which students are asked to draw a scientist, has been one of the most popular ways to chart children’s conceptions of scientists and science. However, DAST tends to focus mainly on children’s conceptions about the appearance of scientists. To focus more on children’s conceptions of scientific activities as well as the emotions and attitudes associated with science, the Draw-A-Science-Comic test (DASC) was recently introduced. This study compares three alternative DASC prompts for two age groups of respondents (8- to 10-year-olds and 10- to 13-year-olds). The prompts asking students to draw a comic or a set of pictures produced significantly more sequential storytelling and depictions of science related emotions and attitudes than the prompt asking students to depict a story. The depictions of elements of danger, such as accidents and hazards in the laboratory, were also frequent in drawings with sequential storytelling. A more detailed analysis of the depictions showed that the frequency of elements of danger was closely associated with depictions of activity especially in the field of chemistry. For example, several comics included failed chemical experiments leading to explosions. Although depictions of danger are sometimes interpreted as a negative conception, in the children’s drawings the explosions and overflowing flasks were often seen also as a source of excitement and joy. Based on the result of this study, the use of DASC seems a suitable way for charting children’s conceptions of scientific activities as well as the emotions and attitudes associated with science from the early years of primary education until the beginning of secondary education.

scholarly journals ACTIVE TEACHING THROUGH MATHEMATICAL PROBLEMS IN PRIMARY SCHOOL / AKTYVUSIS MOKYMAS SPRENDŽIANT MATEMATIKOS UŽDAVINIUS PRADINĖSE KLASĖSE

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (41) ◽  
pp. 213
Author(s):  
Tamar Dograshvili
Keyword(s):  
Primary School ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Mathematical Education ◽  
Teaching Process ◽  
Active Teaching ◽  
Mathematical Problems ◽  
Methodological Approaches ◽  
Primary School Pupils

<p>Active teaching is a key component in the education system at all stages of education. In practice, introduction of active teaching in mathematics teaching in primary school poses significant challenges for teachers. To solve this problem, we have developed a methodological approach described in this article. In particular, we suggest an active teaching model whose realization is linked to the inclusion of problems with developmental and interdisciplinary content in the teaching process in mathematics classes. The solutions of these problems are associated with particular themes in mathematics classes. We discuss the methodology for constructing the systems of problems with developmental and interdisciplinary content in accordance with particular themes in mathematics classes in primary school, which is based on the scheme that we developed. We have also analyzed the indicators of including such problems in mathematics classes in primary school and the results of the educational experiment demonstrating that the author’s methodological approaches provide a high quality of mathematical education for primary school pupils, make the teaching process interesting and attractive, and ensure their involvement in the process of active teaching and learning through the systems of specially selected problems.</p><p>Aktyvusis mokymas yra pagrindinis ugdymo sistemos komponentas visais ugdymo etapais. Praktinis aktyviojo matematikos mokymo pradinėse klasėse įgyvendinimas mokytojams kelia rimtų iššūkių. Norėdami išspręsti šią problemą, mes sukūrėme metodinę prieigą, aprašytą šiame straipsnyje. Mes siūlome aktyviojo mokymo modelį, kurio įgyvendinimas yra susijęs su lavinamojo ir tarpdalykinio turinio uždavinių įtraukimu į mokymo procesą matematikos pamokose. Šių uždavinių sprendimai yra susiję su konkrečiomis temomis, nagrinėjamomis per matematikos pamokas. Mes aptariame lavinamojo ir tarpdalykinio turinio uždavinių sistemų konstravimo metodiką, pagrįstą mūsų sudaryta schema, pagal konkrečias pradinių klasių matematikos pamokų temas. Taip pat išanalizavome tokių uždavinių įtraukimo į matematikos pamokas pradinėse klasėse rodiklius ir edukacinio eksperimento rezultatus, parodydami, kad autorės metodinės prieigos lemia aukštą pradinių klasių mokinių matematinio ugdymo kokybę, mokymo procesą daro įdomų bei patrauklų ir užtikrina mokinių dalyvavimą aktyvaus mokymo bei mokymosi procese sprendžiant tikslingai parinktų uždavinių sistemas</p>

A comparative study of representations about disability in primary school children's drawings: a sociosemiotic approach

2013 ◽  
Vol 23 (5) ◽  
pp. 663-674 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pipini Eleftheriou ◽  
Anastasia G. Stamou ◽  
Anastasia Alevriadou ◽  
Eleni Tsakiridou
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Study ◽  
Primary School ◽  
Children's Drawings ◽  
Children’S Drawings

scholarly journals Modern foreign investigations of difficulties in understanding of texts among primary school pupils

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 83-91
Author(s):  
S.P. Sanina ◽  
M.V. Enzhevskaya
Keyword(s):  
Primary School ◽  
Reading Skills ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Good Reading ◽  
Canadian Chinese ◽  
Primary School Pupils ◽  
Pedagogical Science

In the article, the reader can observe the experience taken from foreign publications that focus on the problems of teaching primary school pupils how to understand the texts, which is one of the most important universal competences in the educational process. The author studied and analyzed the investigations of American, Finnish, Canadian, Chinese and other scientists in this field. The author found out that during the latest half of the century the quality of reading among pupils has dramatically decreased and has a tendency to get even worse. The most attention in the article was paid to the investigations that demonstrate the possible causes of incorrect reading and understanding of the informative texts among pupils. Among the causes there are: the difficulty of the text that influences the understanding of it, using different methods of teaching how to read the text, the control and evaluation of reading skills etc. In the article there are enlisted the factors that contribute to the better understanding of texts. There are also mentioned some strategies of coping with problems and forming the good reading skills. The scientific works that are mentioned in the article have a great importance in the theory and practice of pedagogical science, as the ability to understand the text correctly is not only important for successful educational process at school, but is also an essential ability in life

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