scholarly journals Drawings as imaginative expressions of philosophical ideas in a Grade 2 South African literacy classroom

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Karin S. Murris ◽  
Robyn Thompson
Keyword(s):  
Emergent Literacy ◽  
South African ◽  
Picture Book ◽  
Research Community ◽  
Philosophy For Children ◽  
Children's Drawings ◽  
Visual Research ◽  
Children’S Drawings ◽  
Unique Material

This article reports on a philosophy for children (P4C) literacy project in a South African foundation phase classroom that introduces an important new focus in the P4C classroom: the visualisation of philosophical ideas provoked by the picture book The Big Ugly Monster and the Little Stone Rabbit (2004) by Chris Wormell, giving voice to young children’s own imaginative ideas and beliefs (in this case about death). This research shows how a particular use of the community of philosophical enquiry pedagogy combined with the making of drawings necessitates a rethinking of what ‘voice’ means. We conclude that the children’s drawings bring something new into existence, thereby offering unique material and discursive opportunities for all children, including those who otherwise might not have expressed their ideas.Keywords: Comprehension; emergent literacy; visual research; community of enquiry; philosophy with children; picturebooks; death; voice; inclusion; participation

scholarly journals Bahasa Visual , Gambar Anak, dan Ilustrasi Pada Buku Cergam Anak

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 63
Author(s):  
Febrina Hanisha ◽  
Yusuf Affendi Djalari
Keyword(s):  
Picture Book ◽  
Visual Language ◽  
Children's Drawings ◽  
Children’S Drawings ◽  
Visual Approach

<em>Abstract</em><br />Visual Language, Children’s Drawing, and Illustration of Children’s Picture Book. To create illustrations that can encourage children to interact with books is by applying visual approach appropriate to the children’s imagination and development. To understand the children’s imagination can be done by observing their drawings. Children’s drawing is the result of senses what they felt. This phenomenon is called the children’s visual language. The application of children’s visual language to illustrations can be found in contemporary children’s picture book. For example, the series of picture book “Kerlip Bintang di Langit”. Through a study of children’s drawings and illustrations of “Kerlip Bintang di Langit”, this paper is intended to analyze how the visual language correlates between children’s drawings and illustrations of children’s picture book. Also, its appropriateness to the psychology development of contemporary-children based on the periodic development of children’s visual language.<br />Keywords: visual language, children’s drawing, illustration, picture book<br />Abstrak<br />Bahasa Visual, Gambar Anak, dan Ilustrasi pada Buku Cergam Anak. Salah satu cara untuk menciptakan ilustrasi yang mampu mendorong anak berinteraksi terhadap buku adalah dengan menerapkan pendekatan visual yang sesuai dengan imajinasi dan perkembangan usia anak. Cara memahami imajinasi anak dapat dilakukan dengan mengamati hasil gambarnya. Apa yang digambar oleh anak merupakan hasil kerjasama indera-indera yang mereka rasakan. Fenomena ini disebut dengan bahasa visual anak. Penerapan bahasa visual anak pada ilustrasi dapat ditemui pada buku cergam anak kontemporer. Contohnya, buku cergam “Kerlip Bintang di Langit”. Melalui kajian terhadap hasil gambar anak dan ilustrasi pada buku cergam “Kerlip Bintang di Langit”, penulisan ini dimaksudkan untuk menganalisis bagaimana korelasi bahasa visual antara gambar anak dan ilustrasi buku cergam anak. Serta, kesesuaiannya terhadap perkembangan psikologi anak-anak kontemporer berdasarkan periodesasi perkembangan bahasa visual ana

Depicting emotions for a male or for a female audience: Do children adapt the content of their drawings to the audience gender?

2021 ◽  
pp. 016502542110316
Author(s):  
Claire Brechet ◽  
Sara Creissen ◽  
Lucie D’Audigier ◽  
Nathalie Vendeville
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Contextual Cues ◽  
Children's Drawings ◽  
Emotional Information ◽  
Facial Cues ◽  
Audience Control ◽  
Children’S Drawings ◽  
Explicit Mention ◽  
Female Audience ◽  
Therapeutic Settings

When depicting emotions, children have been shown to alter the content of their drawings (e.g., number and types of expressive cues) depending on the characteristics of the audience (i.e., age, familiarity, and authority). However, no study has yet investigated the influence of the audience gender on children’s depiction of emotions in their drawings. This study examined whether drawing for a male versus for a female audience have an impact on the number and type of emotional information children use to depict sadness, anger, and fear. Children aged 7 ( N = 92) and 9 ( N = 126) were asked to draw a figure and then to produce three drawings of a person, to depict three emotions (sadness, anger, fear). Children were randomly assigned to one of the three conditions: they were instructed either to draw with no explicit mention of an audience (control condition) or to draw so that the depicted emotion would be recognized by a male (male audience condition) or by a female (female audience condition). A content analysis was conducted on children’s drawings, revealing the use of seven types of graphic cues for each emotion. We found numerous differences between the three conditions relative to the type of cues used by children to depict emotions, particularly for anger and fear and particularly at the age of 7. Overall, children used facial cues more frequently for a female audience and contextual cues more frequently for a male audience. These results are discussed in terms of their implications in clinical, educational, and therapeutic settings.

scholarly journals White men and electric guns: Analysing the Amazonian dystopia through Shipibo-Konibo children’s drawings

2021 ◽  
pp. 204361062199583
Author(s):  
Thaís de Carvalho
Keyword(s):  
White Men ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Children's Drawings ◽  
Children’S Drawings ◽  
Racial Dynamics ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Andean Countries ◽  
The Village ◽  
Dual Capacity

In Andean countries, the pishtaco is understood as a White-looking man that steals Indigenous people’s organs for money. In contemporary Amazonia, the Shipibo-Konibo people describe the pishtaco as a high-tech murderer, equipped with a sophisticated laser gun that injects electricity inside a victim’s body. This paper looks at this dystopia through Shipibo-Konibo children’s drawings, presenting composite sketches of the pishtaco and maps of the village before and after an attack. Children portrayed White men with syringes and electric guns as weaponry, while discussing whether organ traffickers could also be mestizos nowadays. Meanwhile, the comparison of children’s maps before and after the attack reveals that lit lampposts are paradoxically perceived as a protection at night. The paper examines changing features of pishtacos and the dual capacity of electricity present in children’s drawings. It argues that children know about shifting racial dynamics in the village’s history and recognise development’s oxymoron: the same electricity that can be a weapon is also used as a shield.

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