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Drawing and Painting
Children and Visual Representation

Second Edition


March 2003 | 240 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd
Author John Matthews questions inherited wisdom about children's development in visual representation. The traditional approach describes children's development in terms of supposed deficits in which children progress from "primitive" earlier stages to "superior" ones, until they arrive at an endpoint of "visual realism."

The author explains different models of development in visual expression. Instead of measuring children's efforts against an adult paradigm, the new models identify the modes of representation used by children as consequences of children's own intentions, motivations, and priorities.
 
Introduction
 
Painting in Action
 
Actions, Skills and Meaning
 
The Beginning of Painting and Drawing
 
Movement into Shape
 
Seeing and Knowing
 
Space and Time
 
The Origin of Literacy
Young Children Learn to Read

 
 
Children Begin to Show Depth in their Drawings
 
Why Do Many Children Give Up Drawing and Painting?
What Can We Do to Help?

 

A good book that I have used with my students when discussing creatvity in the primary classroom.

Mrs Amanda Thomas
Faculty of Life Sciences and Education, University of South Wales (Glamorgan)
February 5, 2015

This text simplified a complex area and engaged my students in new interpretations of their children's behaviour.

Ms Micky LeVoguer
Early Childhood Studies Scheme, London Metropolitan Uni (City Campus)
December 29, 2011

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ISBN: 9780761947851
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