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Children's Perspectives on Drawing. Edition No. 1
VDM Publishing House, Aug 2008, Pages: 128
This book investigates children's preferred
strategies for learning to draw. Twenty-six Grade 6
students engaged in three different drawing tasks
(observation, feeling, and cartoon), and generated
their favoured strategies for improving their drawing
skills. Students then ranked their top three
strategies for each drawing task. In addition, six
students were interviewed about their drawing
experiences and development, both inside and outside
of school. Results indicated that the participants
desired to improve their drawing skills through a
variety of strategies that reflected their outside of
school practices such as copying, tracing, getting
ideas from others, drawing with others, and watching
TV to get ideas. Help provided by the teacher and
through interactions with others were also highly
favored. The interview results further outlined
participants' desires to improve, their perceptions
of a lack of help for drawing at school, and the
importance of significant others in their drawing
development. Recommendations are suggested for
classroom teachers to incorporate learners' ways of
knowing, thinking, and representing in art education.
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