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Children and Pictures: Drawing and Understanding

ISBN: 978-1-405-10544-6

April 2009

Wiley-Blackwell

400 pages

Description
In Children and Pictures, Richard P. Jolley critiques both the historical and contemporary studies conducted in the field of children’s making and understanding of pictures.

Some highlights of Children and Pictures are:

  • What develops, and why, in children’s representational and expressive drawing, both in typical, atypical, and cross-cultural populations.
  • The developing relationship between production and comprehension of pictures.
  • Children’s understanding of pictures as symbolic representations.
  • Practical and applied uses of drawings, particularly in clinical and legal settings.
  • Diverse educational practices of teaching drawing across the world.

Presenting up-to-date research and pointing towards future topics of study, Children and Pictures brings the study of children’s drawings into mainstream child development studies. This is an edifying resource for students, researchers, practitioners, parents, artists, and educators in the field.

About the Author
Richard P. Jolley is Senior Lecturer in the Psychology department at Staffordshire University, UK. In the 13 years since completing his PhD in children's making and understanding of expressive pictures he has broadened his research interests in the topic of "children and pictures," taking a variety of perspectives including developmental, cognitive, clinical, educational, aesthetic, and cross-cultural.
Features
  • A critical review of research into how children understand and create pictures
  • Includes the authors own research on drawings as memory aids and teaching drawing techniques
  • Aims to re-establish childrens drawing as part of mainstream child development
  • Discusses the importance of children's drawings within the clinical context
  • Draws comparisons between the national curriculum for Art in Britain and other countries, focusing on the development of representation and expression, and teaching techniques