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Arts and Crafts as an Educational Strategy and Coping Mechanism for Republic of Korea and United States Parents during the COVID-19 Pandemic
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Choi, Meera; Tessler, Hannah; Kao, Grace – International Review of Education, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic and ensuing stay-at-home orders have shifted family lives worldwide. Government regulations about social distancing and isolation have resulted in parents/carers and children spending most of their time together in private spaces. During the northern hemisphere spring 2020 semester, most childcare and school systems closed…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, COVID-19, Pandemics, Art Activities
From Scribbles to Meanings: Social Interaction in Different Cultures and the Emergence of Young Children's Early Drawing
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Pinto, Giuliana; Accorti Gamannossi, Beatrice; Cameron, Catherine Ann – Early Child Development and Care, 2011
The cultural components of drawing allow one to consider it a symbolic form of cultural communication. The behavioural and cognitive mechanisms involved in the cultural transmission of symbolic communications are situated in an environment embedded in cultural-historical features that should be taken into account, as they give rise to variations…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Relationship, Cultural Differences, Freehand Drawing, Young Children
Seventh Grade Students' Mental Models of the Greenhouse Effect
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Shepardson, Daniel P.; Choi, Soyoung; Niyogi, Dev; Charusombat, Umarporn – Environmental Education Research, 2011
This constructivist study investigates 225 student drawings and explanations from three different schools in the midwest in the US, to identify seventh grade students' mental models of the greenhouse effect. Five distinct mental models were derived from an inductive analysis of the content of the students' drawings and explanations: Model 1, a…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Heat, Grade 7, Climate
A Cross-Cultural Comparison of Children's Drawings of Same- and Mixed-Sex Peer Interaction.
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Rubenstein, Judith; And Others – Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 1987
A study of children's art as a function of gender of child, picture condition (drawings of same-sex versus mixed-sex dyads), and child-rearing setting (United States town, Israeli town, and Israeli kibbutz) confirms that boys, particularly Americans, are more aggressive, competitive, and hierarchical in their depicted relationships than are girls.…
Descriptors: Aggression, Children, Childrens Art, Competition
Figure Structure, Figure Action, and Framing in Drawings by American and Egyptian Children.
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Wilson, Brent; Wilson, Marjorie – Studies in Art Education, 1979
The purpose of this study is to investigate the interaction of biological unfolding and culturally related factors on sequences of narrative figure drawings by American and Egyptian elementary students. Findings support hypotheses relating to the interaction of natural and nurtural influences on children's drawings. (Author/SJL)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Development, Childrens Art, Cross Cultural Studies
American and Soviet Children's Attitudes toward Computers.
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Martin, C. Dianne; And Others – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 1992
Describes a study that examined the attitudes of 8- to 12-year-old U.S. and former Soviet children toward computers by comparing their responses to attitude statements and their drawings of computer users. Previous computer attitude studies are reviewed, and differences in gender and level of parental use of computers are discussed. (41…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Childhood Attitudes, Childrens Art, Comparative Analysis