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Christian Giang; Loredana Addimando; Luca Botturi; Lucio Negrini; Alessandro Giusti; Alberto Piatti – Journal for STEM Education Research, 2023
Technologies have become an essential part of the daily life of our children. Consequently, artifacts that imply the early adoption of abstract thinking affect the imagination of children and young people in relation to the world of technology, now much more than they did in the past. With the emerging importance of robots in many aspects of our…
Descriptors: Robotics, Freehand Drawing, Childrens Art, Science Fiction
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José Domingo Villarroel; Maria Merino; Alvaro Antón – Journal of Biological Education, 2023
Previous research indicates that young children, as young as preschoolers, spontaneously draw dihedral and cyclic symmetries in their representations of the natural world. This is an intriguing find because at this age children have barely had their first contact with formal geometry and, therefore, one would not expect to find a use of symmetries…
Descriptors: Young Children, Childrens Art, Geometric Concepts, Skill Development
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Zakaria, Mohd Zafaren; Yunus, Faridah; Mohamed, Suziyani – Southeast Asia Early Childhood, 2021
Visual art activities such as the processing of output in the form of drawing encourage children to use their imagination, expression, and multiple intelligences. Through visual art activities, children can participate actively in a more enjoyable learning environment. Drawing is an essential part of children in the production of various forms…
Descriptors: Social Development, Emotional Development, Imagination, Freehand Drawing
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Farrukh Amina; Melissa M. Barnes; Eisuke Saito – Teaching Education, 2024
Despite schools being exposed to students from refugee backgrounds for decades, many schools still struggle to provide adequate academic and social support for them. As a result, this study sought to better understand the educational experiences of these students by examining their belonging experiences. The belonging experiences were captured in…
Descriptors: Refugees, Student Experience, Student School Relationship, Teacher Attitudes
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Sakr, Mona – International Journal of Education & the Arts, 2019
Facilitating collaborative creativity among children involves offering material resources that support collaborative and creative interactions. Popular views of tablets, such as the iPad, suggest that they are better suited to solitary game-playing or video-watching than to collaborative open-ended tasks. I explore this further through a social…
Descriptors: Young Children, Freehand Drawing, Handheld Devices, Cooperative Learning
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Ramli, Muhamad Firdaus; Musa, Rofidah – Southeast Asia Early Childhood, 2020
This research shares the exploration of fundamental sketch aesthetics in preschool children's educational activities on visual arts skills. The exploration of this study is bound to the involvement of visual arts essential activities to the advancement of children's preschool skills. The knowledge concerns following the advances of curative…
Descriptors: Freehand Drawing, Childrens Art, Thematic Approach, Aesthetics
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Metin, Sermin; Aral, Neriman – Cypriot Journal of Educational Sciences, 2020
This study was conducted in a survey model in order to compare the drawing development of gifted and children of normal development in the Scheme Period (7-9 years). A simple random sampling method has been included in the study of 122 gifted children with 135 children of normal development. In the study, the data were collected via the drawings…
Descriptors: Gifted, Freehand Drawing, Childrens Art, Children
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Bonoti, Fotini; Christidou, Vasilia; Spyrou, Georgia Maria – Health Education Journal, 2019
Objective: The study aimed to investigate whether children use specific types of graphic cues (facial, postural, contextual) in their drawings of healthy and ill persons and whether these cues differ as a function of age. Design: Cross-sectional design. Setting: A public primary school in a medium-sized city in Greece. Method: A total of 200…
Descriptors: Childrens Art, Freehand Drawing, Cues, Health
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Buo, Carrie; Eagle-Malone, Rebecca – Online Submission, 2021
Children in urban environments tend to have limited exposure to environmental education programs for many reasons. This paper describes the development of a short-session after-school program, created to introduce children in an inner-city school to the concept of urban ecology. In this program, we met with a class of 20 fifth graders once a week…
Descriptors: Urban Youth, Ecology, Urban Environment, After School Education
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Rech Penn, Leslie – Studies in Art Education: A Journal of Issues and Research in Art Education, 2019
In the current climate of state-mandated education standards and assessment that prioritize math and language arts in U.S. schools, drawing, an accessible and/or pleasurable endeavor for a wide variety of children, is undervalued. Although research in art education over the past four decades has shown children's drawing and drawings to be rich…
Descriptors: Freehand Drawing, Childrens Art, Kindergarten, Young Children
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Leigh, Jennifer – Journal of Early Childhood Research, 2020
Reflection is a vital part of learning, and yet in early childhood, research work on reflection is most commonly on that undertaken by teachers, and not children. This article draws from a participatory study showing how creative research methods and somatic movement enabled 22 children aged 4-11 to reflect on their experiences and document their…
Descriptors: Research Methodology, Movement Education, Reflection, Children
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Karniol, Rachel – Journal of Early Childhood Research, 2020
Preschool children from Israeli, Jewish-Orthodox families with an average of four children per family drew their families. Three aspects of gender differentiation in children's drawings were assessed in relation to children's gender and number of siblings: size of figures, colour use, and inclusion of gender-associated characteristics. Size of…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Freehand Drawing, Preschool Children, Foreign Countries
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Kim, Hyunsu – International Journal of Art & Design Education, 2018
This article is intended to identify the complex process of children's art making by bringing new methodologies into the analysis of children's pictures. This article analyses the art-making process of a selected drawing by a five-year-old boy. The study builds on previous findings regarding children's verbal discourses during the art-making…
Descriptors: Art Activities, Childrens Art, Art Products, Young Children
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Mannathoko, Magdeline Chilalu; Mamvuto, Attwell – International Journal of Art & Design Education, 2019
Drawing is one of children's modes of communication which has recently excited academic inquiry in non-Western cultures. It is the means through which children express their fears, desires, anxieties and conception of phenomena. This study investigated drawings by four- to ten-year-old Botswana children in response to the human figure as an…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Freehand Drawing, Children, Human Body
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Gardner, Howard – Studies in Art Education: A Journal of Issues and Research in Art Education, 2017
Author Howard Gardner offers his reflections on his book, "Artful Scribbles" which he wrote in 1980 and ponders the ways "Artful Scribble" if written today, might resemble or differ from the 1980 model.
Descriptors: Freehand Drawing, Books, Child Development, Art Education
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