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Gryczka, Constance – School Arts, 1989
Describes the collection of art work produced by male orphans at Starhie school (Nairobi, Kenya). The drawings portray scenes of village life which are representative of past experiences of these students. Suggests ways in which these materials can be used in the classroom. Offers selections of drawings. (KO)
Descriptors: Art Education, Childrens Art, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Exchange

Dowling, Sheila – Journal of Art and Design Education, 1994
Focuses on a group of children with moderate learning difficulties who exhibited a lack of interest or enjoyment in drawing. Attributes this to a developmental lag in the use of specific forms and drawing skills. Concludes that nonspecialist teachers could benefit from a greater awareness of developmental stages. (MJP)
Descriptors: Child Development, Childrens Art, Cognitive Development, Developmental Stages
Winarski, Diana L. – Teaching PreK-8, 1995
Describes activities of kindergarten through grade-four students in an art classroom that emphasizes expression of creative process along with the product. Explores interconnections between art, thinking, and writing as expressed by a former language arts teacher who transfers her knowledge of language, words, and creative expression to art. (BAC)
Descriptors: Art Activities, Art Expression, Childrens Art, Class Activities
Mulkey, Mary – Teaching PreK-8, 1995
Suggests that asking children to color within the lines does not stifle their creativity but is similar to expecting children to stand in line for the bus or write neatly. Proposes that expecting students to color within the lines is establishing a basis of knowledge and control from which they can eventually explore more creative avenues of…
Descriptors: Art Activities, Art Expression, Childrens Art, Creative Expression

Clyde, Jean Anne; Mills, Heidi – Dimensions of Early Childhood, 1993
Describes a seven-year-old boy's activity of drawing pictures of his favorite sport of basketball. The boy's drawing involved the use of proportional reasoning, which requires an understanding of how relationships between objects vary systematically. (BB)
Descriptors: Basketball, Childrens Art, Concept Formation, Elementary School Students

Unsworth, Jean Morman – Art Education, 1992
Reexamines basic aspects of creativity enumerated by Viktor Lowenfeld and shows how goals of art education have varied with time and social needs. Argues that interdisciplinary approach to learning, which involves seeing connections and realizing that all knowledge is one and whole, is what education is all about. Concludes that such approach was…
Descriptors: Art Activities, Art Education, Childrens Art, Creative Expression

Davis, Jessica – Educational Horizons, 1993
The natural graphic talents of very young children do not deteriorate with age. Rather, aesthetic symbols are progressively devalued in the curriculum. Greater acknowledgement of the importance of graphic symbolization will improve symbolic literacy and contribute to cognitive development. (SK)
Descriptors: Aesthetic Values, Art Education, Childrens Art, Early Childhood Education

Ryan, Margaret W. – School Arts, 1990
Describes the origins of the Peruvian Nazca Indians double-spouted jugs. Provides a lesson plan so students can create their own double-spouted jugs. (KM)
Descriptors: Art Activities, Art Appreciation, Art Education, Art Expression
Martin, Ron – School Library Media Activities Monthly, 1994
Describes a videodisk called "Draw and Color Funny Doodles with Uncle Fred" on drawing for an elementary school curriculum. Library media skills objectives, art objectives, grade levels, resources, instructional roles, activities/procedures, evaluation, and follow-up are included. (LRW)
Descriptors: Art Activities, Art Education, Childrens Art, Course Integrated Library Instruction

Lannes, D.; Flavoni, L.; De Meis, L. – Biochemical Education, 1998
Investigates school children's images of scientists in Brazil, the United States, France, Italy, Chile, Mexico, India, and Nigeria by having them make drawings. Discusses the relationship between image and career choice. (DDR)
Descriptors: Career Awareness, Childrens Art, Concept Formation, Cross Cultural Studies
Farris, Cynthia Cox – Arts & Activities, 1999
Presents a lesson where second- and third-grade students draw imaginary birds after examining pictures of real birds to get ideas for various poses. Explains the use of colors where the students learn to blend colors using an art technique called "rainbow order." (CMK)
Descriptors: Art Education, Art Materials, Art Products, Birds
Quinn, Erin – Taproot, 1998
Interview with artist Ilka List describes her research: collecting 1872 drawings from rural and urban second- and third-grade children to determine the impact of environmental experiences on children's art, sense of self, and cognitive and emotional abilities. Children with a broad range of outdoor, nature-oriented experiences had greater spatial…
Descriptors: Art Expression, Artists, Child Development, Childrens Art

Rudenberg, Stephanie Linda; Jansen, Patricia; Fridjohn, Peter – Childhood: A Global Journal of Child Research, 2001
Investigated the effectiveness of analyzing drawings of 8- to 12-year-old children as a method of understanding the effects of living and coping with ongoing civic unrest. Compared drawings by white and black South African children with those of children from Belfast, Ireland. Found cross-national differences in stress, emotion, adjustment, and…
Descriptors: Child Welfare, Children, Childrens Art, Coping

Rabkin, Gabriele – International Review of Education, 2001
Explains the pedagogical and psychological concepts behind the approach developed by UNESCO that encourages children to express themselves freely on the subject of international understanding and peace in writing and art. Describes a project in which these concepts were applied focusing on a minority dispersed over many parts of the world:…
Descriptors: Art Expression, Childrens Art, Childrens Writing, Creative Expression

Sidelnick, Mark A.; Svoboda, Marti L. – Reading Teacher, 2000
Offers a case study of a first-grader who had trouble learning and for whom drawing was the symbol system used to organize and store her thoughts. Describes how her resource teacher capitalized on this and used drawing to move her from the visual to the spoken and then to the written word. (SR)
Descriptors: Art Activities, Case Studies, Childrens Art, Emergent Literacy