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Sorin, Reesa; Gordon, Iain J. – International Education Studies, 2013
Australia holds some of the most unique, diverse and vulnerable ecosystems in the world, ranging from marine, coral reefs, to the arid and semi-arid outback, to tropical rainforests. Young children's perceptions of, and attitudes to their environment carry with them into adulthood, determining their capacity to learn about and interact with their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Environmental Education, Ecology, Young Children
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Jolley, Richard; Zhang, Zhi – International Journal of Art & Design Education, 2012
The benefits of drawing for children are wide-ranging but are likely to be mediated by the art curriculum and other governmental guidance to teachers relevant to drawing/art. Furthermore, such statutory regulations vary between cultures, and therefore curricula represent an important influence on the cultural differences found in children's…
Descriptors: Childrens Art, Art Education, Infants, Foreign Countries
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Burton, Judith M. – Studies in Art Education: A Journal of Issues and Research in Art Education, 2009
Volume 1, No. 2, of "Studies in Art Education," appearing in spring 1960, included an article by Viktor Lowenfeld titled "Creative Intelligence." Here, he highlighted his belief in the importance of creative intelligence to human functioning, linking it to creative practice as represented most purely in the artworks of children and untutored…
Descriptors: Creativity, Intelligence, Theories, Art
Yohani, Sophie C.; Larsen, Denise J. – Canadian Journal of Counselling, 2009
Children's adjustment to resettlement countries is vitally important to future outcomes, yet little attention is given to the role of hope in this process. This research focused on expressions of hope in 10 refugee and immigrant children during early years of resettlement. Using case study methods that employed arts-based data collection,…
Descriptors: Refugees, Immigrants, Children, Adjustment (to Environment)
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Dove, Jane – Journal of Biological Education, 2011
This article analyses how rainforests are portrayed in children's resources. Twenty books and 12 websites on rainforests, designed for pupils aged between 9 and 14 years, were examined to determine the types and range of animals depicted and how plant life in general is portrayed. The most commonly depicted animal was the orang-utan and other…
Descriptors: Plants (Botany), Animals, Botany, Web Sites
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Watts, Robert – Education 3-13, 2010
This article aims to explore the issues that face primary school teachers when responding to children's drawings. Assessment in art and design is an ongoing concern for teachers with limited experience and confidence in the area and, although children's drawings continue to be a focus of much research, the question of what it is that teachers say…
Descriptors: Childrens Art, Elementary School Teachers, Freehand Drawing, Elementary School Students
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La Du, Karen Herbert – SchoolArts: The Art Education Magazine for Teachers, 2008
In this article, the author shares an activity she introduced to her students. In this particular activity, students are required to design a figure, a wardrobe, and an environment for paper dolls. The author got the inspiration for this activity from her childhood pastime of playing with paper dolls. (Contains 1 online resource.)
Descriptors: Studio Art, Elementary Education, Art Activities, Childrens Art
Landin, Jennifer – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The use of drawing in the classroom has a contentious history in the U.S. education system. While most instructors and students agree that the activity helps students focus and observe more details, there is a lack of empirical data to support these positions. This study examines the use of three treatments (writing a description, drawing a…
Descriptors: Student Behavior, Verbal Learning, Biology, Cognitive Processes
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Rubin, Mary – SchoolArts: The Art Education Magazine for Teachers, 2009
This article describes the Fundred Dollar Bill Project which is an innovative artwork made of millions of drawings. This creative collective action is intended to support Operation Paydirt, an extraordinary art/science project uniting three million children with educators, scientists, healthcare professionals, designers, urban planners, engineers,…
Descriptors: Art Activities, Freehand Drawing, Cooperation, Sculpture
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McCullough, Courtney – Art Therapy: Journal of the American Art Therapy Association, 2009
In this article, the author examines the use of transitional objects in a case study of a 12-year-old boy, documenting the role of art therapy in helping the boy cope with the trauma of his parents' recent separation and divorce. Transitional objects emerged spontaneously as the boy integrated the transition that the divorce of his parents…
Descriptors: Divorce, Males, Children, Case Studies
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Yurtal, Filiz; Artut, Kazim – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2010
This study investigates Turkish children's perception of violence in school as represented through drawings and narratives. In all, 66 students (12 to 13 years old) from the middle socioeconomic class participated. To elicit children's perception of violence, they were asked to draw a picture of a violent incident they had heard, experienced, or…
Descriptors: Childrens Art, Violence, Foreign Countries, Freehand Drawing
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Coy, Mary – SchoolArts: The Art Education Magazine for Teachers, 2008
Having taken close to 5000 digital pictures in the last few years, the author can easily say that nearly half of them are of her students' artwork. As stated in her May 2006 article in "SchoolArts", "Digital Diversity," the author uses her photos in everything from digital presentations to parent communication, in permanent art exhibits in school,…
Descriptors: Photography, Production Techniques, Art Products, Student Projects
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Barndt, Deborah, Ed. – SUNY Press, 2011
This compelling collection of inspiring case studies from community arts projects in five countries will inform and inspire students, artists, and activists. "VIVA!" is the product of a five-year transnational research project that integrates place, politics, passion, and praxis. Framed by postcolonial theories of decolonization, the…
Descriptors: Popular Education, Art Education, Community Development, Social Change
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Hopperstad, Marit Holm – Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 2010
This paper reports on an ethnographic study conducted with two Year 1 classes in two different Norwegian schools. In total, 35 five- and six-year-old children were involved in the study and were observed over a two-month period as they engaged in learning activities that involved drawing. Building on Kress and Van Leeuwen's (1996) theory of a…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Visual Literacy, Teacher Attitudes, Freehand Drawing
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Andreou, Eleni; Bonoti, Fotini – School Psychology International, 2010
Traditionally, studies assessing children's experiences of bullying and victimization have focused on the use of questionnaires and peer-nominations. The present study aimed to investigate this phenomenon by using two complementary assessment tools, namely self-reported questionnaires and children's drawings. The sample consisted of 448 boys and…
Descriptors: Childrens Art, Bullying, Aggression, Questionnaires
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