Howard,
Thank you very much for this information.
I have now written to him.
Dolly
www.bingbangbong.org.uk
----- Original Message -----
From: "Riley, Howard" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2001 10:04 AM
Subject: Re: Drawing Research Network Meeting
> Hi, JoDoViDa, This is a response to your inquiry about psychologists'
> involvement with children's drawing. I didn't catch the beginning of this
> thread, so apologies if I'm repeating previously listed info. Norman
> Freeman has published interesting work in this area. I remember him
> presenting a paper at the Loughborough symposium Drawin g Across
Boundaries
> in September 1998. Perhaps this would help you?
> Regards, Howard
> Dr Howard Riley PhD MA(RCA)
> Coordinator for Postgraduate Research
> School of Art & Design
> Swansea Institute
> Townhill Road
> Swansea SA2 0UT
> UK
> Phone +01792 481285
> Fax +01792 205305
> email [log in to unmask]
>
>
> > ----------
> > From: JoDoViDa
> > Reply To: The UK drawing research network mailing list
> > Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2001 4:33 pm
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: Re: Drawing Research Network Meeting
> >
> > Richard,
> >
> > Thank you for your response. I have put together an initial draft for a
> > research process. If you send me your e-mail address I will forward it
to
> > you if you want. Any comments would be gratefully appreciated.
> >
> > Unfortunately I do not know any educational psychologists who use
drawing
> > in their work, but I shall certainly look out for some and if you happen
> > to know any personally who may like to share information, I will gladly
> > contact them.
> >
> > Regards
> > Dolly
> >
> > www.bingbangbong.org.uk
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Richard Keating
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Sent: Thursday, November 22, 2001 10:42 AM
> > Subject: Re: Drawing Research Network Meeting
> >
> > Dolly
> >
> > I had already spoken to my wife who teaches in primary school -
> > neither of us is aware of this kind of research although with literacy
> > hours and literacy weeks, there must be artists who have run this kind
of
> > workshop.
> >
> > Are you looking for support in running a session or sessions in
> > schools to trial this? How far have you got? Have you got as far as
> > designing a research process? How would you measure the impact/effect?
> >
> > Have you approached any education psychologists who may have used
> > this as learning strategy for special needs kids?
> >
> > Regards
> > Richard Keating
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: JoDoViDa
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2001 10:49 PM
> > Subject: Drawing Research Network Meeting
> >
> > Leo,
> >
> > Thanks for the resume about activities at Kingston. I am
> > very interested in research into holding workshops for primary teachers
> > and digital drawing. I am also interested in any research you (or
anyone
> > else on the list) may know about regarding the effects of children
drawing
> > in response to text.
> >
> > I am a final year BEd(Hons) student at University of North
> > London, on the last lap before embarking on a primary teaching career.
> > For my research project I am looking into how encouraging children to
draw
> > in response to text can develop their connection, comprehension and
> > enhance their written response.
> >
> > I am concerned that the National Curriculum has pushed art
> > even further down the list of importance in schools. Children younger
and
> > younger are being restricted to representing their thoughts in writing
> > only. This, I believe, a) impedes their cognitive development because
> > they limit their response to the level of their writing development; b)
> > stops their artistic growth at a crucial point after which, according to
> > Howard Gardner, if their skills are not honed only the most motivated
will
> > continue; c) by restricting children to written language they are denied
> > forms of expression which are unique and irreplaceable.
> >
> > I am conducting this research from the perspective of one
> > who is extremely inartistic and very happy to work in words, but
> > recognises that it is unfair to limit children to my own likes. In
> > addition my research to date has intensified my belief in the importance
> > of drawing, not as something which should be brought in to help raise
SATs
> > levels (although I do believe it can develop the quality of children's
> > writing), but as something which can deepen and enrich children's
> > understanding of text and of the world.
> >
> > To quote A K Voronsky (Art as the Cognition of Life, 1998,
> > Mehring Books):
> > "Like science, art cognizes life.... But science analyses,
> > art synthesizes; science is abstract, art is concrete; science turns to
> > the mind of man, art to his sensual nature. Science cognizes life with
> > the help of concepts, art with the aid of images in the form of living,
> > sensual contemplation."
> >
> > Any thoughts from you artistic people would be welcome.
> >
> > Thanks
> > Dolly
> >
> > www.bingbangbong.org.uk
> >
> >
>
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