JoDoViDa
Following Howard's earlier email, I should say that my colleague Judith
Mottram <[log in to unmask]> has CDs of the proceedings of the Drawing
Across Boundaries Symposium.
Also, there are some really excellent chapters on research in children's
drawing in the following book:
Freeman, N. H., & Cox, M. V. (eds). (1985). Visual Order: the nature and
development of pictorial representation. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge
University Press.
Slightly old, but well worth a read, in my view.
George Whale.
>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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