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
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> From: JoDoViDa
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> Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2001 4:33 pm
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> Subject: Re: Drawing Research Network Meeting
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> 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
>
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> From: Richard Keating
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> 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
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> 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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