Dear Alma,
You might find a book titled Thinking in Pictures useful. It is by Temple Grandin, a professor and highly skilled researcher with autism. Grandin does much of her thinking and planning in pictures.
https://www.amazon.com/Thinking-Pictures-Expanded-Life-Autism/dp/0307275655
You can also seen a discussion of these issues on her web site, with links to added material:
http://www.grandin.com/inc/visual.thinking.html
You are likely to find useful resources if you teach under such cognate terms as visualization, visual thinking, drawing, mapping, and so on. While the words “sketch” and “sketching” are reasonable, people may describe the phenomena you seek under any of several terms.
A look through such resources as Google Scholar, Academia, ResearchGate, and ProQuest under each of these terms is likely to help you locate many useful resources.
A search in ProQuest Central for the word “sketching” in the abstract yields 14,136 items, of which 25 are dissertations and theses. Changing the search term to “drawing” yields 1,006,359 items, of which 3,396 are dissertations and theses. This suggests to me that more authors use the term drawing than sketching — there may be differences in meaning, but some of these authors mean the same thing using a different term. A search for “visual thinking” yields 5,792 results, with 89 dissertations and theses among them.
It will take you a few days of reading abstracts to see which of these will help you.
Yours,
Ken
Ken Friedman | Editor-in-Chief | 设计 She Ji. The Journal of Design, Economics, and Innovation | Published by Tongji University in Cooperation with Elsevier | URL: http://www.journals.elsevier.com/she-ji-the-journal-of-design-economics-and-innovation/
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