Richard P Jolley

Children and Pictures

Drawing and Understanding

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In Children and Pictures, Richard P. Jolley critiques both the historical and contemporary studies conducted in the field of children's making and understanding of pictures. Some highlights of Children and Pictures are: * What develops, and why, in children's representational and expressive drawing, both in typical, atypical, and cross-cultural populations. * The developing relationship between production and comprehension of pictures. * Children's understanding of pictures as symbolic representations. * Practical and applied uses of drawings, particularly in clinical and legal settings. * Diverse educational practices of teaching drawing across the world. Presenting up-to-date research and pointing towards future topics of study, Children and Pictures brings the study of children's drawings into mainstream child development studies. This is an edifying resource for students, researchers, practitioners, parents, artists, and educators in the field.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 155mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 703g
• ISBN-13: 9781405105439
• ISBN-10: 1405105437
• Artikelnr.: 22729312

Autorenporträt

Richard P. Jolley is Senior Lecturer in the Psychology department at Staffordshire University, UK. In the 13 years since completing his PhD in children's making and understanding of expressive pictures he has broadened his research interests in the topic of "children and pictures," taking a variety of perspectives including developmental, cognitive, clinical, educational, aesthetic, and cross-cultural.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments.

Credits.

Introduction.

1 The Development of Representational Drawing.

2 The Development of Expressive Drawing.

3 Drawings from Children in Special Populations.

4 Production and Comprehension of Representational Drawing.

5 Children's Understanding of the Dual Nature ofPictures.

6 Drawings as Measures of Internal Representations.

7 Drawings as Assessment Tools: Intelligence, Personality andEmotionality.

8 Drawing as Memory Aids.

9 Cultural Influences on Children's Drawings.

10 The Education of Drawing.

11 Future Directions.

Further Reading.

References.

Author Index.

Subject Index.

Plates.

Rezensionen

"Children's drawing is a fascinating topic with a wide-rangingappeal, and this well-written and well-informed book will bevery useful to students and researchers of child development andart education, as well as being accessible to the generalreader. In ten clearly laid out chapters Richard Jolley givesan up-to-date overview of some of the debates in the field, anoverview amply supported by research findings. In a furtherand final chapter he suggests "future directions"which, I'm sure, will provide food for thought for many of theup-and-coming generation of researchers."
-Dr Maureen Cox, Emeritus Reader, Department ofPsychology, University of York

"A long time in the making, this book was well worth waitingfor. It is unusual in the range of topics it covers and theimportance it accords to the field. It can serve both as anintroduction for new readers and as a resource for establishedresearchers, which is extraordinarily hard to bring off. Thisis because the author is clearly conducting a dialogue with thereader throughout, in a gracefully styled stream of writing."
-Norman Freeman, Emeritus Professor and SeniorResearch Fellow, Cognitive Development, University of Bristol

"Psychologist Richard Jolley takes the reader on a fascinatingjourney, using children's drawings and their understanding ofpictures as a way to understand children's minds. This bookwill enlighten researchers, clinicians, educators, and parents- anyone who wants to understand why children draw in thesometimes odd, almost always charming, way that they do."
-Ellen Winner, Professor of Psychology, BostonCollege, and Senior Research Associate, Project Zero, HarvardUniversity