In this master thesis I present a child's perception of his own life world and a conversation with the child using art-making techniques. In the theoretical part I presented the definitions of childhood and the view of childhood over time, the child's life world, the characteristics of the conversation with the child and the development of the child's drawing. In the research, I focused on how children perceive their lifeworld. The research I have carried out is qualitative. I used art-making techniques (drawing) and semi-structured interviews for the questioning. I talked to the children about what they had drawn and what the drawing represented to them. I used family drawing and conversation as a method of learning about the children's life world. I was particularly interested in who the child perceives as close to him, how the child's perception of his lifeworld differs according to the child's age or developmental stage, how the child defines himself at different developmental stages, what the child inter
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