Understanding analytical drawings of preschool children : the importance of a dialog with a child

Podobnik, Uršula (author), Jerman, Janez (author), Selan, Jurij (author)

Child’s understanding and intentions are not always easy to read in drawings. This is particularly evident in the type of drawings we refer to as ‘analytical drawings’. In order to understand analytical drawings made by preschool children, it is important to have a dialogue with the young authors. In our study, we examined the ability of students of pedagogy study programmes to interpret an example of a preschooler’s analytic drawing where the intentions are not readily apparent. Using the example of an analytical drawing of a six-year-old girl, we designed a questionnaire that was administered to 226 students of the Faculty of Education at the University of Ljubljana. Using the questionnaire, we evaluated the students’ ability to interpret the content and the child’s intentions expressed in the analytical drawing, as well as their opinions about what they would find most useful to help them to interpret the girl’s drawing. The results confirmed our hypothesis that it is impossible to understand, interpret, and evaluate these types of children’s analytic drawings without a dialogue with a child.

• Language: English
• Keywords: preschool child, children’s drawing, analytical drawing, visual art competence, dialogue
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: PEF - Faculty of Education
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2024
• Number of pages: Str. 189–203
• Numbering: Vol. 32, no. 1
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-154474
• UDC: 373.2.016:74
• ISSN on article: 1469-8463
• DOI: 10.1080/09669760.2021.1960802
• COBISS.SI-ID: 73279235
• Publication date in RUL: 16.02.2024

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: International journal of early years education
• Shortened title: Int. j. early years educ.
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis
• ISSN: 1469-8463
• COBISS.SI-ID: 518763801

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Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: predšolski otroci, vizualne kompetence, analitično risanje, risarske tehnike, predšolska vzgoja