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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"children's drawings"”.
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Children's drawings of model houses: A developmental study
… was to investigate: (1) the difference between drawings from two and three-dimensional models in terms of projectivity, detail, and proportion; (2) the relative influences of color and line on children's drawings; (3) the difference between multicolored material and monochrome material when …
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Artistic expression: The development of representational strategies in children's drawings
… investigate the development of expressivity in childrens' and adolescents' drawings, color choice, and judgment of expressive drawing, in order to reexamine some contemporary cognitive and artistic developmental theories. Elements such as lines, forms, colors can be seen in their drawings and …
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One object behind another: A cross-cultural study of partial occlusion in children's drawings
"Young children do not typically represent in their drawings the occlusion of a farther object by a near one. According to previous studies, they frequently depict the two objects side by side, one above the other, or one transparently overlapping the other. Reasons for doing so are usually …
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Spatial Presentation in Children's Drawings: Why Do Japanese Children Draw in Their Own Particular Ways
… a particular method of spatial treatment in children's drawings based on the universality of artistic development. In a pilot study of cross-cultural analysis of children's artistic development which was done from 1993 through 1995, spatial similarities and differences were examined in …
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The effect of development, manipulation of objects, and verbal cues on the spacial representation in young children's drawings
… spacial representation in observational drawing. Children from three developmental levels, four-, five-, and six-year-olds were given the task to draw a transparent object in front of an opaque object. The experimental variables included various levels of object examination and instruction about …
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Analysis of the relationship between pre-kindergarten children's drawing and language
Young children begin to draw spontaneously, and their drawings develop in complexity and skill as they become older. Previously, children's drawings have been utilized to assess aspects of emotional and cognitive development. On the other hand, very few studies have used children's drawings as a …
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A Correlational-Developmental Study of Sexual Symbols, Actions, and Themes in Children's Kinetic Family and Human Figure Drawings
… Sexual characteristics normally included in children's drawings need to be identified. This study sought to gain definitive information regarding the relationship between (1) child's age, (2) child's sex, (3) media exposure, and (4) sexual characteristics included in Human Figure Drawings …
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Children's Artistic Development and the Influence of Visual Culture
… them, and examine the applicability to current children's drawings. I also investigated subject matter to find out the frequency of visual culture in the drawings. I collected first and fifth grade drawings at a suburban, public elementary school analyzed them by use of two different checklists …
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Not just something you put in a frying pan and give to your family : children's meaning making and salmon restoration
… restoration by exploring the lived experience of children ages eight to 12 who participated in an eight-month salmon restoration education program, the Salmonid Enhancement Program (SEP), through the Kamloops School District and the Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO). The study used a …
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Managing Stigma in Planned Lesbian-Parent Families
… and lesbians are having, adopting, and raising children in record numbers. The purpose of this study was to identify how parents and children in planned lesbian-parent families live in a homophobic society where they face social prejudice on a daily basis. Data were obtained from interviews with …
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'Street children' and education: a comparative study of European and third world approaches
“Street children” appear, within current forms of state provision, an irreversible aspect of the world's 'out of school youth 1. NGOs demonstrate appropriate strategies, but do not have the resources for widespread action. State Educational Systems are inert, but have the possibility of a more …
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Representational redescription and the development of cognitive flexibility
… flexibility.<br></br><br></br>Data from children's drawings and block balancing, along with a theoretical analysis of the model indicate that the details of the Representational Redescription theory are not consistent or plausible. In particular the concepts of initial procedural …
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An exploration of children's drawing, talking and thinking
This study explores children's ways of conceptualisation through what children draw and what they say about their drawings. Drawings taken from 40 children between the ages of 5-10 form the main data of the study. Ten basic categories are drawn from a careful analysis of the drawings. The study …
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Primary school children at academic risk : a qualitative study of an educational psychology schools-based indirect service delivery strategy
… detection and screening procedures to identify children academically at risk. Parent Counsellor Assistants trained in non-directive play therapy were then matched individually with these children and worked with them on a weekly basis over a period of seven months. The educational psychologist …
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The relationship of unmanipulated self-reports of children's internalized representation of numbers to mathematics achievement
The purpose of this research was to examine children's unmanipulated self-reports of their internalized representation of numbers and the relationship of the spatio-organizational patterns that are represented by the children's drawings to children's ability to solve basic addition problems. Also …
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Assessing young children's personal constructs of `nature' using a modified repertory grid test : a case study
… the personal construct systems of young children (ages 4 to 6) regarding the notion of 'nature,' conducted at a Montessori Casa in Toronto, Ontario. Images from the participants' drawings of 'nature' were used in a card sorting exercise and as elements in a modified repertory grid test. …
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Das mathematische Weltbild von Lernenden der Grundschule
Die individuellen mathematischen Weltbilder einer Person bilden den Kontext jeglicher mathematischen Denk- und Handlungsweise, die diese Person ausübt. Besonders im schulischen Kontext stellt daher das Wissen der Lehrenden über die mathematischen Weltbilder der Lernenden ein Fundament guten …