Authors: John Matthews
ISBN-13: 9780761947851, ISBN-10: 076194785X
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date Published: April 2003
Edition: Second Edition
The author questions inherited wisdom about children's development in visual representation. The traditional approach describes children's development in terms of supposed deficits in which children progress from 'primitive' earlier stages to 'superior' ones, until they arrive at an endpoint of 'visual realism'.
The author explains different models of development in visual expression. Instead of measuring children's efforts against an adult paradigm, the new models identify the modes of representation used by children as consequences of children's own intentions, motivations, and priorities.
Series Preface | ||
Preface | ||
Acknowledgements | ||
Introduction | 1 | |
1 | Painting in Action | 9 |
2 | Actions, Skills and Meaning | 37 |
3 | The Beginning of Painting and Drawing | 51 |
4 | Movement into Shape | 61 |
5 | Seeing and Knowing | 91 |
6 | Space and Time | 111 |
7 | The Origin of Literacy: Young Children Learn to Read | 142 |
8 | Children Begin to Show Depth in their Drawings | 155 |
9 | Why Do Many Children Give Up Drawing and Painting? What Can We Do to Help? | 195 |
References | 213 | |
Index | 220 |