Children Making Meaning - Exploring Drawings, Narratives, and Identities

This ground-breaking text highlights the value of drawing as a meaningful way for children to communicate, demonstrating how it is inextricably linked with children's everyday experiences, thinking processes, imagination, emotions, and learning.

List of contents

1. Young children's meaning-making
2. Interpreting children's drawings from a social semiotics perspective
3. Children drawing meanings
4. Researching children's drawings
5. Luke's story
6. Thea's story
7. Bertly's story
8. Form and content in children's drawings
9. Drawing identities
10. Love, power, good and evil
11. Drawing, talk, narrative, and collaboration
12. Children's funds of knowledge: Pedagogical considerations
13. Listening to children drawing

About the author

Josephine Deguara is Senior Lecturer in Early Childhood and Primary Education at the University of Malta, Malta.
Cathy Nutbrown is Professor of Education at The University of Sheffield, UK.

Summary

This ground-breaking text highlights the value of drawing as a meaningful way for children to communicate, demonstrating how it is inextricably linked with children’s everyday experiences, thinking processes, imagination, emotions, and learning.

Product details

• Authors: Josephine Deguara, Josephine Nutbrown Deguara, Cathy Nutbrown, Nutbrown Cathy
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2024
• EAN: 9781032548043
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3254804-3
• No. of pages: 248
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > School education, didactics, methodology; EDUCATION / Professional Development, EDUCATION / Learning Styles, Child, developmental and lifespan psychology, Teaching skills and techniques, Teaching skills & techniques, Pre-school & kindergarten, Pre-school and kindergarten, EDUCATION / Schools / Levels / Elementary