Drawing and looking : theoretical approaches to pictorial representation in children /
Contributor(s): Lange-Küttner, Christiane
| Thomas, Glyn V
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Series: The developing body and mind.Publisher: New York : Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1995, (2002)Description: xii, 195 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0745015719 (pbk.); 9780745015712:; 0133428826.Subject(s): Children's drawings -- Psychological aspects | Child development | Children -- Psychological aspectsDDC classification: 155.4 Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 173-187) and indexes.
Introduction / Christiane Lange-Kuttner and Glyn V. Thomas -- The myth of the sensory core : the traditional versus the ecological approach to children's drawings / Alan Costall -- An information-processing approach to drawing development / John Willats -- Observational, experimental and neuropsychological studies of drawing / Peter van Sommers -- From line to outline / JOhn M. Kennedy, Andrea Nicholls and Mary Desrochers -- The transformation of figurative thought : implications of Piaget and Inhelder's developmental theory for children's drawings / Christiane Lange-Küttner amd Emiel Reith -- A neo-Piagetian approach to children's drawings / Sergio Morra -- The role of drawing strategies and skills / Glyn V. Thomas -- Children's understanding about pictures / Rebecca Nye, Glyn V. Thomas and Elizabeth Robinson -- The emergence of a framework theory of pictorial reasoning / Norman H. Freeman -- The psychological function of children's drawings : a Vygotskian perspective / Anna Stetsenko -- The contribution of social factors to the development of graphic competence / Christiane Lange-Küttner and Wolfgang Edelstein.
An account of recent theoretical developments in the psychology of children's drawings. It reports on developments such as neuropsychological and information processing models of drawing and picture perception, and provides links with research into the child's theory of mind.