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This book investigates children's preferred strategies forlearning to draw. Twenty-six Grade 6 students engaged in threedifferent drawing tasks (observation, feeling, and cartoon), andgenerated their favoured strategies for improving their drawingskills. Students then ranked their top three strategies for eachdrawing task. In addition, six students were interviewed abouttheir drawing experiences and development, both inside and outsideof school. Results indicated that the participants desired toimprove their drawing skills through a variety of strategies thatreflected their outside of school practices such as copying,tracing, getting ideas from others, drawing with others, andwatching TV to get ideas.Help provided by the teacher and throughinteractions with others were also highly favored. The interviewresults further outlined participants' desires to improve, theirperceptions of a lack of help for drawing at school, and theimportance of significant others in their drawing development.Recommendations are suggested for classroom teachers to incorporatelearners' ways of knowing, thinking, and representing in arteducation.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Education

• Full title: Children's Perspectives on Drawing
• Subtitle: Teaching and Learning to Draw In and Outside ofElementary School
• Author: Nadine M. Kalin
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 128
• EAN: 9783639071832
• ISBN: 3639071832
• ID: 06816468
• Publisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.
• Weight: 181 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 7 mm
• Date of publishing: 12. August 2008

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