1st Edition
Children Making Meaning Exploring Drawings, Narratives, and Identities
266 Pages
161 Color Illustrations
by
Routledge
266 Pages
161 Color Illustrations
by
Routledge
266 Pages
161 Color Illustrations
by
Routledge
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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.
By exploring what intrigues and concerns children, Children Making Meaning: Exploring Drawings, Narratives, and Identities demonstrates how drawing... Read more
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
Biography
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.
