In this study, two samples of 4-year-old Chinese children were given two drawing tasks, one very familiar task and one novel and challenging task. The first sample was drawn from a nursery that taught art in a similar way to that widely used in the West, with an emphasis on individual expression. The second sample was from a nursery where drawing…

The theme of the 38th meeting of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education (PME 38) and the 36th meeting of the North American Chapter of the Psychology of Mathematics Education (PME-NA 36) was "Mathematics Education at the Edge." Academically, the theme provides opportunities to highlight and examine…

The quality of representations of nine spatial arrays varying in transparency and occlusion was observed in order to test the generalization that younger children are concerned about the ambiguity of their representations and to observe the influence of a change in the medium used to create the representations. Children 5, 7, and 9 years old…

A series of studies on tangible pictures and their application to blind persons are reviewed and possible explanations for the suggestion of depth offered by outline drawings are discussed. Findings from ancient cave and rock art, together with drawings made by blind children and adults suggest that outline drawings contain some elements that are…

Author discussed an opportunity for an art lesson on figure drawing. (Author/RK)

A writing instructor discussed the processes of thought that accompany students learning to write. (RK)

It has been suggested that drawings are symbolic constructions which follow certain rules. In order to investigate one aspect of representational rule use in drawing, (an object's orientation), 36 kindergarten, second, and fourth grade children were asked to draw familiar objects placed in several orientations or an orientation of their choice.…

Some characteristics of the human figure drawings of 93 Vietnamese children were investigated. Drawings were scored according to the Goodenough method. Mental age scores were high in relation to chronological age and this result is explained in terms of cultural emphasis on the value of copying well. (SE)

Styles of representing regular three-dimensional figures were studied in a sample of 80 Jamaican boys and girls from 7 to 15 years old. (BD)

Examined the likelihood of changes in various parts of children's drawings of people when the children were asked to represent action. (Author/JMB)

Serendipity is the gift of finding valuable or agreeable things not sought for and a doodle is an aimless, unconscious, automatic drawing. Here they are combined in order to create imaginative designs. Briefly discusses five principles of design. (Author/RK)

Investigated young children's ability to represent three-dimensionality in their drawings. Preschool, kindergarten and first grade children and adults were asked to draw a cube, a house, and a ball presented in a plain form, a form differentially decorated on each side, and in both 2- and 3-dimensional forms. (JMB)

In an investigation of young children's use of context cues in reproducing drawings and geometric shapes, 36 preschool children drew a series of horizontal, vertical, and oblique lines from immediate memory on square backgrounds. (BRT)

Two experiments investigated children's tendencies to draw what they know rather than what they see. The first experiment looked at the way children, aged five to nine, and adults represent an object occluded by another object. Most subjects drew only what they could see. The second experiment investigated subjects' interpretation of pictures…