A Note on Cross-Cultural Preferences: Fruit-Tree Preferences in Children's Drawings

1967 ◽  
Vol 65 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leonore Loeb Adler
Keyword(s):  
Fruit Tree ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Children's Drawings ◽  
Cultural Preferences ◽  
Children’S Drawings

Acquiring Cultural Forms: Cognitive Aspects of Socialization Illustrated by Children's Drawings and Judgments of Drawings

1986 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 485-505 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacqueline J. Goodnow ◽  
Paula Wilkins ◽  
Leslie Dawes
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Context ◽  
Developmental Change ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Older Children ◽  
Children's Drawings ◽  
Underlying Assumption ◽  
Children’S Drawings ◽  
Cultural Comparisons ◽  
Cultural Forms ◽  
Children’S Exposure

To explore how children come to adopt cultural forms of representation, three studies are presented. Study 1 asks about children's ability to discriminate between 'younger' and 'older' pieces of work, with 'younger and 'older' distinguished on the basis of Developmental Drawing Status (Harris 1963). Study 2 asks about children's preferences and the extent to which they match those of teachers. Study 3 asks about the differences between drawings children produce for themselves and those they produce when asked by an adult for a 'good' drawing. The underlying assumption is that one condition influencing developmental change is children's exposure to work by adults or by older children. The results point to ways of combining cross-cultural comparisons of performances with monocultural work on processes underlying children's productions. They also raise questions about patterns of exposure in any cultural context and about factors involved in the development of discriminations, preferences, and audience expectations.

Grapheme Development in Handicapped Children's Drawings

1985 ◽  
Vol 60 (1) ◽  
pp. 231-238
Author(s):  
Martin Krampen
Keyword(s):  
Body Schema ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Children's Drawings ◽  
Handicapped Children ◽  
The Third ◽  
Cross Cultural Study ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Children’S Drawings ◽  
German Children ◽  
Physically Handicapped

According to F. Olivier children's drawings are composed of basic shapes called graphemes. Three sets of these graphemes develop between the ages of 3 and 5 yr. A cross-cultural study had shown no difference in grapheme development between Turkish and German children. When the drawings of physically handicapped children were compared with those of normally developing children, a significant difference was found in the third step of grapheme development, the production of symmetrical graphemes. Physically handicapped children are retarded by comparison with normally developing ones in rendering graphemes symmetrical. The reason for this might by asymmetry in their body schema.

Human Figure Drawings as Indicators of Value Development among Thai Children

1974 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 124-130 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harry W. Gardiner
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
Social Roles ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Facial Features ◽  
Children's Drawings ◽  
Children’S Drawings ◽  
Human Figure ◽  
General Preference ◽  
Human Figure Drawings ◽  
Figure Drawings

Use of children's drawings as an approach to the study of social and cultural values of national groups is described. Support for the “value hypothesis” that children tend to draw the kind of person they admire or one who is favorably viewed by society is provided through a study of 500 drawings by eight- to thirteen-year-old boys and girls in Thailand. Findings indicate general preference for modern dress, oriental facial features, and smiling faces. Oriental features and traditional dress occur most often among drawings of women by boys, while girls stress Caucasian features in their drawings of men. Both sexes ascribe religious content more often to drawings of women and represent more men in diversified social roles. Areas of possible future cross-cultural collaboration are suggested and discussed.

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