scholarly journals Replicating a study about children’s drawings concerning radiation

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 71 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Plotz ◽  
F. Hollenthoner
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Cell Phones ◽  
Children's Drawings ◽  
Nuclear Disaster ◽  
Younger Age ◽  
Children’S Drawings ◽  
The Media ◽  
Computer Monitors ◽  
Fukushima Nuclear Disaster ◽  
Children’S Conceptions

<p class="Textoindependiente21">Radiation surrounds us in various forms and plays a huge role in our everyday life. However, little is known about student and children’s conceptions of this topic. This study is part continuation part replication of the studies carried out by Neumann and Hopf (2013). The method employed in both studies was identical. 459 students drew pictures associated with the concept “radiation” under observation. The resulting motives were subsequently categorized and compared. In this study the children barely associate the concept of “radiation” with the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster. Moreover, a number of differences could be realized when compared to the reference study. For instance, significantly more students drew cell phones and computer monitors in the current study. Additionally, a greater number of drawings related to radioactivity could be observed. Overall, the findings of this work indicate that not only are students exposed to the media at a much younger age, but also more frequently. This leads to the conclusion that more and more children build their own understanding of a particular subject, which could potentially result in misconceptions.</p>

scholarly journals Draw-A-Science-Comic: Alternative prompts and the presence of danger

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jaakko Lamminpää ◽  
Veli-Matti Vesterinen
Keyword(s):  
Secondary Education ◽  
Primary School ◽  
Detailed Analysis ◽  
Primary Education ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Children's Drawings ◽  
Children’S Drawings ◽  
Children’S Conceptions ◽  
Two Age Groups

The early years of primary school are important in shaping how children see scientists and science, but researching younger children is known to be difficult. The Draw-A-Scientist Test (DAST), in which students are asked to draw a scientist, has been one of the most popular ways to chart children’s conceptions of scientists and science. However, DAST tends to focus mainly on children’s conceptions about the appearance of scientists. To focus more on children’s conceptions of scientific activities as well as the emotions and attitudes associated with science, the Draw-A-Science-Comic test (DASC) was recently introduced. This study compares three alternative DASC prompts for two age groups of respondents (8- to 10-year-olds and 10- to 13-year-olds). The prompts asking students to draw a comic or a set of pictures produced significantly more sequential storytelling and depictions of science related emotions and attitudes than the prompt asking students to depict a story. The depictions of elements of danger, such as accidents and hazards in the laboratory, were also frequent in drawings with sequential storytelling. A more detailed analysis of the depictions showed that the frequency of elements of danger was closely associated with depictions of activity especially in the field of chemistry. For example, several comics included failed chemical experiments leading to explosions. Although depictions of danger are sometimes interpreted as a negative conception, in the children’s drawings the explosions and overflowing flasks were often seen also as a source of excitement and joy. Based on the result of this study, the use of DASC seems a suitable way for charting children’s conceptions of scientific activities as well as the emotions and attitudes associated with science from the early years of primary education until the beginning of secondary education.

Psychiatrists in their eyes: Children's drawings of what a psychiatrist looks like

2012 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sami Omer ◽  
Niamh O'Connor ◽  
Gavin Sweeney ◽  
Geraldine McCarthy
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Young People ◽  
School Children ◽  
Strong Influence ◽  
Children's Drawings ◽  
Qualitative Design ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Children’S Drawings ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Coordinator

AbstractDrawings can be used as an important tool to measure children's perception and emotions. Using a qualitative design, we asked a group of 24 school children (10 boys and 14 girls) aged 11-12 to draw their impressions of psychiatrists. In the majority of drawings, psychiatrists were portrayed as a friendly or kind figure. The art work was analysed by the coordinator of the Arts Initiative in Mental Health, Niamh O'Connor. Psychiatrists were portrayed positively by this group of young people. This reflects a strong influence of the media on children's perception.

Growing old with media technology and the material experience of ageing

2017 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 305-316 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cecilie Givskov
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Older Women ◽  
Cell Phones ◽  
Natural Ageing ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Media Technology ◽  
The Media ◽  
Ageing Body ◽  
Cultural Constructions ◽  
Material Ageing

During the 20th and 21st century, media such as radio, telephone, television, computers and cell phones moved into everyday life as taken-for-granted elements. Based on observations and life-history interviews with 22 older women, this article discusses how media technology is materially involved in the experience of growing old. The analysis reveals two aspects of this. First, different technology stands out from its background presence as problematic because the media no longer enable the experiences they used to. Second, disconnects with and through media technology direct attention towards the declining body. The participants embody ‘old age’ by linking their experience with media to two cultural constructions of material ageing: generation and natural ageing. I argue that inasmuch as everyday life has become mediatized, the experience of growing old also takes place with and through media technology. This article forms part of ‘Media and the Ageing Body’ Special Issue.

scholarly journals Pictorial Depth Cues in Young Children’s Drawings of Layouts and Objects

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Théo Morfoisse ◽  
Todd Matthew Gureckis ◽  
Moira Rose Dillon
Keyword(s):  
Object Recognition ◽  
Young Children ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Technological Innovations ◽  
Children's Drawings ◽  
Cognitive Capacities ◽  
Depth Cues ◽  
Pictorial Depth ◽  
Children’S Drawings

Humans have been faced with the challenges of pictorial production since at least the Paleolithic. Curiously, while the capacity to navigate layouts and recognize objects in everyday life comes almost effortlessly, inherited from our evolutionary past, the capacity to draw layouts and objects is more effortful, often needing time to improve over the course of an individual’s development and with the technological innovations acquired through culture. The present study examines whether young children might nevertheless rely on phylogenetically ancient spatial capacities for navigation and object recognition when creating uniquely human pictorial art. We apply a novel digital coding technique to a publicly available dataset of young children’s drawings of layouts and objects to explore children’s use of classic pictorial depth cues including size, position, and overlap. To convey pictorial depth, children appear to adopt several cues, without a preference among them, younger than had been suggested by previous studies that used other, less rich, analytic techniques. Moreover, children use more cues to pictorial depth in drawings of layouts versus objects. Children’s creation of uniquely human pictorial symbols may thus reflect their heightened use of depth for navigating layouts compared to recognizing objects, both cognitive capacities that humans share with other animals.

scholarly journals REFLECTIONS OF THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC ON CHILDREN'S DRAWINGS

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (88) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Fifth Grade ◽  
Study Group ◽  
Children's Drawings ◽  
Student Groups ◽  
Early Stages ◽  
Grade Levels ◽  
Content Analysis Method ◽  
Children’S Drawings ◽  
The Media ◽  
5Th Grade

In this study; it is aimed to determine the perceptions and approaches of the 4th and 5th grade students regarding the COVID-19 pandemic. The phenomenology study, which is one of the qualitative research designs, was planned as the most appropriate method for the research. The study group of the research consisted of a total of 100 students studying at the 4th and 5th-grade levels in the city center of Van in the fall semester of the 2020-2021 academic year. Fifty of the students are in the fourth grade and 50 are in the fifth grade. In order to determine the reflections of the COVID-19 pandemic on children's drawings, drawings of students and their own explanations of drawings were evaluated as research data. Data were collected from the students in the study group by complying with the pandemic conditions. In this process, students were asked to make a drawing explaining their experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic. The obtained qualitative data (drawings) were analyzed by the content analysis method. As a result of the research, it has been observed that the news in the media has its counterparts in the world of children, and that this news have effects on the way the pandemic is reflected on the pictures. It was observed that there were descriptions of masks and distance in the paintings of both student groups. It has been observed that the pandemic, which children encounter in the early stages of their relationship with the environment, is transferred to the pictures as a reflection of fear, and expressed as the fear of getting sick and infecting their environment. It has been determined that children have learned the "14 rules" created in the early stages of the pandemic. Keywords: COVID-19 Pandemic, children’s drawings, schematic stage children’s drawings, dawning realism children’s drawings

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