What is it about?
This paper presents the work done at Athens University between undergraduate students of Preschool Education and young children. They drew together on the same piece of paper resulting in a joint work. The method used by the students was to gradually introduce increasingly more demanding drawing solutions and stereotypes enabling the children to develop their drawing skills and repertoire of stereotypes. The theoretical background of this pedagogical practice is L.Vygotsky's notion of proximal development. According to this, it is possible and advisable to enable children to pass from that which they can achieve/draw alone to that which they can accomplish/draw with adult assistance.
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Why is it important?
This practice answers to a long standing belief that adults are not allowed to interfere with the artistic creations of children because in this way they will hinder or tarnish their spontaneous innate creativity. this notion of "free expression" in art education has robed instructors of an active role in teaching drawing and/or art. it also
Perspectives
The collaborative drawing method is an ongoing research at Athens University Department of Early Childhood Education. Findings indicate that the method has the potential to alter the drawing achievements of a child collaborating with an adult in a one-to-one basis, but in the context of the classroom as well.
ourania Kouvou
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This page is a summary of: Drawing with Children: An Experiment in Assisted Creativity, International Journal of Art & Design Education, March 2016, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/jade.12056.
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