What is it about?
The book is based on the findings of a team of researchers from eleven countries who collected students’ drawings (aged 15-18 years old). The drawings not only provide a description of the life-style, surroundings and local culture of their author but also can tell us what students think about life and show their visions of the world. The drawings from students in schools of Australia, Brazil, Greece,Hong Kong, Hungary, Israel, Japan, Spain, Mozambique, Minnesota/USA and Portugal are described by each researcher of the study in the middle chapters. Some of the chapters are more visual, others more textual, each one exploring the drawings in their way, varying from visual reports to research reports. The book ends up with an attempt of interpretation of drawings using methods of visual data analysis.
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Why is it important?
The book is useful for educators, teachers; curriculum developers and researchers in education. In the drawings of the boys and girls there are terrible critics against violence, against society in general and there are deep reflections about genetic manipulation and tender landscapes for the future. There is hope and anger independently of the country of origin.
Perspectives
I hope readers will enjoy this book, as I did organising it. The documentation compiled in the book, from so different countries, is valuable to understand youth representation in the beginning of the twenty one century. Each chapter offers an honest description of the drawings, contextualising and analysing the data in a very clear way.
Teresa Torres Pereira de Eça
Research Group in Arts, Community and Education, APECV, Portugal
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This page is a summary of: Young People's Visions of the World, March 2012, Bentham Science Publishers,
DOI: 10.2174/97816080503521100101.
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