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Making Sense of Children's Drawings - Hardcover

Willats, John

 
9780805845372: Making Sense of Children's Drawings
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0805845372 ISBN 13: 9780805845372
Publisher: Psychology Press, 2005

Synopsis

The message of this book is a simple one: children learn to draw by acquiring increasingly complex and effective drawing rules. In this regard, learning to draw is like learning a language, and as with language children use these rules creatively, making infinite use of finite means. Learning to draw is thus, like learning a language, one of the major achievements of the human mind.


Theories of perception developed in the second half of the 20th century enable us to construct a new theory of children's drawings that can account for their many strange features. Earlier accounts contained valuable insights, but recent advances in the fields of language, vision, philosophy, and artificial intelligence now make it possible to resolve the many contradictions and confusions inherent in these early writings.


John Willats has written a book that is accessible to psychologists, artists, primary and junior schoolteachers, and parents of both gifted and normal children.

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John Willats

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Publisher
Psychology Press
Publication date
2005
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0805845372
ISBN 13 
9780805845372
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
274