Journal article
Understanding children’s perspectives of classroom writing practices through drawings
Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, Vol.20(2), pp.177-193
2019
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Abstract
Examining how young children learn to write is increasingly important as global society moves further towards a knowledge economy, where the production of texts of various kinds is an increasingly ubiquitous practice in everyday life and work. While there has been recent policy and practice focus on children’s writing performance in standardised tests, in this article, the authors focus on what can be learned by listening to children’s voices as they are engaged in ‘draw and talk’ methodologies. While children’s drawings have a material reality, they are also representations of children’s perceptions of their experiences with learning to write. In this article, the authors explore the processes, practices and relationships involved in learning to write, depicted in children’s drawings when they are asked to draw themselves learning to write. The authors identify representations of writing, evident in the children’s drawings focusing the relational, the material and the spatial elements of writing.
Details
- Title
- Understanding children’s perspectives of classroom writing practices through drawings
- Creators
- Aspa Baroutsis - Queensland University of TechnologyLisa Kervin - University of WollongongAnnette Woods - Queensland University of TechnologyBarbara Comber - University of South Australia
- Publication Details
- Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, Vol.20(2), pp.177-193
- Publisher
- Sage Publications Ltd.
- Grant note
- The authors disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: The research reported in this article was supported by the Australian Research Council’s Learning to Write in the Early Years Study (DP150101240).
- Identifiers
- 991012993180702368
- Copyright
- © The Author(s) 2017
- Academic Unit
- Faculty of Education
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article