Children's Understanding and Production of Pictures, Drawings, and Art

1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-88937-350-1
Verlag: Hogrefe Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 340 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 566 g

This book presents an innovative approach to the psychological study of children’s pictures, drawings, and art. With contributions from leading experts in the field, it compiles all the relevant theory and research on children’s developing conceptions of pictures, drawings, and art. It is the first book to focus explicitly on children’s knowledge and judgment of pictorial representations, including the understanding of their role as artist and viewer.

Zielgruppe

Researchers and students of cognitive and perceptual development, esthetics and culture, as well as art and media studies.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Milbrath, Constance

Trautner, Hanns Martin

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Sozialpsychologie Kulturpsychologie, Ethnopsychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Entwicklungspsychologie Kinder- und Jugendpsychologie

Über Autor(innen)

Constance Milbrath, PhD is a Senior Researcher at the Human Early Learning
Partnership in the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of British
Columbia, Canada. She is author of Patterns of artistic development: Comparative
studies of talent (CUP, 1998) and a co-editor of Biology and knowledge revisited: From
neurogenesis to psychogenesis (LEA, 2005). She has published widely in the fields of
developmental and clinical psychology.

Hanns M. Trautner, PhD is Professor and Head of the Department of Developmental
and Educational Psychology at the University of Wuppertal, Germany. He is author and
editor of introductory and advanced textbooks on developmental psychology and coeditor
of The developmental social psychology of gender (LEA, 2000). He has published
widely on issues of gender development and cognitive foundations of child and
adolescent development.