Diversifying discourse: the influence of visual culture on Children's parception and creation of art
2011
Abstract
Influences from popular visual culture in western-developed countries, impacts the perception and creation of art in school-age children in novel ways. Bridging research in media and culture studies, cognitive science, and psychology with their own research, the authors examine how the primary influence of visual culture demands a new interpretation of children's art beyond the material dimension of markmaking analysis.
Using examples from two case studies with infants and pre-school students in the Czech Republic, the authors present their case for changing instructional practice and design in art education for revealing one's own (multi) cultural experiences within individualized contexts of perception.