"My brother tells, I make scribbles when I draw." The 'scribbles' otherwise: developing a project with toddlers
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Dec 17, 2019
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drawing activity ‘scribbles’ project early childhood education
Abstract
“Viewing ‘scribbles’ otherwise” is a project developed at the Children Center of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, in a classroom for young children (2.5-3 years) during the school year 2017-2018. In the present study, we firstly present the children’ activities that motivated the initiation of this extended investigation, while we describe in detail the three project phases that children carried out. This learning experience was developed as part of a professional development program focused on the role of drawing activity as a learning tool. However, it emerged from the children's special focus on their 'scribbles', while the strong cooperation between the classroom’s teacher and the facilitator (i.e. the educator who organised the PD program) was critical for its implementation. The examples presented in this article illustrate how the children themselves guided the evolution of the inquiry and gradually transformed their attitude towards their 'scribbles'.
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Τσακιρπάλογλου Π., & Παπανδρέου Μ. (2019). "My brother tells, I make scribbles when I draw." The ’scribbles’ otherwise: developing a project with toddlers. Dialogoi! Theory and Praxis in Education, 5, 210–226. https://doi.org/10.12681/dial.22000
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- Presentations of Innovative Programs
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