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Gender Differences in Young Children's Artwork
Author(s) -
Kawecki Ireneusz
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
british educational research journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.171
H-Index - 89
eISSN - 1469-3518
pISSN - 0141-1926
DOI - 10.1080/0141192940200409
Subject(s) - symbolic interactionism , psychology , interactionism , composition (language) , social psychology , developmental psychology , sociology , social science , linguistics , philosophy
On the basis of theoretical concepts of symbolic interactionism, researchers endeavoured to capture possible differences in the way children perceive and construe the image of their surroundings, resulting from socially conditioned patterns of behaviour but determined by the individual's gender. For this purpose reference was made to children's artwork in order to locate meaningful differences, as much in content as in composition, which would reflect approaches determined by the artist's gender. The results are presented in this paper.