Children and Pictures

Richard P. Jolley is Senior Lecturer in the Psychology department at Staffordshire University, UK. In the 13 years since completing his PhD in children's making and understanding of expressive pictures he has broadened his research interests in the topic of "children and pictures," taking a variety of perspectives including developmental, cognitive, clinical, educational, aesthetic, and cross-cultural.

"Children's drawing is a fascinating topic with a wide-ranging appeal,  and this well-written and well-informed book will be very useful to students and researchers of child development and art education, as well as being accessible to the general reader.  In ten clearly laid out chapters Richard Jolley gives an up-to-date overview of some of the debates in the field, an overview amply supported by research findings.  In a further and final chapter he suggests “future directions” which, I'm sure, will provide food for thought for many of the up-and-coming generation of researchers."–Dr Maureen Cox, Emeritus Reader, Department of Psychology, University of York "A long time in the making, this book was well worth waiting for. It is unusual in the range of topics it covers and the importance it accords to the field.  It can serve both as an introduction for new readers and as a resource for established researchers, which is extraordinarily hard to bring off.  This is because the author is clearly conducting a dialogue with the reader throughout, in a gracefully styled stream of writing."–Norman Freeman, Emeritus Professor and Senior Research Fellow, Cognitive Development, University of Bristol"Psychologist Richard Jolley takes the reader on a fascinating journey, using children’s drawings and their understanding of pictures as a way to understand children’s minds. This book will enlighten researchers, clinicians, educators, and parents – anyone who wants to understand why children draw in the sometimes odd, almost always charming, way that they do."–Ellen Winner, Professor of Psychology, Boston College, and Senior Research Associate, Project Zero, Harvard University

• Acknowledgments viCredits viiiIntroduction 11 The Development of Representational Drawing 62 The Development of Expressive Drawing 363 Drawings from Children in Special Populations 674 Production and Comprehension of Representational Drawing 955 Children’s Understanding of the Dual Nature of Pictures 1276 Drawings as Measures of Internal Representations 1537 Drawings as Assessment Tools: Intelligence, Personality and Emotionality 1808 Drawing as Memory Aids 2169 Cultural Influences on Children’s Drawings 24710 The Education of Drawing 27211 Future Directions 314Further Reading 330References 331Author Index 362Subject Index 371Plates appear between pages 184 and 185