Visualisation of Animals by Children: How Do They See Birds?

dc.creator	Sue Dale Tunnicliffe
dc.date	2011-01-01T00:00:00Z
dc.date.accessioned	2015-07-20T22:30:47Z
dc.date.available	2015-07-20T22:30:47Z
dc.identifier	1855-9719
dc.identifier	2232-2647
dc.identifier	https://doaj.org/article/ad8ea4e8365a4f6b80bb6ab05ed94b5f
dc.identifier.uri	http://evidence.thinkportal.org/handle/123456789/22339
dc.description	Children learn to recognise animals from their earliest years through actual sightings in their own observations of their world, but also through second-hand representations in various forms of media. Young learners begin with a template specimen to which they refer when they see another animal that resembles it, naming the animal accordingly. Gradually, they learn to distinguish members of the subordinate category – bird in the case of the present paper – into subcategories. Accessing their mental model through drawings is one means of discerning their interpretation of both phyla and species. If children of increasing ages are studied, a rationale for the understanding of a such concepts may be forthcoming. The present study investigated children from 6 years to 14 years though interviews, as well as through the drawings on which the paper focuses. As children mature, they observe more and more details about the birds that they see, thus increasing their knowledge not from school but from their own observations outside school.
dc.language	English
dc.language	Slovene
dc.publisher	University of Ljubljana
dc.relation	http://www.cepsj.si/pdfs/cepsj_1_4/cepsj_1_4_pp063-080_tunnicliffe.pdf
dc.relation	https://doaj.org/toc/1855-9719
dc.relation	https://doaj.org/toc/2232-2647
dc.rights	CC BY
dc.source	CEPS Journal : Center for Educational Policy Studies Journal, Vol 1, Iss 4, Pp 63-80 (2011)
dc.subject	Children’s drawings
dc.subject	Children’s understanding of birds
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.title	Visualisation of Animals by Children: How Do They See Birds?
dc.type	article