Cultural perspectives on children’s tadpole drawings: at the interface between representation and production
This study investigated tadpole self-drawings from 183 three-to-six years old children living in seven cultural groups, representing three ecosocial contexts. Based on assumed general production principles, the influence of cultural norms and values upon specific characteristics of the tadpole drawi...
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| author | Ariane eGernhardt Hartmut eRuebeling Heidi eKeller |
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| description | This study investigated tadpole self-drawings from 183 three-to-six years old children living in seven cultural groups, representing three ecosocial contexts. Based on assumed general production principles, the influence of cultural norms and values upon specific characteristics of the tadpole drawings was examined. The results demonstrated that children from all cultural groups realized the body-proportion effect in the self-drawings, indicating universal production principles. However, children differed in single drawing characteristics, depending on the specific ecosocial context. Children from Western and non-Western urban middle-class contexts drew themselves rather tall, with many facial features, and preferred smiling facial expressions, while children from rural traditional contexts depicted themselves significantly smaller, with less facial details, and neutral facial expressions. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-64f8bed258df416589de511c802d12312022-12-22T03:30:52ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychology1664-10782015-06-01610.3389/fpsyg.2015.00812135242Cultural perspectives on children’s tadpole drawings: at the interface between representation and productionAriane eGernhardt0Hartmut eRuebeling1Heidi eKeller2University of OsnabrueckUniversity of OsnabrueckUniversity of OsnabrueckThis study investigated tadpole self-drawings from 183 three-to-six years old children living in seven cultural groups, representing three ecosocial contexts. Based on assumed general production principles, the influence of cultural norms and values upon specific characteristics of the tadpole drawings was examined. The results demonstrated that children from all cultural groups realized the body-proportion effect in the self-drawings, indicating universal production principles. However, children differed in single drawing characteristics, depending on the specific ecosocial context. Children from Western and non-Western urban middle-class contexts drew themselves rather tall, with many facial features, and preferred smiling facial expressions, while children from rural traditional contexts depicted themselves significantly smaller, with less facial details, and neutral facial expressions.http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00812/fulldrawing developmentpreschool ageArtworkcultural influenceTadpole drawingsself-drawings |
| spellingShingle | Ariane eGernhardt Hartmut eRuebeling Heidi eKeller Cultural perspectives on children’s tadpole drawings: at the interface between representation and production Frontiers in Psychology drawing development preschool age Artwork cultural influence Tadpole drawings self-drawings |
| title | Cultural perspectives on children’s tadpole drawings: at the interface between representation and production |
| title_full | Cultural perspectives on children’s tadpole drawings: at the interface between representation and production |
| title_fullStr | Cultural perspectives on children’s tadpole drawings: at the interface between representation and production |
| title_full_unstemmed | Cultural perspectives on children’s tadpole drawings: at the interface between representation and production |
| title_short | Cultural perspectives on children’s tadpole drawings: at the interface between representation and production |
| title_sort | cultural perspectives on children s tadpole drawings at the interface between representation and production |
| topic | drawing development preschool age Artwork cultural influence Tadpole drawings self-drawings |
| url | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00812/full |
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