Thinking and Learning Through Drawing: In Primary Classrooms

✍ Scribed by Mrs Gill Hope

Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
Year: 2008
Tongue: English
Leaves: 187
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

With an extensive background in teaching and researching children’s uses of drawing, Gill Hope describes the ways in which multiple forms of drawing are used by elementary school children. She explains why it should be actively promoted as a means of supporting thinking and learning across a wide range of subject areas, and provides practical support for teachers.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 4
Introduction Drawing to think......Page 6
Dimension 1 Drawing to play......Page 22
Dimension 2 Drawing to mean......Page 48
Dimension 3 Drawing to feel......Page 74
Dimension 4 Drawing to see......Page 98
Dimension 5 Drawing to know......Page 125
Dimension 6 Drawing to design......Page 149
Finale Drawing to conclusions......Page 173
Bibliography......Page 181
Index......Page 186

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