10.5937/specedreh13-6166 = Transparency and mixed viewpoints in drawings of preschool and early school age children

Abstract

The main objective of this research is to determine developmental specifics of transparency and mixed viewpoints in drawings of preschool and younger school age children. The sample consists of 90 typical developed children, aged between 6 to 9. The sample encompasses 47 (52,2%) girls and 43 (47,8%) boys from preschool and elementary school in Pirot and Belgrade. The theoretical basis of this study is Liquet's theory of children's drawings development, with emphasis on the characteristics that are manifested in the stage of intellectual realism: transparency and mixed viewpoints. These characteristics are evaluated using three types of drawings: a man in the boat, a man on the horse and a man on the chair. The presence of transparency (AS=5,77) in children's drawing is more frequent compared to presence of mixed viewpoints (AS=6,48). The analysis of individual drawings showed that the largest presence of transparency and mixed viewpoints is on drawing of a man on the horse, then on a man in the chair, and the smallest on drawing of man in the boat. Girls made significantly fewer drawings where we can observe a transparent view of partial occlusion scene compared to boys (p=0.010). There is a statistically significant developmental trend of progress with participants age increasing in frequency of displaying transparency (p=0.000) and mixed viewpoints (p=0.000). We also determinate statistically significant high positive correlation of total scores on all applied tasks.