Unidad 1 - Child development through art education

Some examples of approaches to child development thought art education are:

• Evolutionary, structural, psychomotor, physical maturity and semiotic.

• Evolutionary, structural, psychomotor, intellectual maturity and semiotic.

• Evolutionary, structural, psychomotor, intellectual maturity and language projective.

Jean Piaget was a developmental psychologist and philosopher who first…

• Developed the Structural method

• Developed the Stage Theory

• Gave the importance to children's drawings

The most important exponents of the Structural approach are Rudolf Arnheim and Rhoda Kellogg.

• False

• True

The psychomotor theory is based on the idea that children’s ……………… are spontaneous demonstrations linked to the child’s psychological development.

• Movements

• Scribbles

• Sounds

• Scribes

Through the Intellectual maturity theory, educators and psychologists investigated how children's graphic production...

• Expands in line with their intellectual development

• Progresses more slowly than the development of intelligence

The Visual Retention Test is also known as the Benton test

• True

• False

Between 18 months and 4 years the infant is generally in the

• Pre-Schematic Stage

• Visual Realism Stage

• Scribbling Stage

The Pre-Schematic Stage or Initial Figuration Stage corresponds to children of...

• 4, 5 and 6 years old.

• 1, 2 and 3 years old

• C. 3, 4, 5 and 6 years old

One of the features of the Schematic Stage is:

• No conscious prior plan as to how a finished work will be.

• Drawing by addition: the figure is the result of the sum of its parts.

• Before beginning a drawing, a child thinks about what they want to represent, and how they will achieve this.

• Subjective use of colour, without correspondence between colours in reality and those in the drawing.

At the age of three, the child's drawings clearly differentiate masculine and feminine.

• True

• False