Session Information
29 SES 10, Parallel Paper Session
Paper Session
Contribution
Painting constitutes a beloved activity for preschoolers. By considering this fact, present research focuses on the ability of Greek preschool education children to be self-expressed through spontaneous painting in a subject of their free choice revealing their emotions. So, in this creative way, children attain to express themselves improving their communication skills. Furthermore, children's paintings obviously show artistic development and expression. In educational and clinical settings, they can be vehicles for assessing a child's personality, intellectual development, communication skills, and emotional adjustment. Children's drawings can also aid in helping to diagnose learning disabilities. Law enforcement officers, social workers, and counselors often have children draw traumatic events, especially when they lack the communication skills to explain what they have witnessed or experienced. Children may also feel distanced from the traumatic event by drawing it and talking about what is happening in the picture, as if discussing a character in a book or on television. All of the above, are connected with cultivation of self-expression which means an inherent ability that exists in any human being in order to express its inner world (senses, feelings, interesting, wistfulness, cogitations, moods, etc.) in a unique and creative way aiming to its psychological discharging and to development its communicative skills. Although true self-expression comes from deep inside, like any other human inherent ability self-expression could be cultivated; more developed and finally is able to constitute an important structural element of child personality development. In this framework the research questions focus on possibilities of self-expression of preschool children by painting as a part from the development of their creative communication.
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