When Pictures Aren't Pretty: Deconstructing Punitive Literacy Practices

Autor/inn/en	Fisher, Teresa R.; Albers, Peggy; Frederick, Temmy G.
Titel	When Pictures Aren't Pretty: Deconstructing Punitive Literacy Practices
Quelle	In: Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 14 (2014) 3, S.291-318 (28 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1468-7984
DOI	10.1177/1468798413485267
Schlagwörter	Teaching Methods; Literacy Education; Young Children; Freehand Drawing; Student Behavior; Behavior Problems; Classroom Techniques; Discipline; Punishment; Discourse Analysis; Color; Geometric Concepts; Personal Narratives; Learning Modalities; Beginning Writing; Interaction; Classroom Environment; Student Attitudes; Planning; Grade 1; Elementary School Students; Visual Stimuli; Self Concept + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Frühe Kindheit; Drawing; Zeichnen; Student behaviour; Schülerverhalten; Klassenführung; Disziplin; Bestrafung; Diskursanalyse; Colour; Farbbezeichnung; Farbe; Elementare Geometrie; Erlebniserzählung; Lernumgebung; Erstschreibunterricht; Interaktion; Klassenklima; Unterrichtsklima; Ablaufplanung; Planungsprozess; School year 01; 1. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 01; Selbstkonzept
Abstract	Young children frequently tell visual stories, drawing pictures to record and share their thoughts, feelings and understanding. How and what young children describe through art, especially when written language is not an option, is the focus of this interpretive analysis. A series of pictures by John, a 6-year-old boy, were drawn across the academic year at challenging moments when he exhibited distressing and/or alienating behaviour. We studied John's drawings of his misbehaviour, as depicted in these action plans, over the course of 8 months, how they appeared and evolved over the year, and what we learned by doing a close analysis of these visual texts. Specifically, as teacher educators thinking back upon our own experiences as novice teachers, we wanted to know what kinds of practices, such as this discipline action plan, implemented in schools and in our classrooms use literacy practices in a punitive way? Drawing from visual discourse analysis which includes visual design, we attended to how John used colours, the intensity with which they were applied; how he used shape and line (curved, sharp), the size and volume of objects, the relationship among and between objects in the pictures, and the discourses around which he identified. We also looked across these pictures to see how certain objects (teacher, himself, other students) shifted and were retranslated across images and time, and how, collectively, these pictures wrote an ongoing narrative, one that tells a not-so-pretty story of John's representation of self in these moments. This analysis forces us to problematize the use of multi-modal literacy practices as a punitive endeavour. Encouraging teachers to evaluate critically what "behaviour interventions" actually do to and for students can provide a powerful platform for meaningful change. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10