A Cross-Cultural Study of Young Children's Performance on Drawing and Handwriting Tasks.

Autor/inn/en	Huntsinger, Carol S.; und weitere
Titel	A Cross-Cultural Study of Young Children's Performance on Drawing and Handwriting Tasks.
Quelle	(1994), (24 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Beigaben	Tabellen
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Tagungsbericht; Chinese Americans; Comparative Analysis; Creativity; Cross Cultural Studies; Early Childhood Education; Freehand Drawing; Handwriting; Kindergarten Children; Parent Attitudes; Parent Influence; Preschool Children; Psychomotor Skills; Spatial Ability; Visual Discrimination; Whites + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Asian immigrant; Chinese; United States; Asiatischer Einwanderer; Chinesen; USA; Kreativität; Cultural comparison; Kulturvergleich; Early childhood; Education; Frühkindliche Bildung; Frühpädagogik; Drawing; Zeichnen; Handschrift; Elternverhalten; Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Psychomotorische Aktivität; Räumliches Vorstellungsvermögen; White; Weißer
Abstract	A study sought to determine whether differences in drawing performance, creativity, and the related skills of visual discrimination, fine muscle coordination, and spatial ability exist between second-generation Chinese-American and Caucasian-American young children. It also sought to determine which parental beliefs and practices are associated with the performance difference, if one exists. A total of 40 Chinese-American preschoolers and kindergartners and 40 Caucasian-American preschoolers and kindergartners were given the Test of Early Mathematics Ability-2 and the Draw-A-Person Test, along with visual discrimination, spatial relations and name writing tasks. Parents were interviewed and given a questionnaire on demographic information and educational attitudes. The results indicated that Chinese-American young children were more advanced in their drawing and handwriting than were Caucasian-American children. It was also found that Chinese-American parents set aside more time each day for the child to focus on fine muscle activities than did Caucasian-American parents. (MDM)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2004/1/01