Cultural Differences in Chinese American and European American Children's Drawing Skills over Time

Autor/inn/en	Huntsinger, Carol S.; Jose, Paul E.; Krieg, Dana Balsink; Luo, Zupei
Titel	Cultural Differences in Chinese American and European American Children's Drawing Skills over Time
Quelle	In: Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 26 (2011) 1, S.134-145 (12 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0885-2006
DOI	10.1016/j.ecresq.2010.04.002
Schlagwörter	Creativity; Art Education; Young Children; Cultural Differences; Chinese Americans; Whites; Freehand Drawing; Longitudinal Studies; Correlation; Prediction; Fathers; Parent Attitudes; Scores; Teaching Methods; Skill Development + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Kreativität; Arts; Education; Art in Education; Kunst; Bildung; Erziehung; Frühe Kindheit; Kultureller Unterschied; Asian immigrant; Chinese; United States; Asiatischer Einwanderer; Chinesen; USA; White; Weißer; Drawing; Zeichnen; Longitudinal study; Longitudinal method; Longitudinal methods; Längsschnittuntersuchung; Korrelation; Vorhersage; Elternverhalten; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Kompetenzentwicklung; Qualifikationsentwicklung
Abstract	Parents and early childhood teachers in Chinese societies and the United States have had dissimilar views about appropriate art instruction for young children. The Chinese view is that creativity will emerge after children have been taught essential drawing skills. The American view has been that children's drawing skills emerge naturally and that directive teaching will stifle children's creativity. Forty second-generation Chinese American and 40 European American young children participated in this longitudinal study at ages 5, 7, and 9 to explore possible cultural differences in and antecedents of their drawing skills and creativity. Chinese American children's person drawings were more mature and creative and their parents reported more formal ways of fostering creativity as compared to their European American counterparts. Correlations showed that children who had more opportunities to draw and who received more guidance in drawing were more advanced in their drawing. For Chinese Americans, fathers' personal art attitudes and children's Time 1 drawing skills predicted 53% of the variance in children's drawing scores four years later. (Contains 8 tables and 5 figures.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10