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Drawing social worlds: a methodological examination of children's artworks.

Authors :
Payne, Rachel
Source :
Qualitative Research; Aug2023, Vol. 23 Issue 4, p1093-1111, 19p
Publication Year :
2023

Abstract

This paper presents one aspect of a sociocultural micro-ethnographic study examining how 11- and 12-year-old children formulate meanings when working with an artist in a contemporary art gallery. My primary focus is an examination of methodological contributions emerging from an imaginative coding and analysis of children's art. Ninety-nine artworks were created in collaboration with the artist and were organised and interpreted using a constructionist interviewing coding scheme. This unorthodox approach to visual analysis unearthed information that oral accounts cannot provide alone revealing meanings which would otherwise remain dormant. By intuitively applying the coding framework I expose how participants' meanings are negotiated by appropriating and re-organising cultural concepts into personalised narratives. As such, artworks reveal participants' desires, interpretations and intentions, operating as agentic cultural producers as well as unconsciously reproducing visual epistemologies ubiquitous in Western cultures. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
14687941
Volume :
23
Issue :
4
Database :
Complementary Index
Journal :
Qualitative Research
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
169805340
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1177/14687941211052273