Abstract
Previous studies have investigated the development of the concept of being alive at an early age from different methodological perspectives. However, these approaches place excessive emphasis on verbal communication which can lead to limitations when it comes to measure this biological concept. Therefore, a methodology based on the pictorial productions of students is presented. The present research aims to analyze the relationship between the notion of being alive and children 's drawings in a sample of 197 boys and girls of 4-8 years old. For this, a categorization task is performed with images of living and inert beings, followed by the collection of graphic expressions about the plant world. The results point to the fact that students with the most precise knowledge about plants are alive draw more frequently pictorial elements related to life such as sun, water, seeds, clouds and tend to draw more plants types.
Publisher
University of the Basque Country
Subject
Information Systems and Management,Information Systems,Software
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