This study sought to investigate the way in which young children respond
to and make aesthetic judgements about art works made by their peers.
Grounded Theory was deemed to be an appropriate research methodology
enabling a scrutiny of serendipitous experiences as well as structured
investigation generated from those experiences.
A total of 296 seven-year-old children were interviewed in small groups of
three or four and asked to respond to visual art materials. These subjects
were drawn from schools in the states of Queensland, New South Wales
and the Australian Capital Territory.
Results indicated that two factors associated with the appraisal of art works
seemed to exist: a function of making aesthetic judgements and a function
of gathering and interpreting information about the art works. The study
found that children utilized a three-phase process in making aesthetic
judgements. The first phase seemed to be pre-figured; the second and third
phase seemed to occur as a outcome of prompting. This three-phase process
was designated as an Aesthetic Response Model.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:ADTP/218868 |
| Date | January 1994 |
| Creators | Cunningham, Alan David, n/a |
| Publisher | University of Canberra. Education |
| Source Sets | Australiasian Digital Theses Program |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Rights | ), Copyright Alan David Cunningham |
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