TY - JOUR
T1 - Acquiring cultural forms
T2 - Cognitive aspects of socialization illustrated by children's drawings and judgments of drawings
AU - Goodnow, Jacqueline J.
AU - Wilkins, Paula
AU - Dawes, Leslie
PY - 1986
Y1 - 1986
N2 - To explore how children come to adopt cultural forms of representation, three studies are presented. Study 1 asks about children's ability to discriminate between ‘younger’ and ‘older’ pieces of work, with ‘younger and ‘older’ distinguished on the basis of Developmental Drawing Status (Harris 1963). Study 2 asks about children's preferences and the extent to which they match those of teachers. Study 3 asks about the differences between drawings children produce for themselves and those they produce when asked by an adult for a ‘good’ drawing. The underlying assumption is that one condition influencing developmental change is children's exposure to work by adults or by older children. The results point to ways of combining cross-cultural comparisons of performances with monocultural work on processes underlying children's productions. They also raise questions about patterns of exposure in any cultural context and about factors involved in the development of discriminations, preferences, and audience expectations.
AB - To explore how children come to adopt cultural forms of representation, three studies are presented. Study 1 asks about children's ability to discriminate between ‘younger’ and ‘older’ pieces of work, with ‘younger and ‘older’ distinguished on the basis of Developmental Drawing Status (Harris 1963). Study 2 asks about children's preferences and the extent to which they match those of teachers. Study 3 asks about the differences between drawings children produce for themselves and those they produce when asked by an adult for a ‘good’ drawing. The underlying assumption is that one condition influencing developmental change is children's exposure to work by adults or by older children. The results point to ways of combining cross-cultural comparisons of performances with monocultural work on processes underlying children's productions. They also raise questions about patterns of exposure in any cultural context and about factors involved in the development of discriminations, preferences, and audience expectations.
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U2 - 10.1177/016502548600900406
DO - 10.1177/016502548600900406
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84970359117
VL - 9
SP - 485
EP - 505
JO - International Journal of Behavioral Development
JF - International Journal of Behavioral Development
SN - 0165-0254
IS - 4
ER -