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Peer reviewedWolf, Dennis Palmer; Perry, Martha Davis – Theory into Practice, 1988
This article examines the abilities children exercise in a variety of record-making activities, including mapping, quantification, and music notation. The ways teachers and educational climates promote different versions of literacy are discussed. Children's conceptions of literacy are examined. (JL)
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Decoding (Reading), Early Childhood Education, Literacy
Peer reviewedDyson, Anne Haas – Young Children, 1990
Discusses the developmental process that allows children to use symbols to represent their experienced world and to construct imagined worlds. Emphasizes the critical role of art and play in children's growth as symbol makers. (BB)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Early Childhood Education, Freehand Drawing, Interpersonal Relationship
Download full textBarrett, Margaret; And Others – 1994
An ethnographic study documented and analyzed the idiosyncratic symbols kindergarten children employ to encode their experiences in the domains of mathematics, music, and visual art, in order to identify any patterns in use and meaning. In the area of mathematics, children were given common objects and asked to sort them. Four categories of…
Descriptors: Art Activities, Associative Learning, Classification, Coding
