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Ariella Levenberg; Teres-Violet Mansour – RMLE Online: Research in Middle Level Education, 2025
This study explores teachers' perspectives on mandala coloring as a therapeutic tool for middle grades students with disruptive behavior disorders (DBDs). Employing an explanatory sequential mixed-methods design, the research first conducted qualitative interviews with ten experienced teachers, followed by teachers' quantitative assessments of 60…
Descriptors: Art, Freehand Drawing, Color, Middle School Students
Cora, Milagros I. Rivera; Gonzales, Soledad; Sarmiento, Matilde; Young, Alejandra Esparza; Esparza, Edith; Madjer, Nikolina; Shankar, Pinakini; Rivera, Yadmarie; Abulatan, Isaac – Education Quarterly Reviews, 2021
Children begin to emulate writing and what they see around them at a very early age (Byington & Kim, 2017). The simple scribbles they begin to produce are representations of complex cognitive processes occurring. The constant cognitive scaffolding which medical students experience can be compared to the cognitive process children participate…
Descriptors: Freehand Drawing, Concept Mapping, Medical Students, Cognitive Processes
Seçim, Ela Sümeyye; Durmusoglu, Mine Canan; Çiftçioglu, Mustafa – International Journal of Computer Science Education in Schools, 2021
This study investigated preschool children's opinions on educational robots using their robot drawings. The study group consisted of 64 five- and six-years old children in an independent kindergarden affiliated to the Ministry of National Education (MoNE) in Ankara province, Turkey and participated in the Preschool Robotics Coding Workshop within…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Student Attitudes, Robotics, Freehand Drawing
Marta Castellar Cárdenas; María Del Carmen Romero López; Y María Del Pilar Jiménez Tejada – Journal of Biological Education, 2024
The current pandemic has highlighted the importance of hand hygiene as a preventive measure to avoid the transmission of diseases. It is a habit that should be reinforced during childhood, so that it lasts into adulthood. The main objective was to analyse and describe, through drawing, the mental schemas that 6-12 year-old pupils have about clean…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, COVID-19, Pandemics
Rose, Sarah E.; Lomas, Megan H. R. – Mind, Brain, and Education, 2020
Test anxiety is prevalent among adolescents. Some potentially successful mindfulness-based coloring interventions have been identified in previous research, however, conclusions have been based on self-report measures only. In the current study, 150 17- to 18-years-olds taking final school exam completed measures of state anxiety (STAI) and…
Descriptors: Test Anxiety, High School Students, Metacognition, Intervention
Julia de Bres; Veronika Lovrits – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
This article uses reflective drawing to explore representations of multilingualism by Anglophone migrants in Luxembourg. Analysing twelve interviews in which participants drew and described their language experiences, we examine the language ideologies Anglophone migrants adopt in response to the ideologies of English they encounter. Participants…
Descriptors: Monolingualism, Multilingualism, Stereotypes, Language Attitudes
Acer, Dilek; Bas, Tugba; Teke, Nergiz – International Journal of Art & Design Education, 2022
The aim of this study was to examine the early childhood experiences of children visiting an art exhibition with their fathers and creating their own artwork. It was designed and conducted as a narrative study, which is a qualitative research methodology. Five children in early childhood (48-88 months old) and their fathers participated in the…
Descriptors: Fathers, Art, Exhibits, Preschool Children
Czerwinski, Natasha; Egan, Helen; Cook, Amy; Mantzios, Michail – Contemporary School Psychology, 2021
The number of teachers leaving the profession continues to increase at a worrying rate. Factors contributing to this include burnout, heightened levels of stress, anxiety and depression. The current study tested whether the use of mindful colouring would translate to improvements in wellbeing. Teachers from the UK (n = 35) were randomly assigned…
Descriptors: Teachers, Teacher Burnout, Stress Variables, Anxiety
Carsley, Dana; Heath, Nancy L. – Journal of American College Health, 2020
Objective: This study compared the effectiveness of mindfulness coloring (mandala), free drawing/coloring, and a noncoloring control activity for university students' test anxiety, and assessed the relationship of dispositional mindfulness and response to intervention on mindfulness and test anxiety states. Participants: University students (n =…
Descriptors: Test Anxiety, College Students, Metacognition, Program Effectiveness
Karniol, Rachel – Journal of Early Childhood Research, 2020
Preschool children from Israeli, Jewish-Orthodox families with an average of four children per family drew their families. Three aspects of gender differentiation in children's drawings were assessed in relation to children's gender and number of siblings: size of figures, colour use, and inclusion of gender-associated characteristics. Size of…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Freehand Drawing, Preschool Children, Foreign Countries
Talu, Ertugrul – European Journal of Educational Research, 2019
The purpose of this study is to examine the fears of children who are 6-10 years old via drawings. In this study, phenomenology research design which is among qualitative research methods was used. The study group of the study consisted of 314 children aged between 6 and 10 years in three primary schools in Kirsehir city center in 2017-2018…
Descriptors: Fear, Children, Freehand Drawing, Elementary School Students
Elkoshi, Rivka – International Journal of Music Education, 2019
This study was designed to investigate children's audiovisual art, following intuitive listening to complete classical works from different historical periods. The study aimed to examine the effect of different musical stimuli on children's audiovisual output. Two related questions were asked: (1) How do children visually and verbally represent…
Descriptors: Classical Music, Auditory Stimuli, Visual Stimuli, Grade 2
Keogh, Katharina; Creaven, Ann-Marie – Art Therapy: Journal of the American Art Therapy Association, 2017
In this study we tested whether drawing and coloring influence cardiovascular recovery and perceived stress following exposure to a stressor. In a mixed experimental design, participants (N = 62) completed an acute stress task before being randomly assigned to one of three brief activities: free-form drawing (full creative control), coloring…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Intervention, Human Body, Art Activities
Shao, Zeshu; van Paridon, Jeroen; Poletiek, Fenna; Meyer, Antje S. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2019
There is mounting evidence that the ease of producing and understanding language depends not only on the frequencies of individual words but also on the frequencies of word combinations. However, in two picture description experiments, Janssen and Barber (2012) found that French and Spanish speakers' speech onset latencies for short phrases…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, Nouns, Word Frequency, Indo European Languages
Young Students' Diverse Resources for Meaning Making in Science: Learning from Multilingual Contexts
Siry, Christina; Gorges, Anna – International Journal of Science Education, 2020
This manuscript elaborates the value of looking beyond the written and spoken word in science education research and practice at the early childhood level. We examine one plurilingual child's descriptions of a science activity to explore the "diversity of resources" that she used while expressing her understandings of a sound…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Science Instruction, Nonverbal Communication, Freehand Drawing