Descripcion del libro:
**Artful Scribbles - The significance of children's drawings**: In this instructive and engaging book a noted psychologist explores the vital links between children's art and their emotional, social, and cognitive development. / Howard Gardner is the John H. and Elisabeth A. Hobbs Professor in Cognition and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Among numerous honors, Gardner received a MacArthur Prize Fellowship in 1981. In 1990, he was the first American to receive the University of Louisville's Grawemeyer Award in education. In 2000, he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts." - Publisher. CONTENTS: Introduction: Looking through children's drawings; First scribbles; The developmental course of scribbling; The romance of forms; Tadpoles as things; Steps to a doll house; Children's drawings as works of art; The reach toward realism; To copy or not; Forming artistic characters; Personal perspectives; Portraits of an adolescent artist; Developments.
