Lowenfeld and Brittain's stages of art development parallel Piaget's stages of cognitive development¶

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Description¶

The article uses Lowenfeld and Brittain's (1987) stages of art development as a framework coinciding with Piaget's cognitive stages. It states that "Paralleling the preoperational and concrete operational stages of cognitive development are the preschematic and schematic stages of art development." Children's drawings were classified as preschematic, transitional, or schematic, and these classifications were compared with cognitive-stage and reading classifications.

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• Observational data and children's drawings are needed to classify students into art-development stages

Constraints¶

• The article notes children may sometimes regress to an earlier stage of art development, so development is not always a smooth process

Target Learners¶

• first-grade students

Target Learning Objectives¶

• literacy development
• cognitive development
• art development

Claims¶

Related Theories¶

• Stages of Cognitive Development

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Key Sources¶

• Hale, Judy A. (1996). Determining Relationships between Young Children's Cognitive Stage of Development and Art Stage of Development as They Relate to Literacy. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED394938