2010 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

The project of "as if" drawings : The aims of developing art educational skills of the college students in the course of early childhood education and preschool children's creativity

Research Project

Project/Area Number	21830044
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Research Field	Educaion
Research Institution	University of Toyama
Principal Investigator	WAKAYAMA Ikuyo University of Toyama, 人間発達科学部, 講師 (90553115)
Project Period (FY)	2009 – 2010
Keywords	保育者志望学生 / ペルソナ / シナリオ法 / 幼児 / 見立て描画
Research Abstract	The purposes of this study were to develop art educational skills of the college students in the course of early childhood education, and preschool children's creativity through "as if" drawing activities. The students made the teaching plans of "as if" drawing activity using Persona/Scenario method. Today, commercial artists use the Persona/Scenario method to produce user-centered design. The findings were that (1) the students acquired higher art educational skills through experiences that made the teaching plans of "as if" drawing using Persona/Scenario method. (2) Preschool children showed creativities in "as if" drawing activities when the college students carried out their teaching plans in preschools.

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