Interesting Children

Interesting Children Asi Sharabi no-mans-blog.com

Children’s drawings are great. They are usually honest and naive and obscure and can be very, very funny...

They are also a very rich tool for sociological and cross- cultural research, because drawing requires children to make their intentions clear through shared denotations and common symbols that stand for recognized cultural ideas. “A collection of cultural symbols...shared representations of objects and expressions of ideas, feelings and emotions” (Burns 1987)

If you want to read more about the way I used drawings to better understand Israeli children’s perceptions of Palestinian children you can read about it here http://no-mans-blog.com/previous-life/

Children’s ideas of interestingness* * (This exercise by no means qualiﬁes as an academic research, it is merely an exercise prepared for Interesting 09)

Please draw something interesting... (6-8 years old, West London)

Four common themes were apparent...

Technology is interesting...

Friends are interesting...

Motors are interesting...

Animals are interesting...

Conclusions: Interesting is a very open, inter-subjective concept for both adults and children. It seems like for children at this age, ideas of fun & leisure are interchangeable with ideas of interestingness...

Special thanks for the children of Ecole Francaise Jacques Prevert, West London and my good friend Claudine Provencher

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