Aspects of Using Drawings as an Expressive Way of Understanding the Children
Aspects of Using Drawings as an Expressive Way of Understanding the Children

Summary/Abstract: Drawing has an important role in the activities performed by children of preschool and early-aged children. In most cases, the immediate appreciation of the children's drawings is an aesthetic one, relevant for identifying the creative potential. Besides those, it is important to keep in mind that beyond this aspect of a work, we can find other information about the child's personality, about their cognitive and emotional development or maybe what concerns them by trying to decipher the messages that the children choose to convey to us, somehow indirectly, through their drawings. In our paper we will point out some of the ways and directions of interpretation of children's drawings and we will explain five projective tests, in a way accessible both to teachers for primary and preschool education, and to parents concerned with this subject. Our study aimed to draw attention to drawing as an expressive (non-diagnostic) way of understanding the child, which can be used by teachers in the class or group in any school or preschool environment, without requiring an initial psychological training, but a minimum of knowledge about the analysis and interpretation of children's drawings.

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