Children Making Meaning

This ground-breaking text highlights the value of drawing as a meaningful way for children to communicate, demonstrating how it is inextricably linked with children's everyday experiences, thinking processes, imagination, emotions, and learning.

Josephine Deguara is Senior Lecturer in Early Childhood and Primary Education at the University of Malta, Malta. Cathy Nutbrown is Professor of Education at The University of Sheffield, UK.

1. Young children's meaning-making 2. Interpreting children's drawings from a social semiotics perspective 3. Children drawing meanings 4. Researching children's drawings 5. Luke's story 6. Thea's story 7. Bertly's story 8. Form and content in children's drawings 9. Drawing identities 10. Love, power, good and evil 11. Drawing, talk, narrative, and collaboration 12. Children's funds of knowledge: Pedagogical considerations 13. Listening to children drawing