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Chapter overview:
This chapter focuses on the importance of talk and narrative as a supportive mode for children to create meaning while they draw. We bring examples of how Luke, Thea, and Bertly, used narrative to infuse their drawing with action and meaning while developing their social interactions and their relationships. We then discuss how the three children copied from each other and other peers in the form, content and narrative of their drawing, to come up with their unique representations and meanings. We discuss the reasons why Luke, Thea, and Bertly copied and how their acts of copying were enhanced by their conversations and talk.
Further Readings:
Nicolopoulou, A. (2008). The elementary forms of narrative coherence in young children’s storytelling. Narrative Inquiry 18, 299–325.
Wright, S. (2008). Young children’s meaning‑making through drawing and ‘telling’: Analogies to filmic textual features. Australian Journal of Early Childhood 32(4). https://www.earlychildhoodaustralia.org.au
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