Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Milli Egitim, cilt.52, sa.238, ss.1011-1034, 2023 (Scopus)
It is important to assess children drawings according to stages of development but there is not one aspect of the development. Therefore, cognitive development of children should be followed as much as stages of artistic development. Accordingly, it is possible to follow students’ development considering the Lowenfeld’s stages of artistic development and Piaget’s theory of cognitive development. According to Lowenfeld, 13 years old is critical era, therefore, it is very crucial to support 13 years old students’ development by following their artistic and cognitive development. The purpose of this study to determine the artistic and cognitive development of students 13 years old by considering their drawings in terms of the Lowenfeld’s stages of artistic development and Piaget’s theory of cognitive development. With this aim, 61 students’ drawings were investigated in accordance with the Lowenfeld’s stages of artistic development and Piaget’s theory of cognitive development. The method of this study was qualitative method. The document analysis was applied through visual analysis. The data collected by the visual analysis was analyzed by content analysis, correlation analysis, regression analysis and t-test technique. Consequently, this study found that students possess artistic and cognitive development features in their current stage in terms of 13 years old predominantly with together some features of previous development era regarding the passing process from one to the other one stage. In addition, it was found that artistic development had advance more than cognitive development. Also, it was found that the cognitive development of students was predicted by the artistic development as based on meaningful correlation between artistic development and cognitive development. The other result was that gender differences have not important role in development process of both artistic and cognitive development. Considering the results of this study, regarding the assessment of students’ drawings, it can be suggested that art educators pay attention to students’ current development stage with together the previous stage by avoiding certain rules. In addition to that, the art activities can be suggested to place in lessons and educational programs more than the previous ones for holistic development of children due to the artistic development supports the cognitive development of students.