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Children's drawing and visual events within STEAM education
University of Gävle, Faculty of Education and Business Studies, Department of Educational sciences, Educational science. (ECE)ORCID iD: 0000-0003-3412-8486
2025 (English)In: E21: The potential of picture books, drawings and play, 2025Conference paper, Oral presentation with published abstract (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

This presentation concerns how preschool children's act of drawing (visual trace-making) and the resulting drawings can become a source of knowledge concerning STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics) subjects and the interplay in-between those subjects. The study takes as its point of departure that STEAM education—where the A (i.e., arts), including dance, drama, music, and visual arts, are fully integrated—can expand knowledge development across all the included disciplines. A central premise is that children are viewed as active, meaning-making agents capable of contributing knowledge, experiences, and insights (e.g., Corsaro, 2018) to everyday educational practices. The data in focus derives from an ethnographic fieldwork and addresses children's drawings intentionally produced during planned STEAM teaching events and those that emerge spontaneously within educational practices of STEAM learning. In the analysis performed, the use of a spotlight approach is tried out, which entails directing the searchlight towards four positionings (Areljung, 2023) that can show STEAM learning in the visual events in the produced data (video, photos, and field notes). The study adhered to the ethical principles, including provisions for information, informed consent, the right to withdraw from participation, confidentiality in data usage and children's informed consent during the ethnographic fieldwork. The interplay between visual events, children's drawings and STEAM education makes way for new and altered ways of understanding knowledge development within STEAM education. The study's results can contribute to research and provide practical insights into how children learn and what they learn through drawing in the context of STEAM education.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2025.
Keywords [en]
children’s drawings, drawing (visual trace-making), STEAM education, STEAM interplay, spotlight method, visual events
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Educational Sciences
Research subject
Innovative Learning
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URN: urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-48112OAI: oai:DiVA.org:hig-48112DiVA, id: diva2:1992583
Conference
33rd EECERA, Early Education for All: Celebrating Diversity and Seeking Inclusion, Bratislava, Slovakia 25-28 August 2025
Part of project
STEAM in early childhood education: An opportunity to traverse gender norms connected to Arts and STEM?, Swedish Research Council
Funder
Swedish Research Council, 2022-03330_VRAvailable from: 2025-08-27 Created: 2025-08-27 Last updated: 2025-10-02Bibliographically approved

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