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18 Feature Age range 3–11 years POWER DRAWING The CAMPAIGN FOR DRAWING is helping children to learn says Eileen Adams Power Drawing is the education programme of Drawing Power, the Campaign for Drawing. It focuses on how drawing can help children to learn. The intention is to develop a range of strategies, methods and techniques to support learning through drawing. Drawing is not confined to art and design, but can be used as a medium for learning across the curriculum. Teachers and their pupils in schools in England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales are involved in action research, generating and collecting evidence of children using drawing to help them learn. Just as different kinds of writing and speaking serve different purposes, drawing can be used for a variety of reasons. Drawings need to be seen as conceptual tools, an aid to thinking, a way of organising, shaping and communicating ideas and the means for taking action. We can use drawing in a variety of ways: Drawing as perception: drawing that assists the ordering of sensations, feelings, ideas and thoughts. Children draw to understand something for themselves, something they see, or their feelings or intuitions. These drawings might not mean anything to anyone else. It does not matter. They might be for the child to enjoy the sensuous experience of using materials, exploring qualities of colour and line. They might be gestural drawings, full of emotion. They might be repetitive, enabling the child to practise making marks. They might be obsessive, allowing the child to focus on something personal. Drawing as communication: drawing that assists the process of making ideas, thoughts and feelings available to others. Children have something to say and attempt to use codes and conventions that someone trying to ‘read’ their drawing will understand. These can include illustrations, narrative drawings, maps, plans, graphs, storyboards, diagrams and many more. Drawing can be used in any subject to communicate ideas. Drawing as manipulation: drawing that assists the creative manipulation and development of thought. Children have ideas, but cannot develop them unless they make them visible, accessible and sharable. Their ‘rough’ drawings provide prompts for further thought, experiment and interaction. The Power Drawing team are collecting evidence from teachers in nursery, infant and primary schools. This includes examples of different kinds of drawings and short reports from teachers and pupils. This evidence will be analysed and used as a basis for a major book, which will be published in 2005. The current series of 24-page Power Drawingbooklets reports on work in progress and invites responses from educators. Power Drawing sets the framework for the research, identifying how drawing can be used to develop skills of perception, communication and invention (out of print). Get Drawing, focuses on children aged 3-6 and shows how drawing features as an important aspect of education in the early years. Drawing on experience explains how drawing can be used in museums and galleries to focus attention, increase concentration and help visitors make sense of their experience. Lines of Enqiry (available autumn 2003) suggests how the use of research notebooks in primary schools can develop observational skills and imaginative capabilities to nurture intellectual curiosity and creativity. THE NEW MAGAZINE FOR PRIMARY AND PRE-SCHOOL TEACHERS OF ART, CRAFT & DESIGN
Further information: www. drawingpower.org.uk www.accessart.org.uk/drawingtogether www.nsead.org/publications 19 START The team has also developed You can draw … guidance notes on drawing for teachers in primary schools to promote drawing in a variety of contexts. Contact Sally Bassett, Education Development Manager, sbassett@binneysmith.com A ten minute video Draw it! based on the first BIG DRAW at The British Museum has been produced by Malachite Films in association with the Campaign for Drawing. The pack includes discussion material, POWER DRAWING books and guidance notes. POWER DRAWING publications are available from NSEAD. Books cost £4.00 including p&p. Video £15 including p&p. Online drawing workshops for children have been produced in collaboration with Access Art at: www.accessart.org.uk/drawingtogether Primary teachers, pupils and parents may also wish to know about THE BIG DRAW. This is an annual event in October in museums, galleries, science centres, schools and many other places open to the public, where drawing is used to encourage access to collections, to make the experience of learning more enjoyable and more intense. Check the website www.drawingpower.org.uk Pattern found on a wooden chest in the village church. Based on an observational drawing in pencil, then translated into a Iino print and used as an illustration in a book, Celebrating Coton (9 years, Coton Primary School). Observation drawing using fibre tip pen. The approach is fast and intense. Key elements are exaggerated. ‘Mistakes’ are not rubbed out, but worked over, built upon or changed into something else (9 years, Swansea). Felt tip and water colour, drawing of the neighbourhood. Different kinds of perspectives combine to create a complex and interesting narrative (9 years, Cwmrhydyceirw Primary School). Water colour of the landscape, using colour and tone to create a feeling of space and distance (9 years, Coton Primary School). Drawing and collage used to analyse the design and use of the school grounds (5 years, St Davids Primary School, Swansea). A design to change the school grounds to create playground markings and shelter (9 years, Gillespie School, London). THE NEW MAGAZINE FOR PRIMARY AND PRE-SCHOOL TEACHERS OF ART, CRAFT & DESIGN
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