Metaphorical Visual Imagery from the Perspective of Children

Monika Wiśniewska-Kin

doi:10.18778/2450-4491.17.02

Auteurs

Monika Wiśniewska-Kin University of Lodz

DOI :

https://doi.org/10.18778/2450-4491.17.02

Mots-clés :

child discourse, children’s aptitude for metaphorization, knowledge construction, educational environment, picture book

Résumé

This paper will present the results of a study of an educational project on visual metaphors in children’s initiated discourse. The purpose of the study was to identify children’s metaphorical skills in recognizing similarities and noticing differences between the target domain and the source domain of visual metaphor in Iwona Chmielewska’s artistic picture book Two People, dedicated to the issue of community. In the designed didactic intervention activities, the research material came from participant observation, focus interviews and analysis of children’s creations (graphic visualizations). The research was carried out with a group of third-graders in selected elementary schools, in a metropolitan environment. The results of the research show children’s preferences for translating one area of metaphor by another, as well as strategies for constructing children’s knowledge about life in the community. In addition, they point to the need to expand the educational environment in Polish educational culture.

Biographie de l'auteur

Monika Wiśniewska-Kin, University of Lodz

Monika Wiśniewska-Kin – scientific and didactic employee of the University of Lodz. Head of the Department of Pedagogy of the Childhood Age, Vice-Dean for Science at the Faculty of Education Sciences. Preschool and early childhood educator, philologist. Her scientific achievements consist of numerous articles and eight compact works. She is the author of the innovative project of initial literacy learning Effective surprise. Thought-developing reading instruction. For her scientific and research and implementation activities, she has received awards from the Rector of the University of Lodz and the Minister of Science and Education, as well as Lodz Eureka and Wings of Imagination. The project also won international honors: a gold medal from the International Invention and Innovation Show and a World Invention Intellectual Property Associations WIIPA award.

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