Solovieva Y., Quintanar L. Importance of drawing development in preschool age

Keywords: preschool age education art preparation for school activity creativity

Solovieva Y., Quintanar L. Importance of drawing development in preschool age // Preschool Education Today. 2013, Issue 1 - p. 74–78.

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2013, 1

Yulia V. Solovieva
Dr. Sci. (Psychol.), Professor at the Faculty of Psychology, Meritorious Autonomous University of Puebla, Mexico; Faculty of Sciences for Human Development, Autonomous University of Tlaxcala, Mexico, Federal Center for Psychological and Multidisciplinary Research, Moscow, Russian Federation

Luis Quintanar Rojas
Universidad Autonoma de Tlaxcala, Mexico

Abstract

The pre-school age is the period of grate importance for psychological development and for preparation for school. The process of learning and achievements at school depends on the types of activities selected at pre-school level. Unfortunately, it is often to find out that introduction of writing and reading is among the most common activities in pre-school institutions all over the world. Instead of this we propose drawing as suitable activity for children development. The program is applied in different pre-school institutions in Mexico and Colombia. After program application all children show qualitative positive achievements in graphic activity and manage to represent essential features and shapes of represented objects. We insist that drawing is extremely useful activity for preparation for school learning, especially for writing process.