Painting Activity as a Way of Expressing Child’s Cognitive Patterns according to the Concept of Intellectual Development of Jean Piaget. Implications for Pre-school Catechesis Cover Image

Aktywność plastyczna jako sposób wyrażania schematów poznawczych dziecka wedle koncepcji rozwoju intelektualnego Jeana Piageta. Implikacje dla katechezy przedszkolnej
Painting Activity as a Way of Expressing Child’s Cognitive Patterns according to the Concept of Intellectual Development of Jean Piaget. Implications for Pre-school Catechesis

Author(s): Małgorzata Kopiczko
Subject(s): Theology and Religion
Published by: Kuria Metropolitalna Białostocka
Keywords: child development; Jean Piaget; cognitive development; painting techniques;pre-school catechesis

Summary/Abstract: In the concept of Jean Piaget, the biological and cognitive development of man takes place through adaptation and accommodation. In this way, internal systems are created - patterns through which man accepts the world. However, external reality is not automatically and holistically transferred to the inner world of man. Instead, the internal construction of the world is being done. This inner world is not a reflection of reality. It is an internal cognitive construction, different in every human being. The drawing is a way of knowing this internal structure in the case of a child. On the basis of analyzes of preschoolers’ work, one can learn: how they understand religious concepts, how they imagine the world of sacrum, what emotions they have for religious matters. In order to get to know this inner world of child’s patterns, it is worth using painting techniques as part of pre-school religious lessons.

  • Issue Year: 36/2018
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 277-300
  • Page Count: 24
  • Language: Polish