Professor, Visual and Performing Arts, NIE, 2004
PhD MPhil Dip Art and Design London, Cert. Early Childhood Education Froebel
College, London
He is an artist and teacher who has had teaching experience from pre-school
through to art school education. His main research field is the origin and
development of visual representation and expression in early childhood. His
published works on this subject include: "Drawing: Developmental Trends", in
Pergamon International Encyclopedia of Education (London 1988), "The young
child's early representation and drawing", in Blenkin, G. M. and Kelly, A. V.
(eds.) "Early Childhood Education: A Developmental Curriculum" (1988), "Helping
Children to Draw and Paint in Early Childhood: Children and Visual
Representation" (London, 1994) and "The Art of Childhood and Adolescence: The
Construction of Meaning" (London, 1999) this book has now been translated into
spanish. His latest book is Drawing and Painting : Children and Visual
Representation, London 2003. He has also contributed a chapter "The art of
infancy" in Kindler, A., Eisner, E. and Day, M. (eds.)(2003) "Learning in the
Visual Arts : Handbook of research and Policy in Art Education, (USA 2003). He
is currently working on an NTU-funded Research Project entitled "The Origin of
Visual Literacy: How Very Young Children Produce and 'Read' 2D Visual Structure,
A Cross-Cultural Study". In addition to this theoretical work, he teaches
studio-based work, including painting and drawing in both traditional and
electronic media.
Source: NIE
