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Envisioning the Mind: Children's Representations of Mental Processes

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dc.contributor.authorRice, Rebekah R.en
dc.contributor.committeechairBliznakov, Milka T.en
dc.contributor.committeememberRott, Hans Christianen
dc.contributor.committeememberBraaten, Ellen B.en
dc.contributor.departmentArchitectureen
dc.date.accessioned2011-08-06T14:44:17Zen
dc.date.adate2004-01-06en
dc.date.available2011-08-06T14:44:17Zen
dc.date.issued1990-03-14en
dc.date.rdate2004-01-06en
dc.date.sdate2003-12-08en
dc.description.abstractInspired by writings on creativity and by Howard Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences, I conducted a series of ten "exercises" -- each of them a guided visualization followed by an opportunity to produce -- with nine- and ten-year-old students. The visualizations, which were designed to encourage the students to explore some of the many ways our minds have of knowing and learning, began with a simple relaxation exercise and proceeded to more challenging exercises involving, for instance, kinesthetic learning, sensory awareness, the logical and linguistic mind versus the spatial mind, and intra- and interpersonal intelligence. Following each visualization the students discussed what they had experienced (transcripts of the visualizations and the discussions are included in the thesis). The students responded in visual terms as well: after each visualization, each student created a two- or three-dimensional piece of art from materials such as matboard, construction and origami paper, glue, felt-tip pens, pipe cleaners, and plastic-coated wire. These visual responses have been photographed, described, and scored according to the number of materials used, the number of colors used, and the dimensionality of the piece (photos, descriptions, and scores are included in the "Gallery". I found, surprisingly, that the visualizations in which the students were the most imaginatively engaged did not always produce the most interesting art, and that girls were much less likely than boys to create three-dimensional pieces, although girls tended to use more colors and occasionally used relief on otherwise two-dimensional pieces.en
dc.description.degreeMaster of Architectureen
dc.format.mediumETDen
dc.identifier.otheretd-12082003-134600en
dc.identifier.sourceurlhttp://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-12082003-134600/en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/9654en
dc.publisherVirginia Techen
dc.relation.haspartRRRice.pdfen
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectCreativityen
dc.subjectChildren's Arten
dc.subjectEducationen
dc.subjectThree-dimensionalen
dc.subjectMultiple Intelligencesen
dc.titleEnvisioning the Mind: Children's Representations of Mental Processesen
dc.typeThesisen
thesis.degree.disciplineArchitectureen
thesis.degree.grantorVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State Universityen
thesis.degree.levelmastersen
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Architectureen

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