CHILDREN'S INTERPRETATIONS OF REALITY

Abstract

The research presented in the article is a fragment of a larger pedagogical and psychological research project on the concept formation in the child’s mind. The subject of the research is children's creativity – linguistic and drawing, subjected to analysis and description from not only pedagogical, but also sociological and psychological perspective. Problems that arise in connection with the analysis of children's utterances relate to the relationship between the real world and a picture of the world in the child's mind. The problems of knowledge construction are related to the concepts of creating representation in the mind; therefore, in theoretical foundations, I refer to the psychological concept of creating representation in hierarchically shaped memory systems (procedural, semantic, episodic). The research methodology, however, falls within the 'soft' perspective of qualitative research, referring to grounded theory, using the category of the language image of the world and semiotic analyzes of drawing utterances.