A Study of Toddler’s Aesthetic Preference on The Plastic Style of Picture Book.

• Main Authors: Chiu Peng Chen, 邱鵬城
• Other Authors: Su-Chen Liu
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2005
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/06465154127800384500

碩士 === 國立臺灣藝術大學 === 造形藝術研究所 === 93 === Abstract The researches of modern physiology and cognitive psychology prove that reading picture books can help toddlers develop attention and enhance their interests in reading. Reading picture books will help toddlers in brain development, language development and broaden their vision, inspire their imagination, and increase their creativity as well as frustration tolerance. At present studies of children on picture books are mostly in the range of 3 to12 year olds, but studies in toddler stage are rare. However, the toddler stage is the key stage of developing children’s reading habit. If this golden stage is missed, the efforts need to be doubled. This paper is an empirical quantitative research, referring to Hwang Whei-lin’s The Aesthetic Development of Children’s Preference to the Styles of Illustration in Children’s Picture Books, AEPS’s Sense Stimulation of Children and Babies and Bowker & Sawyers’s Preschool Children’s Artistic Preferences. The purpose of this paper is to explore if toddlers’ aesthetics preferences on the plastic style of picture books, such as realistic, pattern and cartoon, differ with age, reading habit or pre-knowledge. The subjects were sampling from two private kindergartens in Taipei County, in a body of toddlers aged from 7 months to 36 months and drawing 100 subjects at random. With the help and assistance of employees of these two kindergartens giving questionnaires to toddlers’ parents, the questionnaires later are 98% retrieved. After excluding invalid samples of blank and incomplete forms, the valid, reliable samples amount to 80 copies. By establishing Excel file and using SPSS to proceed Chi-Square test analysis, the result tends to reveal the factors that affect toddlers’ aesthetic preferences on the plastic style of picture book can be listed as age, the number of children in the family, have or no picture books at home, the number of picture books, the company of parents while reading, father’s age, father’s education, mother’s age, mother’s education and pre-knowledge.