Granì (Nov 2016)
Image of the family in the art works of children who were left without parental care
Abstract
Problems of relations between children and parents have been represented in the article. The term of reluctant orphanhood was implemented in the beginning of XX century. This category refers to children who have parents but, despite this fact, they live on the street. Such problem is always very interesting for politics, sociology and pedagogics as young generation is the natural fund of the social development. The problem of lack of adequate procedures of the child’s personality study is considered to be very important in the modern society, especially for kids who are at the shelters. Special techniques, based on the natural activity, are used by foreign scientists to study individual child’s world, i.e. drawing. In our country, researchers have begun to pay more attention to drawing as a mean of getting knowledge about personality only during recent years. The drawing is the highly informative mean of learning the child’s personality. It shows how kids see themselves or others, their feelings and experiences. Drawing allows the researcher to give more attention to changes in the child’s emotional state and to distinguish the painting processes. The colour by itself can express certain feelings, moods and even describe emotional atmosphere of relations. The image of the family, interpersonal family relationships, values and behaviour are analysed on the basis of empirical material results of the drawing techniques’ use. The research has been conducted in the specialized shelter of Odessa. The main objective of the study is to identify the specifics of family images in the world picture of the orphan. Particular attention has been paid to the problems of emotional experience of the kids. The inner world of the kids with orphan status has been studied during the research. It has been found that the image of the family in the inner world of orphans has such characteristics, which are grounded on the content of life experience. During the research, it has been found out that the image of the family is presented in two opposite ways in children’s pictures. On the one hand, the image of the family is fragmented, characterized by complex interfamilial microclimates, which is typical for kid’s native real family. On the other hand, there is an idealistic image of the family which kid wants to have in future.
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