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Letters from Brazil: Psychological Analysis of Migrant Children’s Drawings and Phone Interviews with their Parents
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Matelova. Letters from brazil: psychological analysis of migrant children’s drawings and phone interviews with their parents. European J Psychol E. 2020;3(2):123-132. doi: 10.12973/ejper.3.2.123
Matelova, B. (2020). Letters from brazil: psychological analysis of migrant children’s drawings and phone interviews with their parents. European Journal of Psychology and Educational Research, 3(2), 123-132. https://doi.org/10.12973/ejper.3.2.123
Matelova Bojana. "Letters from Brazil: Psychological Analysis of Migrant Children’s Drawings and Phone Interviews with their Parents," European Journal of Psychology and Educational Research 3, no. 2 (2020): 123-132. https://doi.org/10.12973/ejper.3.2.123
Matelova, 2020, 'Letters from brazil: psychological analysis of migrant children’s drawings and phone interviews with their parents', European Journal of Psychology and Educational Research, vol. 3, no. 2, pp. 123-132. Matelova, Bojana. "Letters from Brazil: Psychological Analysis of Migrant Children’s Drawings and Phone Interviews with their Parents." European Journal of Psychology and Educational Research, vol. 3, no. 2, 2020, pp. 123-132, https://doi.org/10.12973/ejper.3.2.123.
Abstract
According to various psychological studies, children’s drawings can tell us more than we can ever imagine. They can tell us stories about their author’s level of education, problems and knowledge gaps. According to the theory on the comparative multi-level picture analysis, drawings reveal the inner world of a child and can be used to improve educational practices to make them more personal. This research study analyses 157 drawings that Bulgarian migrant children that live and study in rural areas of Brazil sent to a researcher. Besides the comparative multi-level picture analysis approach the researcher applied various methods of picture analysis to investigate how the Bulgarian children experience the educational practices in Brazil. Additionally, the parents were interviewed via phone. They provided valuable information on their children’ development and level of success in schools. The study is a very important contribution to the theory of analysis of drawings as well as to the intercultural education theory. Additionally, it has a high comparative value as it was carried in a cross-cultural environment and can be used as a reference for future research studies in this field.
Keywords: Qualitative research, psychology of education, rural schools, migrant children, interculturalism.
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