Re-imagining school through young people’s drawings Bland, Derek
C. (2009) Re-imagining school through young people’s drawings.
In 1st International Visual Methods Conference, 15-17 September
2009, Clothworkers Centenary Concert Hall, University of Leeds.
(Unpublished) Children’s drawings provide rich qualitative data
(Walker, 2008) and “valuable information for the assessment of
children's environmental perceptions” (Barraza, 1999, p. 49).
They are the primary data source being used to re-imagine school
from a student perspective (Schratz & Steiner-Löffler, 1998) in
a research project being carried out with primary school
students in Queensland, Australia. This paper will report on the
progress of this project which addresses a mostly unmet need for
students’ perspectives to be included in school design (Rudduck
& Flutter, 2004). Grade 5/6 students in a number of primary
schools have been invited to submit annotated drawings with up
to 200 words of text illustrating their ideal educational
spaces. Using purp