A pedagogical experiment in doodle art in elementary grades was done by Jaipur based educator and researcher Dr Lalit Kishore [1] for non-art benefits for students of elementary school level.
According to Kishore, doodling and scribbling are unconscious processes but can be converted into a conscious process by segmenting the space within the doodle and filling them with line patterns, strokes and swirls, numeric and language symbols as experimented by me with kids and myself.
He adds that doodle can result into appealing abstract art piece.The process for imparting doodling art experience was as follows: (i)demonstration by the investigator of creating doodle art; (ii) students doing a guided doodle art piece on a provided doodle outline; and (iii)students doodling on their own to create individual art pieces. This was done in one hour. After this, students were asked to create a doodle art piece at home every day for 12 days by spending 20 minutes as part of their homework and submit it. The process of doodle art creation was as follows: (a) doodling with a continuous line going all around the paper and ending where it started from; (b) dividing the space within the doodle into segments; and (iii) filling each segment with one or the other pattern consisting of lines, bricks, checks, geometric shapes and symbols
.In this pedagogical experiment tried with twenty children in Jaipur, the doodling experience of 10 days X 20 minutes led a perceptible change in the concentration of students as felt by them in weeks’ time.
Note: Inset picture shows the publication in mynews.in 2011 and portal is closed now
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