Final Project Proposal

Defining your Proposal

What is your Working Title for your Project?

What is the Role of Animation Within the Development of Children?


Concisely, what are you planning on creating practically as a response to this proposal? 

For my practical part I will create an educational animation piece aimed towards a particular age group of children (3-5 years old) in order to study their response to visual piece of information in comparison to other platforms (reading, listening)


SUBJECTS OF CONTEXTUAL RESEARCH ALREADY UNDERTAKEN

What was your subject research and practical output at Level 5?

My research subject was whether education kills creativity and an animated short as visual response.


AIM AND/OR OBJECTIVES OF YOUR PROPOSED COP3 PROJECT

What research needs to be undertaken into the general and specific contexts of your practice?



My aim would be to innovate educational animation, I would achieve this by researching various pedagogical methods, hopefully by interviewing practitioners within the educational system; comparing other educational tools to animation and analysing children's response to animation;

What approaches will you take and what processes, methods, materials and tools are to be involved in research into your practice?

My practice would require me to reach out to schools and/or teachers, reading books on pedagogy, media and child development, analysing various TV programmes aimed towards children it might also require me to take part in conferences or expositions if I come across any that are relevant to my subject.

What preparation or investigation do you need to undertake for your creative practice to take place?

My practice would require a great amount of analysing successful children's programs, research towards the television's role within the development of children, studying children's response to animation in comparison to other learning tools, interviewing practicing teacher about animation's role within the educational syste


What research do you need to undertake regarding who your creativity is for?

My practical would be aimed towards the age group of 3-5 year old children and I would use it as part of my research to establish the role of animation within child development and how children respond to animated piece of information, for that I need to find out what the children of this specific age group find stimulating and captivating as well as how they could benefit from the animation by learning something from it. This might demand some research into the psychology of children.


Perceived problems or difficulties 

The problems that I can foresee so far are getting permission to test my animation on a group of children, basically setting up the whole showcase of the practical part of the dissertation;  finding teachers willing to be interviewed; the time frame I would have for creating the practical piece would be very limited as I would need to test it out on the audience before the christmas holiday if I want to showcase it in a school environment and include the results into my dissertation.


SOURCES

PRIMARY SOURCES OF INFORMATION

Description & Location - List at least 3

Interviewing a practicing pre school teacher,

Practical animation showcase to pre-schoolers and an analysis to their response

Analysing children's both educational and entertainment animation ("Sesame Street","Dora the Explorer","Blues Clues", etc.)

SECONDARY SOURCES OF INFORMATION

List at least 10 ( in Havard Reference format )

Strasburger, V.C., Wilson, B.J., and Jordan, A.B. (2008)"Children, adolescents, and the media - 2nd edition"Los Angeles: Sage Publications

Spencer, C., Blades, M., (2006)"Children and their environments learning using and designing spaces" Cambridge University Press

Willis., P., (1975) "Learning to labour how working class kids get working class jobs" Columbia University Press

Mulvey, L., Sexton J., (2007) "Experimental British television" Manchester, Manchester University Press

Lowe, R., Schnotz, W., (2008) "Learning with Animation: Research Implications for Design" Cambridge University Press

Calvert, S., J., (1988) "Television production feature effects on children's comprehension of time"Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, Ablex Publishing Corporation

Gatto, T., (1991) "Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Education" U.S.A., New Society Publishers

Wall, S., Litjens, I., Taguma, M., (2010)"Pedagogy in early childhood education and care (ECEC): an international comparative study of approaches and policies" Department for Education

Fortner,C., K., Jenkins, J.,M., (2016) "Kindergarten redshirting: Motivations and spillovers using census-level data" Early Childhood Research Quarterly vol 38, Elsvier publishing

Rogers, S., (2010) "Rethinking Play and Pedagogy in Early Childhood Education: Concepts, Contexts and Cultures",Routledge, Taylor & Francis Ltd