How do children develop their aesthetic sensibility?

Abstract

International audiencePurpose – The objective of this research is to understand how children develop their aesthetic sensibility. This question will be examined using modern art pictures and logos. Design/methodology/approach – The study refers to a qualitative method based on interviews with children aged 7 to 12. A total of 24 children were questioned. In order to reinforce the corpus, the authors tried to even out the proportion of girls and boys and to vary their social origins. The study was conducted during the summer of 2007 in three activity centers situated in the west of France. Findings – The paper indicates clearly a strong aesthetic sensibility in children. Visual beauty is the first criterion used for ranking in the scale of preference. The research also brings to light three individual characteristics that can be taken into account to understand how children develop their aesthetic judgment: involvement, age, and gender. Research limitations/implications – The study confirms the need to combine the methods of gathering data when dealing with children. The interviews raised a number of interesting points. However, an obstacle presented itself in the shape of the silence of a few children who were apparently troubled by the difficulty of the questions they were asked or by their lack of verbal skills to formulate their preferences clearly. Practical implications – Concerning the managerial aspect, the three individual characteristics of a child aesthetic sensibility (involvement, age, and sex) could bring important indications to manufacturers who trade on the markets for children. Originality/value – Regarding the academic aspect, it is the first research that deals with the influence of aesthetic judgment of a child on the choice of products

The active role of children as consumers

“…Such involvement was most observed for girls belonging to the higher age groups. Consistent with the literature (Coughlin and Wong, 2003;Ezan and Lagier, 2009;Young, 2004), both girls and boys of all age groups showed a strong participation in decision processes involving products featuring licensed characters or strong gender differences (as pink and glitter for girls, dragons and skulls for boys).…”

The Relationship of Aesthetic Value in Children’s Magazine and Reading’s Interest

“…In the meantime, according to Ezan and Lagier (2009), visual beauty is the most essential component in children's aesthetic value assessment, considering the child's involvement, age, and gender. As a result, this is viewed as a component that will impact children's diverse reading interests when it comes to a children's magazine (Ismail et al, 2021).…”

Some topics in thermodynamics and quantum mechanics

“…the free energy has the form (5B) and can be expressed in the form of a q-integral (cf. [21]). For 0 < q < 1 the q-integral is defined as (5.5)…”

“…We follow here [29] (JMP 50 (2009), -13303) (cf. also [2,5,18,21,22,29,30,31,33,38,39,42,49,52,53,56,64,65,68,73,76,80]. Denote the q-logarithm and exponential via (6.1)…”