‘Draw, write and tell’: A literature review and methodological development on the ‘draw and write’ research method

摘要

The creative research method ‘draw and write’ has been used in health, social care and education researchudfor several decades. A literature search of studies utilising this method was conducted during the planningudstages of a study exploring primary school children’s perceptions of infant feeding. A review of this literatureudnoted a range of benefits of ‘draw and write’ in enabling child participation. However, it also identified thatudthe method has been used inconsistently and found that there are issues for researchers in relation toudinterpretation of creative work and analysis of data. As a result of this, an improvement on this method,udentitled ‘draw, write and tell’, was developed in an attempt to provide a more child-orientated and consistentudapproach to data collection, interpretation and analysis. This article identifies the issues relating to ‘drawudand write’ and describes the development and application of ‘draw, write and tell’ as a case study, noting itsudlimitations and benefits