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ERIC Number: EJ549574
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1997
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Reference Count: 0
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ISSN: ISSN-0009-4056
The Arts as the Basics of Education.
Egan, Kieran
Childhood Education, v73 n6 p341-45 International Focus Issue 1997
Argues that the arts are basic to educational development, as they provide the tools and skills that are central to early language development including story, metaphor, rhyme and rhythm, binary structuring and mediation, image formation from words, affective abstraction, and others that underlie more complex learning. (Author)
Descriptors: Art, Art Activities, Art Education, Child Development, Creative Activities, Creative Development, Curriculum, Developmental Stages, Early Childhood Education, Educational Strategies, Educational Theories, Elementary Education, Fine Arts, Foreign Countries, Intellectual Development, Language Acquisition
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Canada; Gardner (Howard); Spencer (Herbert)
Note: Theme Issue Topic: "Educating through the Arts."