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ERIC Number: EJ658019
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 2002
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Reference Count: 0
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ISSN: ISSN-1538-6619
Painting a Tragedy: Young Children Process the Events of September 11.
Gross, Toni; Clemens, Sydney Gurewitz
Young Children, v57 n3 p44-51 May 2002
Shows how young children in one early childhood classroom used art materials to express their feelings one day after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Maintains that adults should help children use art activities to work out an understanding of violent events, regain control, and reach some resolution on the violence they see. Includes a list of daily art-related practices. (KB)
Descriptors: Art Expression, Class Activities, Coping, Early Childhood Education, Emotional Experience, Learning Activities, Terrorism, Young Children
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
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Language: English
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Identifiers: September 11th Attacks