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Peer reviewedLewis, Richard – Childhood Education, 1984
One of a series of statements focusing on children's basic rights, this brief essay asserts that all children need an environment where the act of imagining and its expression are respected and given visible outlets. (RH)
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Imagination
Peer reviewedEmerson, Peggy; Leigh, Cindy – Childhood Education, 1979
Discusses how children can widen their experiences and also acquire a fresh perspective on their everyday experiences through movement and dance. (CM)
Descriptors: Children, Creative Activities, Dance, Early Childhood Education
Peer reviewedLundin, Anne – Childhood Education, 1991
Maintains that children's books such as "The Secret Garden" can have a strong influence on one's life. Such books offer emotionally satisfying adventures and serve as the touchstones by which we measure all literary experience. (BB)
Descriptors: Autobiographies, Books, Childrens Literature, Emotional Experience
Peer reviewedTrawick-Smith, Jeffrey; Picard, Theresa – Childhood Education, 2003
Raises concerns about whether literacy-enriched play in early childhood settings is really play. Presents a vignette to illustrate how a teacher can model literacy unobtrusively, thereby enhancing literacy, but unwittingly draw children away from meaningful play activities. Differentiates the cognitive processes involved in play and literacy…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Early Childhood Education, Emergent Literacy, Imagination
Peer reviewedRaines, Shirley C.; Isbell, Rebecca T. – Childhood Education, 1994
Discusses how the storyteller dolls and myths of the Pueblo Indians illustrate the important influence that folktales, legends, and myths can have on children's language development, cultural appreciation, memory, imagination, and values. (MDM)
Descriptors: American Indian Culture, American Indian Literature, Children, Cultural Awareness
Peer reviewedJalongo, Mary Renck – Childhood Education, 1990
Examines the contributions of creativity and imagination to the total learning of the young child. Offers arguments against the myths that lead to deemphasis of the arts in curriculum. Recommends ways of refashioning schools to promote the expressive arts. (BB)
Descriptors: Art Education, Childrens Rights, Creative Art, Creative Expression
Peer reviewedWhitson, Alex – Childhood Education, 1994
Noting that today's economic, social, and scientific problems require creative solutions, points out the need for creative talent. Discusses how current thinking and educational practices in this country do little to encourage the development of creative individuals. Suggests that concentrating on developing the potential of each individual would…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Creative Thinking, Creativity, Economic Progress
Peer reviewedWassermann, Selma – Childhood Education, 1985
Identifies technological changes and the implications of computer-based learning for students and classroom activities. Presents person-oriented goals that teachers might implement in the classroom (based on a vision of the future) and encourages individual teacher's self-appraisal to close the gap between real and idealized classroom functioning.…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Change Agents, Change Strategies, Cognitive Ability
