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Peer reviewedDyson, Anne Haas – Harvard Educational Review, 1996
Describes children's participating in dramatic play activities that are teacher or peer governed. Illustrates children's use of cultural symbols as material for story construction and social affiliation. Argues for a literacy curriculum in which cultural symbols are open to critical examination. (Author/SK)
Descriptors: Children, Dramatic Play, Ethnography, Mass Media
