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ERIC Number: EJ549574
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 1997
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ISSN: ISSN-0009-4056
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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)
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Canada
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