
ERIC Number: EJ549576
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 1997
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Learning How to Learn: The Arts as Core in an Emergent Curriculum.
Wright, Susan
Childhood Education, v73 n6 p361-65 International Focus Issue 1997
Argues that the arts provide a powerful means with which to promote future-oriented learning because they involve nonverbal, symbolic ways of knowing, thinking and communicating. Suggests that the arts in the emergent curriculum promote central education skills of discovery, pursuit, self-awareness, personal communication, social interaction, perception, skill use, analysis, and critique. (Author/SD)
Descriptors: Art, Art Activities, Art Appreciation, Art Education, Child Development, Creative Activities, Creative Development, Curriculum, Curriculum Development, Developmental Stages, Early Childhood Education, Educational Strategies, Educational Theories, Fine Arts, Foreign Countries, Intellectual Development, Multiple Intelligences, Reggio Emilia Approach
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Australia
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