The arts in children's lives : context, culture, and curriculum / edited by Liora Bresler and Christine Marmé Thompson.

Reprinted with corrections: 2003.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword / Laura Chapman -- Prelude / Christine Thompson and Liora Bresler -- I. Context Interlude / Liora Bresler and Christine Thompson -- 1. Children's contextual art knowledge: Local art and school art context comparisons / Karen A. Hamblen -- 2. What's to be learned? Comments on teaching music in the world and teaching world music at home / Bruno Nettl -- 3. Becoming Japanese: Manga, children's drawings, and the construction of national character / Brent Wilson -- 4. musical cultures of children / Patricia Shehan Campbell -- 5. Playing the music: Comparing children's song and dance in Namibian education / Minette Mans -- II. Development Interlude / Christine Thompson and Liora Bresler -- 6. We begin as poets: Conceptual tools and the arts in early childhood / Kieran Egan and Michael Ling -- 7. Constructing an artistic self: A cultural perspective / Daniel J. Walsh -- 8. Early childhood musical development / Graham Welch -- 9. Drawing together: Peer influence in preschool-kindergarten art classes / Christine Thompson -- 10. Fictional worlds and the real world in early childhood drama education / Shifra Schonmann -- III. Curriculum Interlude / Liora Bresler and Christine Thompson -- 11. What we teach is who we are: The stories of our lives / Susan W. Stinson -- 12. School art as a hybrid genre: Institutional contexts for art curriculum / Liora Bresler -- 13. Early childhood literacy education, wakefulness, and the arts / Daniel K. Thompson -- 14. Pleasure, creativity, and the carnivalesque in children's video production / Donna J. Grace and Joseph Tobin -- 15. Music technology and the young child / Peter Webster -- Afterwords / William Ayers.

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