Children's creative collaborations: The importance of friendship when working together on a musical composition

Social Development

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 348-369

  Miell, Dorothy ^a   MacDonald, Raymond ^b  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Friendship; Music; Peer collaboration; Transactional communication

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034344528     PISSN: 0961205X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9507.00130     Document Type: Article

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