Solitary play and convergent and divergent thinking skills in preschool children

Early Childhood Research Quarterly

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 22-41

  Lloyd, Bronwen ^a   Howe, Nina ^a  

^a Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

Author keywords

Convergent thinking; Divergent thinking; Solitary play

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037256387     PISSN: 08852006     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0885-2006(03)00004-8     Document Type: Article

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