Teaching art versus teaching taste: What art teachers can learn from looking at a cross-cultural evaluation of children's art

Poetics

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 331-350

  Pariser, David ^a   Van Den Berg, Axel ^b  

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

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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EID: 23844516112     PISSN: 0304422X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-422X(01)00032-8     Document Type: Article

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