Promoting narrative competence through adult-child joint pretense: Lessons from the Scandinavian educational practice of playworld

Cognitive Development

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 576-590

  Baumer, Sonja ^a   Ferholt, Beth ^a   Lecusay, Robert ^a  

^a Laboratory of Comparative Human Cognition ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Art; Narrative competence; Play; Playworld; Pretense

Indexed keywords

EID: 28244452898     PISSN: 08852014     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cogdev.2005.08.003     Document Type: Article

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