Finding and making meaning: Young children as musical collaborators

Psychology of Music

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 238-261

  St John, Patricia A ^a  

^a Teachers College Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Community; Early childhood; Flow experience; Musical collaboration; Scaffolding; Vygotsky

Indexed keywords

EID: 61049555629     PISSN: 03057356     EISSN: 17413087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0305735606061854     Document Type: Conference Paper

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