Pulling the river: The interactions of local and global influences in chinese early childhood music education

Arts Education Policy Review

Volumn 109, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 9-16

  Chen Hafteck, Lily ^a   Xu, Zhuoya ^b  

^a KEAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NANJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

China; Culture; Early childhood; Policy

Indexed keywords

EID: 78049349395     PISSN: 10632913     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3200/AEPR.109.3.9-16     Document Type: Article

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