Studying meaning in children's drawings

Journal of Early Childhood Literacy

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 430-452

  Hopperstad, Marit Holm ^a  

^a Queen Maud's College of Early Childhood Education   (Norway)

Author keywords

drawing; meaning making; visual literacy

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650699649     PISSN: 14687984     EISSN: 17412919     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1468798410383251     Document Type: Article

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