Artistic Development: The three essential spheres

Aesthetic Science: Connecting Minds, Brains, and Experience

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Sheridan, Kimberly M ^a   Gardner, Howard ^b  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Artistic development; Child development; Digital participation; Evolutionary accounts

Indexed keywords

EID: 84883560465     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199732142.003.0063     Document Type: Chapter

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