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The creation of imaginary worlds : the role of art, magic and dreams in child development
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ISBN: 1283905647 0857004115 9780857004116 1849058520 9781849058520 9781849058520 Year: 2011 Publisher: Philadelphia Jessica Kingsley Publishers

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Alongside the world of everyday reality, the young child develops an imaginary world of child art, make-believe play, daydreams, imaginary friends, fairy tales and magic. This book charts the imaginative development of children, conveying the importance of art-making, pretense play and fantasy in early childhood years, and highlighting the potential that imaginative behaviors hold for cognitive, affective and aesthethic development.

The child's creation of a pictorial world
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ISBN: 1299285279 1135629463 1410609251 9781410609250 9781299285279 080584371X 9780805843712 0805843728 9780805843729 9781135629410 9781135629458 9781135629465 1135629455 Year: 2004 Publisher: Mahwah (N.J.) Erlbaum

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This book places child art within the broader context of children's creative intelligence and intrinsic motivation to invent a pictorial world. It examines the development of drawing and painting from several currently dominant theoretical perspectives. This is followed by an extensive examination of empirical data on the art work of children who are ordinary, talented, emotionally disturbed, and atypically developed due to mental disability or autism. The Child's Creation of a Pictorial World uses a developmental framework that combines theoretical sophistication with rigorous

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