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Article: Child care in the United States: an opportunity to nurture expressive children. (Early Childhood Arts Education)
- Article from:
- Arts Education Policy Review
- Article date:
- January 1, 1993
- Author:
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Recent decades bear witness to the widespread recognition of the importance of children to our society. We love them as children; we value them as future adults. The field of early childhood education has grown in relevance as we have discovered clues to why, while some children become musical, graceful, and artistic adults, others do not. The banner for arts in early childhood is supported by a growing number of educators in music, dance, the visual arts, and drama who are advocating arts education as an integral part of every child's experience.(1) Those who take care of young children have a golden opportunity to initiate their young charges into the artistic world that ...