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Kinderculture in the art classroom: Early childhood art and the mediation of culture
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Studies in Art Education
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January 1, 2003
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Kinderculture1 in the Art Classroom: Early Childhood Art and the Mediation of Culture
Contemporary children encounter far more unfiltered information than did children of previous generations, whose unmediated and direct experiences with people, places, and things served as primary sources of knowledge. Thus, when children are given the choice of what they will draw, the full range of influences shaping their knowledge of the world materializes on the drawing page, as images supplied by commercial culture vie for space with the traditional subjects of child art. Children's choice of imagery determines the form and content of their drawings from the time they begin to produce graphic ...