Children & the Arts
Judy Rubin (22 minutes, 1973)

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This tape shows activities in all of the arts--music, dance, art, and drama--as they took place in a Creative Arts Program for young children in poor neighborhoods, with an emphasis on the mental health values common to all art forms. Examples are given in each of the arts of: the naturalness of these activities for children, the ease of spontaneous creativity, the need for practice and control in order to achieve mastery, the feeling of well-being which accompanies mastery, and the multicultural social benefits inherent to participation in the arts with other people. more...

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