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School Art as a Hybrid Genre: Institutional Contexts for Art Curriculum

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Bresler, L. (2002). School Art as a Hybrid Genre: Institutional Contexts for Art Curriculum. In: Bresler, L., Thompson, C.M. (eds) The Arts in Children’s Lives. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-306-47511-1_15

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