About 30 years ago developmental psychologists could not believe it when they were
offered proof that newborn infants express states of mind and respond like persons …

Die Gesangskünste von Vögeln haben Künstler und Denker vielfach zu Parallelen mit den
menschlichen Künsten angeregt. Erst Charles Darwin jedoch hat solchen Parallelen eine …

“These inspirational findings confirm the highest values of democratic education and offer an
inspiring vision of what it truly means to put students first. The authors not only describe the …

An infant's early contact with music affects its future development in a broad sense, including
the development of musical aptitude. Contact with the mother's voice, both prenatally and …

In this article we review the history of the terms and ideas that have been used to
conceptualize Paleolithic art since the end of the 19th century. Between 1900 and 1970 …

The sustainability discourse has largely played out in the domains of natural sciences and
technology, with recent contributions from the social and political sciences. These …

In times of rapid change the Arts have been shown to contribute through an array of
processes to a range of outcomes that improve social and emotional health. While this …

Observing young children find and make meaning by manipulating and transforming teacher-
presented music material provides a unique lens to view collaborative efforts. Collective …

The Contracts of Fiction reconnects our fictional worlds to the rest of our lives. Countering
the contemporary tendency to dismiss works of imagination as enjoyable but …

In this paper, we present a review of research on the role of traditional and indigenous forms
of visual artistic practice in promoting physical health and psychosocial well-being …