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Peer reviewedPeterson, Brenda – NAMTA Journal, 1999
Discusses young teenagers' adoption of animal personas in their creative writing classes, and the way these classroom activities follow Montessori principles. Considers both the role of imagination in the animal identification and the psychological and pedagogical significance of the underlying development of unconscious kinship with Earth and its…
Descriptors: Animals, Child Development, Creative Development, Creative Writing
