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Art As A Mediating Tool: Children And Learning In A Music And Arts-Based After School Program, Claudia Saldana
Art As A Mediating Tool: Children And Learning In A Music And Arts-Based After School Program, Claudia Saldana
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This study explores the experiences of primarily Latina/o children with learning music in a Music and Arts-Based Program (MABP) the context of a low-income neighborhood on the U.S- Mexico border. This year-long ethnographic study was conducted in an after-school art program in the Rio Grande Elementary School, in a low-income neighborhood located within one-mile of the U.S.-Mexico border. The purpose of the study is to understand how music and art can be used as a mediating tool for children to construct social and cognitive learning within a culturally diverse community, thus, enhancing the social environment in which they interact. The …