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To Cite this Article: Kipouropoulou, E. (2020). Children’s Drawings and the Grammar of Visual Design: Pedagogical Application of the Depiction of the “Other” in Pre-school Children’s Drawings. Multilingual Academic Journal of Education and Social Sciences, 8(1), 131–150.
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