TITLE Children's Aesthetics.

Current knowledge and practice relating to young children's aesthetic development and education are reviewed in this state-of-the-art report. Beginning with,a brief section highlighting theoretical problems and approaches to the psychological study of aesthetic response, the review subsequently describes three common strategies used in aesthetic research: the general methodology for experimental aesthetics, tests of aesthetic sensitivity, and the uctured interview method. The third and largest section of the paper reviews a selection of arts studies concerning aesthetic development and education. The studies reviewed are organized into three clusters of research activity ( (1) developmental studies emphasizing age-related trends in aesthetic response, (2) studies concerned primarily with individual and group differences in aesthetic response (excepting age), and (3) deliberate attempts t