“The arts are a valuable educational tool. Arts integration can create new and meaningful connections to lesson content, expand students’ understanding of other cultures, and help to promote the development of healthy cultural identities”
(p.424). Purnell, P.G, Ali, P, Begum, N, & Cater, M. “Windows, Bridges, and Mirrors: Building Culturally Responsive Early Childhood Classrooms through the Integration of Literacy and the Arts .” Early Childhood Education Journal, June 2007