Overview
- Explores the role of adults in children’s lives in co-constructing musical identities
- Argues the case for music in early childhood and the important role music plays in human activity
- Presents a range of musical experiences designed for children in a care and education setting
- Focuses on the relationship between the adults’ own knowledge and teaching and the ideas they bring to their pedagogy and research
Part of the book series: International Perspectives on Early Childhood Education and Development (CHILD, volume 33)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- role of adults in promoting music in early years
- music as a source of well-being for children
- a playworld approach
- symbolic interactionism and activity theory
- co-constructing musical identities
- pre-service teachers engage children through music
- Music as social action in early childhood
- Early childhood music in Serbia
- Young children, music and Learning Stories
- Early musical experiences in China
- Music as social action in early childhood
- Young children and music advocacy
- Musicians/educators and young children
- Music as a pedagogical tool in early childhood
- Music and emotional connection with young children
- Early childhood preservice teachers’ music experiences
- Young children and music composition
About this book
This book focuses on the importance and role of adults in promoting music in the early years. Designed to promote the idea of the value of music in the early childhood years, the research discussed in this book explores the experiences of a number of adults working with children from birth to age 8.
The initiatives discussed in this work all focus on adults who have encouraged the development of musical identities ranging from music in the home, to musical play in the preschool years, preparing a performance with children, and programs for disadvantaged groups that use music as a communicative tool.
Each chapter will start with a description of the particular setting and the protagonists’ specific skills and interests and how they came to be working with young children. Themes for the chapters have emerged from the videos and interviews conducted and consist of both reflective and affective experience. The themes include musical background, the adults' own stories, theories of childhood, and pedagogy and philosophy.
Reviews
“.. The strongest aspect is its primary idea – the role of adults in children’s musical lives. The diverse cultural contexts – Serbia, Australia, and Chinese students in Australia – is also a strength.” (Susan Young, University of Exeter, UK)
“.. The use of Vygotskian and neo-Vygotskian theories as underlying frameworks that support all chapters is the strongest aspect of this manuscript. I also appreciated how grounded in practice this work is.” (Beatriz Ilari, USC Thornton School of Music, Los Angeles, CA, USA)
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Aleksandra Acker is a musician, lecturer and researcher, with an expertise in early/primary education, early childhood music and traditional music of the Balkans. She has conducted and published a number of collaborative studies, such as book – Musical Childhoods: Explorations in the pre-school years. She is an advocate for music and is a Music Council Australia Councillor where she represents Early Childhood Music Education. Aleksandra wants to see music as an integral part of mainstream curriculum and treated as one of the languages of childhood. Aleksandra is the founder, artistic director and vocalist of musical ensemble Anja & Zlatna. She researchers, develops and performs traditional melodies from the Balkans and beyond, fused with the structural architecture of baroque. This accomplished ensemble has performed for ABC Sunday Live, Melbourne Recital Centre and Aleksandra introduced a community initiative series 'Music without borders' conducting humanitarian concerts.
Berenice is an adjunct professor at RMIT in the School of Education. Berenice has been interested in music for most of her life and in working with children and music since commencing teaching many years ago. She has taught music to vocational education child study students and as a university academic became a researcher of young children and their music. She has published widely in the area of young children and music and in recent years has extended her interest to young children and the arts as a language. She has presently co-authored a book (in press) titled “A vocabulary of images”. This is an historical examination of Child Art in Australia.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Adult Perspectives on Children and Music in Early Childhood
Authors: Aleksandra Acker, Berenice Nyland
Series Title: International Perspectives on Early Childhood Education and Development
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-57698-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-57697-4Published: 02 October 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-57700-1Published: 03 October 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-57698-1Published: 01 October 2020
Series ISSN: 2468-8746
Series E-ISSN: 2468-8754
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 163
Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations, 4 illustrations in colour
Topics: Early Childhood Education, Creativity and Arts Education, Cross Cultural Psychology, Music, Arts