Perspectives: A Publication of the early Childhood Music and Movement Association

Perspectives: A Publication of the early Childhood Music and Movement Association


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    • The Musical Behaviors of Young Children

    Author Claudia Gluschankof Volume 6: Number 4 - Fall 2011 View This Issue

    Musical Behaviors of Young Children:

    Perceptions and Constructions of Undergraduate

    and Graduate Early Childhood Practitioners

     

    Claudia Gluschankof, Ph.D.

    Levinsky College of Education

    Tel-Aviv, Israel

     

    Introduction

    Music and young children have been studied extensively from a variety of research paradigms.  Researchers’ use of observation tools in qualitative studies offers us a clear idea of how children behave musically, mainly in Western educational settings.  Moorhead and Pond (1942/1978) published the first study of this kind almost 70 years ago.  It could be supposed that practice is based on research evidence, and such evidence lies at the core of the early childhood music education courses I teach for both undergraduate and graduate students in early childhood education (ECE),…

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