Integrating Cantonese Nursery Rhymes Into Early Childhood Music Classrooms: A Lesson for Learning Music, Language, and Culture

2021 ◽  
pp. 104837132110262
Author(s):  
Yingying Pan
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Music Education ◽  
Cultural Awareness ◽  
Lesson Plan ◽  
Music Educators ◽  
World Music ◽  
Language And Culture ◽  
Early Childhood Music ◽  
Chinese Music ◽  
Music Classrooms

As cultural diversity is increasingly celebrated in classrooms, multicultural learning in music education has become more essential and meaningful. Therefore, this article emphasizes the integration of Cantonese nursery rhymes into early childhood music classrooms by providing a detailed lesson plan and some teaching suggestions. This effort aims to enhance students’ cultural awareness and knowledge of world music by integrating Chinese music elements into general music learning. It also serves to provide inspiration and suggests possibilities for music educators who wish to incorporate multicultural elements in music education.

Early childhood fieldwork for music education majors

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 199-215 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christa R. Kuebel
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Music Education ◽  
Music Educators ◽  
Critical Examination ◽  
Education Majors ◽  
Musical Settings ◽  
Pedagogical Content ◽  
Early Childhood Music ◽  
Music Education Majors ◽  
Preparedness To Teach

Fieldwork experiences for undergraduate music education majors provide opportunities to gain pedagogical content knowledge as well as a deeper understanding of child development and musical behaviour. Early childhood music fieldwork experiences are vital to preservice music educators in order to gain insight into the specific needs of young learners and increase preparedness to teach in a variety of musical settings. Critical examination of the fieldwork opportunities provided to undergraduate music education majors in the early childhood music setting could benefit all preservice music educators. This article will describe one early childhood fieldwork placement and its impacts on the preparation of three undergraduate music education majors. Implications related to the importance of early childhood music education fieldwork experiences for preservice music educators are discussed.

Active music listening: Promoting music and movement in early childhood music education

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 211-223 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tiago Madalozzo ◽  
Vivian Dell’ Agnolo Barbosa Madalozzo
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Music Education ◽  
Lesson Plan ◽  
Music Appreciation ◽  
Music Listening ◽  
Music Learning ◽  
Early Childhood Music ◽  
Musical Structures ◽  
Early Childhood Music Education ◽  
Music Class

This article’s premise is that listening can be an engaging and important way for children to interact with music, using movement and their entire bodies, leading to music learning. We present the concept of active music listening defined by different authors, as a strategy for working with music appreciation involving a completely active attitude of the listener ‐ linking a cognitive process of interpretation with the fundamental use of movement to reflect musical aspects of a determined piece. In the first section, we propose that listening is an important part of music learning, examining Swanwick’s and Boal-Palheiros and Wuytack’s works, presenting active music listening as an appreciation mode that involves high levels of attention, intention and activity from the listener. In the section that follows, we introduce active music listening as a part of the music class, reporting Zagonel’s as well as Wuytack and Boal-Palheiros’ approaches, defining musical structures that can be activated with listening exercises by more than twenty ways of activation. We discuss our way of locating these exercises on a music lesson plan. The mentioned strategies are illustrated in four ideas of active music listening exercises directed to children, selected from our daily practices. Finally, we discuss the main concepts and practices presented, with concluding remarks and implications for early childhood music education.

Assessing Music in Early Childhood

2019 ◽  
pp. 444-476
Author(s):  
Maria Runfola
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Music Education ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Student Assessment ◽  
Deep Understanding ◽  
Children's Music ◽  
National Network ◽  
Music Assessment ◽  
Early Childhood Music ◽  
Utilitarian Value

In this chapter, pros and cons of assessing young children’s music skills and content knowledge are explored. An integrative literature review is included as well as a thematic review lending support to core themes. Several reasons were identified as to the importance of promoting student assessment as children participate in early childhood music. Use of music assessments in the classroom and for research should consider practices consistent with musical age as well as chronological age. Increased recognition of the importance of music in total development of the child supports need for effective early childhood assessment systems especially by the music education research community as they continue to gather evidence regarding the utilitarian value of music in early childhood. Researchers need to be aware of environmental factors that may impact early music learning and cognizant of current best practices in music education for early childhood. Researcher-developed criterion measures often are not investigated for quality characteristics, and thus rigorous guidelines for such criterion measures are needed. It appears there are no definitive policy or ethics statements regarding early childhood music assessment but both should be considered vital priorities for the profession. Most likely only those scholars with profound interest in assessment and teachers with deep understanding of the role of assessment in teaching and learning will volunteer to respond. Everything developed in such a national network will be useful, providing we start with clearly defined, intended outcomes and then develop assessments to document student attainment of those musical outcomes.

Trans Voices Speak: Suggestions from Trans Educators about Working with Trans Students

2021 ◽  
Vol 108 (1) ◽  
pp. 50-56
Author(s):  
Christopher Cayari ◽  
Felix A. Graham ◽  
Emma Joy Jampole ◽  
Jared O’Leary
Keyword(s):  
Identity Development ◽  
Music Education ◽  
Music Educators ◽  
Gender Nonconforming ◽  
The Past ◽  
Music Making ◽  
Trans People ◽  
The Social ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Music Classrooms

The social climate in the past decade has seen a rise in visibility of trans students in music classrooms and ensembles, leading to a need for scholarship on how to serve this growing population. Literature is being published to address this topic; however, the lack of scholarship by trans educators might lead many music educators to conclusions and practices that can be, at the very least, discouraging to some trans students and may disrupt their learning experiences. This article was written by four educators who identify as part of the trans community (a genderfluid and gender-nonconforming individual, a trans man, a trans woman, and a gender-nonbinary person) to fill this gap in the literature by illuminating some of the pitfalls inherent in the lack of discussion on (and by) trans people in music education. In addition, this article provides five actionable suggestions for working with trans students: (1) Learn about the trans community, (2) inspect your language and biases, (3) represent the diversity of trans people in your teaching, (4) promote healthy music-making and identity development, and (5) model allyship.

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