1st Edition

Critical New Perspectives in Early Childhood Music Young Children Engaging and Learning Through Music

By Susan Young Copyright 2018
168 Pages
by Routledge

168 Pages
by Routledge

168 Pages
by Routledge

Exploring and expanding upon current understandings of early childhood music education, this book provides a much-needed response to the rapid social, cultural and technological developments affecting children’s experience of music today. Critical New Perspectives in Early Childhood Music returns to the core question of how children engage, participate and learn through music, and how we... Read more

Preface

Chapter One: Some Windows and a Map: Early Childhood Music in New Times

Chapter Two: Shaky Eggs and Hello! Songs - The View from Childhood Studies

Chapter Three: Bone Pipes and Brain Cells - Biological Perspectives

Chapter Four: Pathways and Pigeon-Holes - The View from Psychology

Chapter Five: Karaoke Kids and Digi-tots - Sociological Perspectives

Chapter Six: Paper Sheep and Camels - The View from Other Places

Afterword

Biography

Susan Young has recently retired from her position as Senior Lecturer at the University of Exeter, UK. She is internationally recognised as a leading authority on early childhood music education.