Musical Childhoods: Explorations in the pre-school years

by Aleksandra Acker, Berenice Nyland, Jill Ferris

Musical Childhoods is a culmination of more than a decade of research driven by the fact that music has been neglected in early childhood programs in favour of literacy and numeracy.　　 Recent research has identified a connection between academic performance and musical programs and this has given music a renewed status in many schools.

This book promotes the idea of children's competence in the use of the language of music and argues...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415740053
• ISBN13: 9780415740050
• Release Date: February 2015
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 182 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"