Synopses & Reviews
Learn to teach music to children with MUSIC IN CHILDHOOD: FROM PRESCHOOL THROUGH THE ELEMENTARY GRADES with accompanying audio CD! This practical music text presents contemporary theories and practices of music education including strategies for developing pitch, vocal, rhythmic, instrumental, listening, movement and creative responses in children. The use of practical strategies, imaginative scenarios, and comprehensive examples from worldwide musical resources, inspire the best possible teaching methods. Numerous lesson plans and curricula, review questions, critical thinking questions, projects, and references are found throughout and help you prepare for your teaching career.
Review
"MUSIC IN CHILDHOOD is the most comprehensive publication I have seen for Music Education students. The inclusion of philosophical, pedagogical, and practical information makes it a valuable resource."
Synopsis
Learn to teach music to children with MUSIC IN CHILDHOOD: MULTIMEDIA UPDATE, an inspirational and informative text that features practical strategies, imaginative scenarios, and comprehensive examples to help students prepare for their careers in music education.
Synopsis
As inspirational as it is informative, this text combines the best research and practical knowledge to give music education students the necessary tools to take to their future classroom. This comprehensive text presents contemporary theories and practices of music education including strategies for developing pitch, vocal, rhythmic, instrumental, listening, movement and creative responses in children. It includes chapters on technology, multiculturalism, motivation and management, special learners, assessment, and curriculum integration and development.
About the Author
Patricia Shehan Campbell is a professor of music at the University of Washington. She is a certified teacher of the Dalcroze eurhythmics and has lectured and published widely on music, children, and pedagogy. She is author of TEACHING MUSIC GLOBALLY, SONGS IN THEIR HEADS, and LESSONS FROM THE WORLD.Carol Scott-Kassner is a writer and consultant in Music Education. An expert in the musical growth of young children, she has written and spoken extensively on that topic. She is co-author of WORLD OF MUSIC and the MUSIC CONNECTION and MAKING MUSIC series of textbooks for grades K, 1, and 2.
Table of Contents
"This text does an excellent job of presenting facts about each approach in a comparative way--it is organized to build students' knowledge by highlighting contrasts and similarities of many approaches at once. I find this to be the text's biggest strength. It does not favor one approach over another, but it creates an image of elementary music education in a global sense where many teaching approaches exist and are often intertwined. Compatible and incompatible philosophies and teaching tools are identified. This provides a sense of perspective that students and beginning teachers must have if they are to find their own most effective teaching manner and potentially specialize in one or more approach." "MUSIC IN CHILDHOOD is the most comprehensive publication I have seen for Music Education students. The inclusion of philosophical, pedagogical, and practical information makes it a valuable resource."