This article offers a short commentary on the “state of play” in early childhood music
education research to accompany the articles published in this special issue. It provides an …

Early childhood education is a field that includes practitioners in nursery schools,
elementary schools, Head Start centers, child care centers, family homes, and other …

Young children learn through play. This has long been acknowledged in the writings of
educational theorists dating back as far as Rousseau, Pestalozzi, and Froebel and is …

An Integrated Play-Based Curriculum for Young Children, Second Edition explores how to
integrate play across the curriculum, hel** teachers develop their early childhood …

The study reported in this paper explores parents' musical practices with children under the
age of five in the home environment. A survey was sent to parents in three preschools …

A Russian Dolls type model (Fig. 14.1, cf. Hargreaves & North, 1997; BERA, 2001; Welch &
Hallam, 2004) has been adopted to conceptualize and make sense of key sources within the …

Young children's speech and communication skills have been in the spotlight in recent
years, often in association with parental socio-economic status and children's 'readiness' for …

In this article, I present a comprehensive analysis of peer-reviewed research articles
published in English between 2000 and 2017 regarding active music making in early …

The purpose of this research was to explore factors influencing musical play of preschool
children in home and class settings through the use of video sharing by parents and teacher …

Pirkko Paananen selvittää musiikkikasvatuksen väitöskirjatyössään, kuinka 6-11-vuotiaat
lapset hahmottavat tonaalisen musiikin perusrakenteita improvisoidessaan omia rytmejään …