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T1 The Active Musical Room: Fostering sensorimotor discoveries and musical creativity in toddlers
A1 Peñalba Acítores, Alicia
A1 Martínez Álvarez, Lucio
A1 Schiavio, Andrea
K1 Musical development
K1 Musical creativity
K1 Music education
K1 Embodied cognition
K1 Early infancy
K1 6203.06 Música, Musicología
K1 5801.07 Métodos Pedagógicos
AB In the current study, we investigate the implementation of a musical workshop inan early childhood education setting. The workshop is based on a shared spacefor musical creativity (the Active Musical Room) comprising six different musicallyrelevant objects, which toddlers were free to explore and play with. Inspired byDelalande’s Pedagogie musicale d’éveil, the workshop was facilitated by a teacherwho developed strategies to help the toddlers’ musical engagement. Data sourcesfor this case study included semistructured interviews with the teacher and schoolprincipal, video recordings of each session, field notes and observations made bynonparticipant observers, and questionnaires completed by parents of the toddlers.Categories concerning three interrelated dimensions of interest emerged from ouranalyses: the decisions of the teacher, the affordances of the objects in the room, andthe creative potential of each toddler. Although generalizations cannot be proposedgiven the nature of the study, our results point to the recursive interplay betweenthe exploratory drive of the toddlers, their sensorimotor ability, and the constraintsafforded by the environment in which they are situated (i.e., teachers, objects).
PB Sage
SN 1945-0095
YR 2021
FD 2021
LK https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/68057
UL https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/68057
LA eng
NO Journal of Research in Music Education, 2021, vol. 69, n. 2, p. 128-151
NO Producción Científica
DS UVaDOC
RD 11-jul-2024