Talk:Music education for young children

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Is this really an encyclopedic subject? J Lorraine 10:57, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

It shouldn't be. It's shameless promotion of content masked like factual information. Rickyar 16:15, 16 August 2007 (UTC)

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This article is incredibly bad. The first citation occurs 90% of the way through the article. All previous information contains no citations, and incorrect grammar. I am a bit of a newbie to this, but I am marking this article for Spam and/or deletion if it is not fixed with more citations from reputable sources. In addition, the article makes deductions from statistical correlation as if they were causal relationships.--Xuwen (talk) 22:39, 18 December 2008 (UTC)

According to the lulzy article: "Children who are exposed to music before the age of seven years old are ten times as likely to succeed in the workplace and achieve up to 200 points higher than normal students on their SAT scores. Children receiving piano instruction before the age of seven are also more likely to continue with general hygiene such as brushing teeth, showering regularly, and consistently using deodorant throughout their lives." This is yet more cancer on my Wikipedia! Alternatively, the same factors responsible for intelligence are correlated with parental interest in engaging children in activities such as hygiene and musical education. I will rewrite this part of the article in a dry, unbiased sense (no rainbows, puppies, kittens, or gumdrops) - after which point, either someone will revert to the propaganda, or an until-now-silent Wikipedian will demand citations. 16:57, 4 May 2010 (UTC)~ —Preceding unsigned comment added by 152.14.192.32 (talk)

  I think that covers it.

Plans for this article

Hi, my name is Amy and I will be editing and adding to this page as part of my Intercultural Communications class. I will be focusing on improving the article by adding more information on:

• World Music being used in young children's education
• Current trends in music education
• Benefits and areas of improvement

Hopefully I can add more information to make this page more useful. I will be adding more citations as well. These are some of the sources I will be using.

• Pascale, L. (2011). Sharing Songs: A Powerful Tool for Teaching Tolerance and Honoring Culture. General Music Today, 25(1), 4-7.

• Knapp, D. H. (2011). The Inclusive World of Music: Students With Disabilities and Multiculturalism. General Music Today, 25(1), 41-44.

• Reimer, B. (2012). Another Perspective: Struggling toward Wholeness in Music Education. Music Educators Journal, 99(2), 25-29.

• Bartolome, S. J. (2011). Beyond Guided Listening: Exploring World Musics With Classroom Instruments. General Music Today, 24(3), 28-33.

Amyhallstrom (talk) 17:50, 3 April 2013 (UTC)

Afghan project

I removed the following as excessive detail about one project. This kind of praise can be made about thousands of music-teaching initiatives. The idea of cultural understanding as a benefit of music education is the main takeaway from this story, and that idea is already in the article. Cheers, Clayoquot (talk | contribs) 04:39, 7 January 2018 (UTC)

The Afghan Children's Songbook Project is a project in the United States focused on preserving and returning traditional Afghan songs, eradicated by the Taliban. This project aims to raise awareness about the importance of learning traditional songs, and of the role they can play in teaching tolerance and cultural understanding, for a group of third to fifth graders in Connecticut. The students learned firsthand about bias and prejudice, and some students shifted their initial beliefs and gained a better cultural understanding of the Afghan people.

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