Language: English

Language: English

ISSN: 0012-2807

Abstract/Notes: This is a book review of the book 'The Science Behind the Genius' by Angeline Stoll Lillard

Language: English

DOI: 10.1016/j.appdev.2005.12.012

ISSN: 0193-3973

Language: English

ISSN: 0090-4244

Abstract/Notes: While a growing body of research reveals the beneficial effects of music on education performance the value of music in educating the young child is not being recognized. If research of students in the school system indicates that learning through the arts can benefit the ‘whole’ child, that math achievement scores are significantly higher for those students studying music, and if Montessori education produces a more academically accomplished child, then what is the potential for the child when Montessori includes an enriched music curriculum? The decision to support music cannot be made without knowing music’s effect on academic achievement and its contribution to a student’s education. This study was an experimental design using a two-group post-test comparison. A sample of 200 Montessori students aged 3-5 years-old were selected and randomly placed in one of two groups. The experimental treatment was an “in-house” music enriched Montessori program and children participated in 3 half-hour sessions weekly, for 6 months. The instrument used to measure mathematical achievement was the Test of Early Mathematics Ability-3 (Barody & Ginsburg) to determine if the independent variable, music instruction had any effect on students’ math test scores. The results showed that subjects who received music enriched Montessori instruction had significantly higher math scores and when compared by age group, 3 year-old students had higher scores than either the 4 year-old or 5 year-old children. This study shows that an arts-rich curriculum has a significant positive effect on young students academic achievement.This comprehensive research presents developmentally appropriate early education curriculum for children from 2 through 6 years old and addresses some of the most compelling questions about early experience, such as how important music is to early brain development. Contemporary theories and practices of music education including strategies for developing pitch, vocal, rhythmic, instrumental, listening, movement and creative responses in children are presented. It explores the interrelationship of music and academic development in children, and demonstrates how music can enhance and accelerate the learning process. This study combines the best of research and practical knowledge to give teachers the necessary tools to educate tomorrow's musicians. It is essential reading for all students and teachers of young children.

Language: English

DOI: 10.21977/D93110059

ISSN: 1932-7528

Abstract/Notes: 陈鹤琴教学法与蒙台梭利教学法是对20世纪中西幼儿教育影响深远的教育理论.前者推进了中国幼儿教育的现代化,后者则引领世界幼儿教育进入一个新的时代.本文从理论来源、时代目标、基本特色及其历史影响等四个角度对陈鹤琴教学法与蒙台梭利教学法作出了初步比较.其目的在于理论上开拓视野,同时,也是对目下教育界引进外国教育模式过热,而对传统教育文化存在一定程度漠视的反思.

Language: Chinese

ISSN: 1672-5905

Language: English

ISSN: 0012-2807

Language: English

ISSN: 0012-2807

Abstract/Notes: Concurrent to the present reduction of arts education in mainstream American schools, many evolutionary-minded scholars are asserting that artistic behavior contributes significantly to cognition, has been advantageous for our survival, and satisfies psychological needs that are biologically embedded. Supported by long-term and wide-spread art making among the human species and the spontaneous artful behaviors of children, this cross-disciplinary study explores the possibility that artful behaviors represent an inherent part of human nature. Based on an ethological understanding of art (that is, as a behavior rather than an object), this research uses an interpretivist lens and phenomenological design with the ultimate goal of exploring how such proclivities might inform educational policy and practice. Data collection methods include a combination of observation, participant observation, and teacher interviews in a state-funded pre-kindergarten classroom.

Language: English

DOI: 10.21977/D97110002

ISSN: 1932-7528

Abstract/Notes: L’histoire de l’autisme connaît une actualité brûlante qui requiert l’attention partagée du clinicien. Cette historiographie complexe poursuit son écriture de l’autisme en cascades à mesure du travail d’archives et de l’analyse critique des textes originaux. Se précisent ainsi les concepts sur lesquels s’appuie la clinique des auteurs dès les origines de la psychiatrie de l’enfant. Les débats scientifiques s’en nourrissent à chaque époque afin d’aboutir à un état de l’art renouvelé où l’autisme reste une construction conceptuelle organisatrice de la psychiatrie de l’enfant et de l’adolescent. [The history of autism involves a burning issue that requires attention from clinicians. This complicated historiography continues the writing on cascading autism alongside archival work and textual criticism. Since the origins of child psychiatry, theoreticians’ practice has leaned on even-sharper clinical concepts, which have fed scientific debates over time, resulting in a renewed state of the art. Autism remains an organizing conceptual entity of child and adolescent psychiatry in statu nascendi.]

Language: French

DOI: 10.3917/jpe.020.0189

ISSN: 0994-7949