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This core text is written for Early Childhood Education courses in Music and Movement, and the Creative Arts and Expression.
By balancing research coverage and theory with applied practice, this best-selling text covers the most current and comprehensive of topics while encouraging teachers to not only inspire young children to move with music, but be inspired themselves.
The seventh edition presents a comprehensive and up-to-date survey of professional research while continuing to provide links between theory and practice. Edwards encourages teachers and caregivers to attend to the importance of research and contemporary thought regarding music and movement education. At the same time, the narrative frames theoretical ideas in meaningful ways for the adult who has chosen teaching as a profession. The songs, ideas, suggestions, and music and movement concepts included are time-tested. Parents, teachers, student teachers, caregivers, and students have aided in compiling and assessing the contents of this edition. Musical concepts and activities appropriate for each age and grade level have been included to accompany some of the songs and rhythms. Movement and dance concepts are also presented in age-specific content.
List of contents
Chapter 1: Beginning the Music and Movement Journey
Chapter 2: Music and Movement for Young Children
Chapter 3: Music and Movement for Children with Special Needs
Chapter 4: Music and Movement for Infants and Toddlers
Chapter 5: Music and Movement for 3-Year-Olds
Chapter 6: Music and Movement for 4-Year-Olds
Chapter 7: Music and Movement for Kindergarten and Early Primary
Chapter 8: Music and Movement: An Interdisciplinary Approach
Appendix A: Music Terminology and Approaches to Music Education
Appendix B: Resources for Teachers in EArly Childhood Classrooms
Appendix C: Learning Autoharp and Guitar for the Classroom
Appendix D: Instruments for the Classroom
About the author
Linda Carol Edwards is a professor emerita of early childhood at the College of Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina, where she taught both graduate and undergraduate courses in the visual and performing arts. Her degrees include a BA from Pembroke State University and an MEd and EdD from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Before moving to the college level, she taught kindergarten for 12 years in the public schools of North Carolina.
Dr. Edwards is the author of The Creative Arts: A Process Approach for Teachers and Children (Pearson/Merrill), which is now in its fifth edition. She has been published in Young Children, Science and Children, Journal of Early Education and Family Review, Dimensions in Early Childhood, and the Kappa Delta Pi Record. She also serves on the advisory board of Annual Editions: Early Childhood Education. In addition, Dr. Edwards’s experience allowed her to create undergraduate and graduate programs in early childhood education that have received NCATE/NAEYC approval.
As an advocate for arts education for young children, she takes the opportunity to present at local, state, and national conferences about the importance of the visual and performing arts in the lives of young children.
Summary
By balancing research coverage and theory with applied practice, Music and Movement: A Way of Life for the Young Child, Seventh Edition,gives the most comprehensive and current treatment to the topic of music and movement while encouraging teachers to not only inspire young children to move with music but be inspired themselves to join our youngest musicians and dancers in the fun.
