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International Journal of Music in Early Childhood 15.1 is now available!

Special Issue: Papers from the MERYC 2019 Conference, 'Counterpoints of the Senses: Bodily Experiences in Musical Learning'

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Aims & Scope

The International Journal of Music in Early Childhood is an interdisciplinary forum directed at the empirical study of music in early childhood, or pre-birth to age 8. The journal welcomes research-based contributions from fields, such as music education, music therapy, community music, psychology, ethnomusicology, anthropology, sociology, history, philosophy, childhood studies and social work, that are concerned with diverse aspects relating to music in the lives of young children.

Issue 15.1

Editorial

LUC NIJS AND CLAUDIA GLUSCHANKOF

Articles

Beware the neuromyths! A critical discussion on the ‘brainification’ of early childhood music

SUSAN YOUNG

Moving towards music: Viewing early years musical engagement through the lenses of movement, interaction, motivation, agency, identity and context

ALEXANDRA LAMONT

Ways to enhance embodied learning in Dalcroze-inspired music education

MARJA-LEENA JUNTUNEN

Decolonizing the knowledges of young children through the temporal arts

CHARLOTTE ARCULUS

‘When the music ends it stays in the brain’: Agency and embodiment in young children’s engagements with recorded music in preschool

CLAUDIA GLUSCHANKOF

Learning words in a second language while cycling and listening to children’s songs:

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LAURA E. HAHN, MAAIKE TEN BUUREN, TINEKE M. SNIJDERS AND PAULA FIKKERT

Conference Review

European Network of Music Educators and Researchers of Young Children (EuNet MERYC 2019): Counterpoints of the senses – Bodily experiences in musical learning

SOPHIE FOX, KATHLEEN FOSTER AND MADDIE BROAD