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International Journal of Music in Early Childhood 17.2 is out now!

Intellect is pleased to announce that International Journal of Music in Early Childhood 17.2 is out now!

 

This issue contains two original research reports, as well as the three keynote addresses delivered at the 10th Conference of the European Network of Music Educators and Researchers of Young Children (EuNet MERYC), which took place in February 2022.

 

For more information about the journal and issue click here>>

https://www.intellectbooks.com/international-journal-of-music-in-early-childhood

 

Aims & Scope

 

The International Journal of Music in Early Childhood (IJMEC) 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.

 

The International Journal of Music in Early Childhood is published in partnership with the Early Childhood Music & Movement Association.

 

Issue 17.2

 

Editorial

 

Conceptualizing childhood in scholarship and discourse

DIANA R. DANSEREAU

 

Keynotes Addresses

 

Young children and artistic behaviour: Theoretical considerations for exploration, communication and improvisation, and practical implications

MICHAEL DARTSCH

 

The aesthetics of simplicity: An artistic approach to childhood and music making

TERESA LEONHARD

 

‘The sounds turn somersaults and the harmonica is mourning…’: The healing effects of music making

SANDRA LUTZ HOCHREUTENER

 

Articles

 

Music education in public nurseries of Greece

SPYRIDOULA EFTHYMIOU

 

Observations of a child’s movement response to music and their interaction with a musical toy robot

MARJU RAJU