On elementary education of infants and young children's thinking about music

Summary: the growth of Music Education for children is important. Has been demonstrated to enhance Music can help the human cognitive system, improve emotional intelligence, enhance sensorimotor system, enhanced stress-response system, enhance memory system, which fully describes the Music Education in a wide range of value of educating people in recent years, with the ability and the zero-year-old and infant Education, practice and theory in depth, infants and young children to break the concept of ignorance, incompetence of the old, infants and early childhood Education has been more and more attention This paper look at infants and young children in the status of Music Education after the Enlightenment, made Music for infants and young children for elementary education of the three methods, namely, listening, communication, and rhythmic gymnastics while in infants and young children for elementary education in music should pay attention to the problem also be described.

Keywords: infants, music enlightenment, education
Received 2010 -11-19
Author: Ruan Ting, East China Normal University, a lecturer in pre-school, pre-doctoral graduate student, Song Jimmy, Shandong Yingcai Associate Professor, East China Normal University pre-doctoral students. (Shanghai / 200 062
Music in the child's life has very important significance. The famous writer Victor Hugo once said: "Open the treasure house of human wisdom are three keys', one digital, one is text, there is a note." [1] with the times and technological advances, people understand the value of music education also tends to be more scientific and profound. Music has been proven to help enhance the human cognitive system, improve emotional intelligence, enhance sensorimotor system, enhanced stress-response system, enhance memory system, which fully shows the wide range of music education in the value of educating people [2] Baby Early childhood is a person came into the world on the first few years of life, in their case, all things novel, Life is full of the contents of education in recent years, with the ability and the zero-year-old and infant education depth study of theory and practice, infant incompetent ignorance to break the old ideas, baby nursery education has been more and more attention has been paid.

A status of infants and young children music, elementary education
Infant music can affect elementary education the developing brain of children and improve their ability to learn, to help logic and abstract thinking, memory and creative Development, this view has been more and more recognition and support. [ 3] in infants and early childhood education, elementary education has been increasingly highlighted music together.

Currently, in Europe and other developed countries, infant music elementary education as an important research topic, more attention has been based on the theory of the previous mentioned research results convinced, Georgia Gov. Zell Miller has made a stunning proposal: the state budget as pArt of a plan, come up with $ 105,000, so that all newborns in the state (about 100,000 each year) discharged home, to bring a classical music compact discs, or a classical music tape.

Again, Britain is to carry out "one to one music program", this project aims to summarize the Development of children under two years for educational practice. "Musical one plan" trying to baby music on the grounds occupied by the enemy of the latest applications to educational practice in helping parents and carers of a more appropriate method of education is planned first asked to collect information, including parents, daily musical activities, live music, the attitude of the family, teachers, teaching methods, etc. On this basis, the application of how music to the age of two children's daily lives, teachers must build trust with parents to form pArtnerships with each other agree: both the teacher and must be mutually agreed to find suitable mode of education and family-related type of flexible working for music teachers occupational requirement for the challenges.

Again, the Australian researchers studied the connection between mother and child as parent-child bond music songs explore how music became pArt of family activities - a woman singing children's songs and use music the way parenting, music, on their ideas, feelings, and as a mother the impact of sense of identity, as well as games and music performances through the formation of interaction with the children and the relationship between types.

In addition, many countries have also attached great importance to education of infants and young children have long made a deal with 0-3 year-old infants for the Development of intelligence, such as New Zealand made early education: education from birth. Peru, Ghana and other countries the 0 to 3 years of education have been included in national action plans, they said: 3 years ago is the golden period of brain Development, early education is the key period is the psychological Development of infants and young children the most rapid period of the spoken language, the concept of digital logic grasp the critical period, behavioral, personality, personality development lay period. [4]
In China, with sustained economic development, people's living standards, the establishment of the concept of lifelong education, the implementation of a good education for infants and young children become the parents desire a more intense, more and more Chinese families have begun to pay attention to the infant music of enlightenment and intellectual development.

In short, the infant music elementary education for the development of infant intelligence, strive to develop good morals, enhance memory and hearing children to develop imagination and creativity are all of great significance [5] early music can not only improve infant Enlightenment experience of music, but also develop the right brain, left brain balanced development so that, like the baby's imagination, creativity and memory to add a flying wings, so that it can develop more excellence.

Second, infants and young children approach elementary education music
The ability of the infant support the development of early music in the form of diversification, the mother of the child to speak softly singing tone and rhythm, so that infants and young children to listen to more voices and styles of music, as well as between parents and music games are suitable for simple form. Infant music perception and its early after childhood, adolescence, development of musical cognitive succession of, for the baby to create a rich musical environment for infants and young children bathed in music perception with music appropriate to the environment, will be able to enhance and develop their perception of music and music of its future ability to play a positive role. Specifically, the following aspects should be.

1 listen
Music in infants and young children in elementary education, listening should be placed in an important position because the experience of hearing the music and learning. In general, infants and young children are in a variety of physiological organs immature stage of development, so listen to them Music should be beautiful, cheerful, smooth music-based, can also be combined with the development of language learning to sing some of the songs nursery rhymes, while for infants and young children, should be music into their lives, in the natural harmony of daily life contacts and experience in music, both to foster interest in music, but also conducive to the healthy development of their energy.

(1 Music
Infants and young children, especially infants, mainly by listening to music to promote the development of their hearing ability in the process of listening to music, they get influenced by music, Art and entertainment of the United States pleasure, listening to music with the children can live in some of the day activities carried out. with the daily life activities, children listen to music, the main purpose is to create a good atmosphere for kids and emotional, for children to eat sweet, sleep comfortably, have a good time, and the unconscious mind can take advantage of the characteristics of children in the accumulation of good music in the minds of the impression, for the training of infants and young children's music, cultural awareness, development of music in order to lay a good foundation.

(2 Mom Song
The baby, the mother's voice is his / her favorite and most acceptable sound. My mother's voice is the most wonderful, so do not worry about how much their singing ability the mother singing, you can hold the baby on his knee , arms, or stay with the baby to sleep so that both skin contact, but also surrounded by the mother's body odor, plus hear mother's voice, prompting the baby with the feel of the infant brain have excellent impact [6] with the child language development, can teach kids to learn to sing when teaching children to sing, let the child looked at the mother's mouth and facial expressions, her mother's singing school, which can help children understand the content, Articulation articulate songs the content and emotion. [7]
2, AC
The study found that happiness were all pro-nuclear line - some common qualities, including more self-confident, optimistic, self-control, good parent-child communication, will help form a healthy parent-child attachment relationship, promoting the ability of infants and young children and social development. Music in infants and young children in elementary education, interactive songs, musical games, rhythm gymnastics activities such form and content of parent-child communication also plays an important role.

(An interactive music
Studies have shown that parent-child interactive songs, especially songs like the familiar names such as "Where is your nose?", "Where your mouth?" These songs, interactive songs and Action (Duo Duo cats and hiding games, etc.) and singing with a rich gesture interaction for children's language acquisition has a very important role in children's singing these interactions in babbling song, this action of the corresponding pair of words and situations, learning specific language elements together with adult and child can listen to music, singing, and guide the children to do rhythmically clapping, percussion and other games, with love to open the door to children's music, help them experience the joy of music, the music experience. [8] for adults and children can play with to create the sounds of the game: if we allow children to use a small stick with percussion music, turn over the bucket, pot, pots, pottery, and can hit the sweet sound of the equipment, and child care along with the sand, small stones into the waste bin or opaque bottle, made of a variety of small "sand hammer," so that young children distinguish between different sounds and use them to play the rhythm, the same parents can be more than ready to bowl or glass bottles, were loaded on different amounts of water, lightly beat with a spoon so that children, whether the difference between listening to their sound, parents can guide children to use different material items, such as cellophane, paper bags and other noises. In short, Adults can take advantage of all the things available in the surrounding environment and enhance children's interest in music and feelings.

(2 music games
Music is the music accompanying the game under the games. Other games with the main difference is that with the use of music, directing, promoting, restricting gaming activities and their changes and developments in music, games, music and games to promote the relationship is mutually reinforcing, and music along with the action, so The more vivid, lively, coordination, and beautiful at the same time, the specific actions can help children feel the image, understanding music, get the corresponding emotional experience, in order to promote the development of intelligence [9]
Parents can be at home for the children to create a relaxed musical environment.

As is often music, and according to the child "intuitive thinking, action," the characteristics of the movement to express and understand the contents and guide the children sing along with music, jumping, play, and play the music and into the child's life. This accompanied by the music activities and games, is to train and develop children's intellectual skills, coordination and development of children's action to promote child care in the moral, intellectual, physical, and aesthetic aspects of good health means growth, is consistent with the age characteristics of infants and young children , for the kind of music they loved the way elementary education.

3, rhythm gymnastics
In infants and early childhood education, traditional values, there is emphasis on knowledge and understanding of light exercise, however, this is actually an erroneous concept, because in the human growth process, is the first physical maturity. The baby's bones, joints, muscles by the thin, immature development to thick, strong, these are inseparable with the movement for adult children focus on learning, but also we must urge them to strengthen the sport. Action in the music is accompanied by a child interested in doing an activity. Infant in rhythm and gymnastics, and continue to develop the activities of man hands the ability to feel and experience the music and the rhythm and rhyme. Links to free download http : / / www.hi138.com infants mainly through the senses and body movements to explore the world around them, watching, listening, grasping, rolling, crawling in the process of the world around them. with age, they will be more broad approach to explore the world and they learned to play with objects, understand language, and describe what they are doing, as the development of motor skills, they are on their own body, as well as their bodies can do a relatively clear understanding. They know they can have space in which the purpose of moving the body [10]
In the first three years, children should be able to feel a steady beat, steady beat can walk under. This basic sense of time and the ability to beat the difficulties of access to early child care without the basic motor skills of primary capacity. Simple experience of class action promote children's motor skills development. [11]
Accompanied by the music do the movements or dance, in line with the main camp is to teach children to learn music the beat, rhythm, speed and emotion to do the movements, can change with changes in the music movement in various parts of the body to do the movements, through the motor nerve to perceive the beauty of art music, as well as through coordinated, graceful movements to express emotional content of music, the activities of infants and young children can develop a sense of movement and rhythm to promote healthy child to grow and develop. [12]
Third, the infant's attention to point elementary education music
1, the correct view of parenting
Our goal is to cultivate children: physical and mental health, high moral character, personality improvement, intellectual integrity for the young children before the age of 3, music, elementary education does not necessarily enable them to become professionals working in the music, but music to give enlightenment enrich children's early experience of sensory stimulation and exercise, can improve the structure of brain pathways and function of a variety of learning ability after the formation of a lifelong impact.

Elementary education must be out of the music is married to fame of this misunderstanding, it should not be a baby the ultimate goal of elementary education in music. The purpose of elementary education in music is to let children feel the music, depicting the ability to improve the aesthetic qualities and to develop the "U.S. "The pursuit and desire to create, make them a better future life. but the child has the aesthetic ability, experience and association to convey emotion in music, and thus feel the beauty of life.

2, the choice of music
In the choice of music for infants and young children to elementary education teaching materials, teaching materials need to pay attention to the degree of difficulty, both for the child's age, characteristics, interests and capabilities, but also appropriate to give them some improvement. Using Vygotsky proposed "zone of proximal development" principle, so that kids accept this beautiful, clear, up the influence of music, cultivate noble sentiments, prompting them to grow healthy Specifically note the following three aspects to consider:
(1 music content
Teach children to sing and appreciate music and emotional content, should be the child can understand the feelings, thoughts and feelings should be healthy and lively, the melody should be pleasant for the children are happy to listen to music sing. Should not sing to their parents adults teach children to sing songs, because the emotional content of the song is often difficult to understand the feelings of children, songs of range, rhythm and singing skills a child could not do.

(2 songs range Family
Parents of young children to sing the song should take into account the child's singing range, because the children's lung capacity is not the vocal cords are developing, the tone is too high or if the selected interval beat songs too, will cause excessive stress and respiratory care uncoordinated vocal affect hair province, or even cause damage to vocal cords, therefore, the choice of songs parents should take full account of the physiological characteristics of young children. In general, three or four children singing range of 3 degrees or 4 degrees, the younger the child the range more narrow.

3, parent-child activities designed to
Parent-child activities is to enhance parent-child communication, parent-child develop good feelings, but also to meet the children fun loving nature, promote child development activities for infants and young children, children's programs should give more consideration to the characteristics of the full development of children in parent-child activities, the selection of appropriate children's music and songs, children's programs will make the children happy in the emotional and artistic culture has nurtured a more prominent role, while the music, children's programs should be designed to take into account the child in the audio-visual, motor, language ability to expand the field of cognition and behavior promotion and development [13]
In short, the music is not just the sound effects, music, elementary education is a comprehensive arts education, but also a comprehensive training with the rhythm of music, the nature of time and space, music and image with the internal laws of logic, so Music can increase infant intelligence of the German philosopher Leibniz said: "Music is the soul of the arithmetic exercises, listening to soul music in the calculation of, but he does not consciously." indispensable music is the child's "spirit milk, "Adults should create conditions to allow kids to be good music, elementary education, healthy development for their future and lay a solid foundation.

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