Authors
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Claudia Gluschankof
Faculty of Music Education, Levinsky College of Education Beit Almusika, Shefar'am
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Keywords:
music listening, modalities of expression and representation, early childhood listening skills, children self-initiated and developed choreographies
Abstract
The music listening characteristics of young children have been studied mainly in atomistic ways, focusing on a specific musical skill while listening to a specially produced musical excerpt. Can we base the design of music appreciation activities on such type of findings? Do preschool need evidence based designed music appreciation activities or they are able to get deeply acquainted with recorded music pieces, given the time, the space and the legitimation to explore it at their pace? This article presents a literature review on the musical listening skills of three to six-year-old children, a critical analysis of pedagogical approaches to structured music listening in school and preschool and an analysis of 11 children self-initiated and developed choreographies on one music piece, in one preschool. These choreographies challenge structured approaches and knowledge on the musical listening skills and representation of young children.
Author Biography
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Claudia Gluschankof, Faculty of Music Education, Levinsky College of Education Beit Almusika, Shefar'am
Claudia Gluschankof is Senior Lecturer at Levinsky College of Education, Tel-Aviv, teaching at undergraduate and graduate level at the Early Childhood Education Department and Music Education Department. She served as member of the Music Curriculum Committee of Israel, and is the academic advisor at Beit Almusica Conservatory (Shafr- Amr, Israel. She has been involved with ISME -ECME commission in (2006-2012, chairing 2008-2010; 2018-2022), serves in the review board of several international and national journals (IJME, RIEM, Min-Ad), and the Book Review editor of the newly launched International Journal of Music in Early Childhood. Her research interests focus on the musical expressions of young children, particularly on the self-initiated play of young children in various cultural contexts, especially among Hebrew and Arab speakers, as well as music teacher training. She is currently involved in Global Visions Through Mobilizing Networks: Co-Developing Intercultural Music Teacher Education in Finland, Israel and Nepal , a research project funded by the Academy of Finland (2015-2019). In July 2018 she served both in the scientific and the site organizing committee of the ever first ISME pre-conference ECME (Early Childhood Music Education) seminar hosted in the Middle East, and specifically in Shafr-Amr, Israel by Beit Almusica Conservatory.
