Music and Movement: A Way of Life for the Young Child, 6th Edition

This new edition presents music and movement education curricula for both preservice and inservice teachers.  The best-selling core music and movement text provides a comprehensive and up-to-date survey of professional research while continuing to incorporate links between theory and practice.  The authors of the text encourage teachers and caregivers to attend to the importance of research and contemporary thought regarding music and movement education.  The approach of the book continues to be  “process not product.” 

Music and Movement: Enjoyment and Value for Children

Beginning the Process of Planning

Music from Around the World

Cultural Diversity Through Music and Movement

Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences

Supporting Children's Intelligences

Basic Stages of Early Musical and Movement Development and the National Standards

Developmentally Appropriate Practice

Selecting Songs, Fingerplays, and Instruments

Music Instruments for Young Children

Childhood Obesity and Physical Inactivity

Building on Children's Natural Movements

The Role of Movement in Creativity

Planning for Movement Activities

Talks with Teachers

Singing as a Support to Movement

Music as a Support to Movement

Children and Dance in the Classroom

National Standards for Movement and Dance

Basic Materials for Movement

Fingerplays and Action Songs

Talks with Teachers

Music and Movement for Children with Special Needs

Intellectual Differences and Music and Movement

The Young Child's Musical Development

Infancy and Music

Infancy and Movement

Auditory Stimulation of Infants

The Importance of Lullabies for Infants

Lullabies from Around the World

Talks with Teachers

National Standards for Infants and Toddlers

New Opportunities for Toddlers

Nursery Rhymes

Chanting

Music from Around the World

Elements of Musical Beginnings

Characteristics of Three-Year-Olds

Three-Year-Old's Response to Sound and Movement

Planning Music and Movement Activities for Three-Year-Olds

Talks withTeachers

National Standards for Music Education

Singing and Musical Awareness

Songs to Use with Three-Year-Olds

Music from Around the World

Stages of Development

National Standards for Music Education for Four-Year-Olds

Talks with Teachers

Conceptual Learning Through Music and Movement

Finger Plays and Action Songs for Four-Year-Olds

Movement and Music as Play

Music from Around the World

7.    Music for Kindergarten and Early Primary

Building a Meaningful Music and Movement Curriculum

National Standards for Music Education for Five-Year-Olds

General Characteristics of Five to Eight Year Olds

Listening to Music

Conditions that Promote Good Listening

Singing

Instruments

Eastablishing a Listening Music Center

Talks with Teachers

Imaginative Teachers

Fundamentals of Movement

Music from Around the World

Favorite Songs and Rhythms

Interdisciplinary Focus on Music and Movement

Music and Movement and the Language Arts

Music and Reading Skills

Music, Movement, and Mathematics

Music, Movement, and Science

Music, Multiculturalism, and Social Studies

Music from Around the World