Inventing songs, inventing worlds: the ‘genesis’ of creative thought and activity in young children’s lives

Barrett, Margaret S.

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“…Barrett (2006) also argued that songs provide the platform for inventing creative thought-something poets and authors also do. This ability is extremely valuable in later years when the child becomes literate and begins writing narratives or informational texts.…”

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Singing is a Celebration of Language: Using Music to Enhance Young Children’s Vocabularies

Winters

Griffin

2014

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Music engages children in language learning, offering them opportunities to understand and express their ideas and communicate with others in ways that go beyond words. This article, based on two ethnographically-framed studies and the use of two real-life vignettes, demonstrates how singing and musical experiences (e.g., composition, soundscapes, musical improvisation) have the power to enhance children's lexical acquisition and semantic knowledge at various levels of development. Results demonstrate that singing and musical experiences, whether biologically or socially shaped, provide opportunities to celebrate language and enhance young children's vocabulary building.

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Singing is a Celebration of Language: Using Music to Enhance Young Children’s Vocabularies

Winters

Griffin

2014

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“…Child singing is another recognized musical play in infancy. Traditionally, the performance of standard songs has been distinguished from that of invented songs (Barrett 2006;Welch 2006). Bjørkvold (1992) described the apparition of the first individual invented songs around the first year of life.…”

Section: Forms Of Vitality Play: First Approach and Previous Sporadicmentioning

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Forms of Vitality Play in Infancy

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Martı́nez

Bordoni

et al. 2014

Integr. psych. behav.

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In this paper we report a qualitative study based on the constant comparative method to initiate the systematic study of forms of vitality play. This is an unnoticed non-figurative play frame linked to early social play and temporal arts in which child and adult elaborate the dynamics of their own movements and sounds in a repetitionvariation form. In the introduction we present the theoretical underpinnings and the sporadic observations we have done in previous studies. Then, by the iterative observations of the recorded material of a longitudinal case study on play during the third year of life, we generated the general category of forms of vitality play and four subcategories of display modes of forms of vitality play (improvised forms of vitality play, ritualized forms of vitality play, forms of vitality play combined with pretend play, and forms of vitality play combined with role playing) which are illustrated with descriptive narratives. We discuss the properties of the developed categories, the limits of the present study, and the need to continue systematizing the research on this playful activity.

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“…(Lin 2010, 109) The focus in this paper is on ways in which the arts can support early learning, and not on the broader dimensions of creativity or creative learning. Developments in Scandinavia (Barratt 2006;Hopperstad , 2008bPramling Samuelsson et al 2009) and in Northern Italy, (ReggioChildren 1995) show how a focus on the arts can enhance children's learning both in the arts and other aspects of their development. The widely acclaimed work of Reggio Emilia has long-demonstrated how an arts-based curriculum and the involvement of experienced artists as well, as teachers, can give rise to many forms and foci of learning in the early years.…”

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Conceptualising arts-based learning in the early years

Nutbrown

2013

Research Papers in Education

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Inventing songs, inventing worlds: the ‘genesis’ of creative thought and activity in young children’s lives

Cited by 84 publications

References 18 publications

Singing is a Celebration of Language: Using Music to Enhance Young Children’s Vocabularies

Singing is a Celebration of Language: Using Music to Enhance Young Children’s Vocabularies

Forms of Vitality Play in Infancy

Conceptualising arts-based learning in the early years

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