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The Importance Of Music In Child Development

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In this essay I will discuss the importance of following children’s interests, the stages of development and the importance of adult providing appropriate opportunities for the children to be creative. Also I discussed the benefit of music. Schemas form part of Piaget’s theory of cognitive development. Schemas are an organised way of making sense of experiences. While going through the different stages of development children will go through a stage of accommodation this is creating new schemas and adjusting old schemas as old schemas do not capture the environment correctly. ‘’Disequilibrium refers to the inability to fit new information into our schemas. When you come across information or experiences that do not fit into your current knowledge …show more content…

Children develop their speech and language skills. Speech is developed through the use of songs and nursery rhymes. Language skills are developed when children are listening to a wide range of songs which all have new words for the child to expand their language. Listening skills are also developed, music can encourage children to pay attention and listen to what is going on around them. Children’s long and short term memory skills are also developed as the child will try and remember the words of the song or nursery rhymes or the beat to clap along to. Imagination can be developed when children are creating their own musical instruments as the child can discover the different sounds of different materials they use. Some children are appealed to music because of the variety of sounds the instruments can make. (Campbell et al, 2010). Music develops the artistic awareness, self-expression, self-growth, self-esteem and multicultural sensitivity which all forms part of the holistic development of the …show more content…

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