The Music Advantage

Author: Dr. Anita Collins
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0593421450
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 289

Book Description
An expert in cognitive development and music education reveals the remarkable and surprising benefits that playing--or even appreciating--music offers to children. The latest cognitive research has revealed something extraordinary: learning music and listening to music can grow and repair our brains at any age. Here, Dr. Anita Collins explains how music has the potential to positively benefit almost all aspects of a child's development, whether it's through formal education or mindful appreciation; simply clapping in time can assist a young child who is struggling with reading. It turns out that playing music is the cognitive equivalent of a full-body workout. Dr. Collins lays out the groundbreaking research that shows how playing an instrument can improve language abilities, social skills, concentration, impulse control, emotional development, working memory, and planning and strategy competence, from infancy through adolescence. She also provides real-life stories to show the difference that music learning can make, as well as practical strategies for parents and educators to encourage a love of music in their kids.

The Yamaha Advantage

Author: Sandy Feldstein
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780825842146
Category : Bands (Music)
Languages : en
Pages : 16

Book Description

The Musical Child

Author: Joan Koenig
Publisher: Mariner Books
ISBN: 1328612961
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 261

Book Description
A pioneering music educator reveals how music can supercharge early childhood development--and how parents and educators can harness its power. Since opening her famed Parisian conservatory over three decades ago, Joan Koenig has led a global movement to improve children's lives and minds with the transformative power of music. With a curriculum and philosophy drawn from cutting-edge science, L'Ecole Koenig has educated and empowered even its youngest students, from baby Max, whose coordination and communication grow as he wiggles and coos along to targeted songs and dance, to five-year-old Constance, who nourishes her empathy, creativity, and memory while practicing music from other cultures. In The Musical Child, Koenig shares stories from her classrooms, along with tips about how to use the latest research during the critical years when children are most sensitive to musical exposure--and most receptive to its benefits. A gift for parents, caregivers, musicians, and educators, The Musical Child reveals the multiple ways music can help children thrive--and how, in the twenty-first century, its practice is more vital than ever.

Music and the Child

Author: Natalie Sarrazin
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781942341703
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 312

Book Description
Children are inherently musical. They respond to music and learn through music. Music expresses children's identity and heritage, teaches them to belong to a culture, and develops their cognitive well-being and inner self worth. As professional instructors, childcare workers, or students looking forward to a career working with children, we should continuously search for ways to tap into children's natural reservoir of enthusiasm for singing, moving and experimenting with instruments. But how, you might ask? What music is appropriate for the children I'm working with? How can music help inspire a well-rounded child? How do I reach and teach children musically? Most importantly perhaps, how can I incorporate music into a curriculum that marginalizes the arts?This book explores a holistic, artistic, and integrated approach to understanding the developmental connections between music and children. This book guides professionals to work through music, harnessing the processes that underlie music learning, and outlining developmentally appropriate methods to understand the role of music in children's lives through play, games, creativity, and movement. Additionally, the book explores ways of applying music-making to benefit the whole child, i.e., socially, emotionally, physically, cognitively, and linguistically.

The Immortality of the Soul; The Magnitude of the Soul; On Music; The Advantage of Believing; On Faith in Things Unseen (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 4)

Author: Saint Augustine
Publisher: CUA Press
ISBN: 0813211042
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 498

Book Description
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Your Brain on Music

Author: Laura Saunders
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781974313280
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 62

Book Description
Music education has been scientifically proven to have cognitive benefits; these benefits include: greater attention span, increased ability in geometrical skills, improved performance in mathematical problem solving and spatial tasks, heightened fluency in reading, and greater short-term and long-term memory. These benefits give music educators a platform from which to advocate for the retention and growth of their programs and to encourage music as a lifelong pursuit.

The Advantage

Author: Patrick M. Lencioni
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1118266102
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 253

Book Description
There is a competitive advantage out there, arguably more powerful than any other. Is it superior strategy? Faster innovation? Smarter employees? No, New York Times best-selling author, Patrick Lencioni, argues that the seminal difference between successful companies and mediocre ones has little to do with what they know and how smart they are and more to do with how healthy they are. In this book, Lencioni brings together his vast experience and many of the themes cultivated in his other best-selling books and delivers a first: a cohesive and comprehensive exploration of the unique advantage organizational health provides. Simply put, an organization is healthy when it is whole, consistent and complete, when its management, operations and culture are unified. Healthy organizations outperform their counterparts, are free of politics and confusion and provide an environment where star performers never want to leave. Lencioni’s first non-fiction book provides leaders with a groundbreaking, approachable model for achieving organizational health—complete with stories, tips and anecdotes from his experiences consulting to some of the nation’s leading organizations. In this age of informational ubiquity and nano-second change, it is no longer enough to build a competitive advantage based on intelligence alone. The Advantage provides a foundational construct for conducting business in a new way—one that maximizes human potential and aligns the organization around a common set of principles.

Introduction to Research in Education

Author: Christine Sorensen
Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing Company
ISBN: 9781133939610
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 700

Book Description
A classic in the field, INTRODUCTION TO RESEARCH METHODS IN EDUCATION, 9E, International Edition helps students master the basic competencies necessary to understand and evaluate the research of others, and shows them how to plan and conduct original research. The text’s strengths include a clear writing style, comprehensive topic coverage, well-chosen and effective examples that clarify complex concepts, and strong end-of-chapter exercises that expose students to intriguing research problems. This edition builds on the text’s strengths of teaching students to become more competent consumers and producers of research, with expanded coverage of action research and a new feature focusing on research issues in the public realm.

Cengage Advantage Books: Piano for Pleasure, Concise

Author: Martha Hilley
Publisher: Schirmer Books
ISBN: 9780495897736
Category : Music theory
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
This compact edition of BASIC PIANO FOR PLEASURE will have you playing in no time with its accessible and comprehensive tools! The authors present vital keyboard skills in a smooth, carefully calibrated progression that makes you feel comfortable learning to play the piano. By the end of the first chapter, you will play a Hilley arrangement of "Amazing Grace," and a piece written especially for this title by Lynn Freeman Olson. Subsequent chapters build your confidence by offering a consistent synthesis of keyboard skills, music theory, and creativity. Olson's original and appealing musical selections consistently complement Hilley's legendary teaching skills. As a result, you will learn difficult piano skills as you experience the excitement of playing old favorites.

Cengage Advantage Books: Piano for the Developing Musician, Concise

Author: Martha Hilley
Publisher: Schirmer Books
ISBN: 9781439085431
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
CENGAGE ADVANTAGE BOOKS: ESSENTIAL PIANO FOR THE DEVELOPING MUSICIAN, Sixth Edition, is a streamlined edition that provides graduated piano skills and theory, with additional online tutorials that provide extra author guidance and practice music.