In recent years, and in an attempt to move towards a more inclusive and democratic Music Education, some scholars have criticized hegemonic Eurocentric approaches to music teaching and learning, suggesting instead a departure from sound and sounding phenomena as larger categories that might incorporate children’s diverse trajectories and life experiences. Following this initial quest, in this paper we aim to in...
Recent research in Music Education and Music Psychology has established important connections between music and children's wellbeing (Hallam, 2015, 2016; Hallam, Creech & Varvarigou, 2017; Smith, 2021). Consequently, several researchers have highlighted the need to implement more inclusive and democratic practices in formal and non-formal educational contexts, involving all children in participatory and meaning...
This worshop is based on the pilot project "Sound Hunters: Towards a Pedagogy based on Listening and Sound Exploration in Early Childhood", that the authors are implementing in a non-formal educational context in Portugal. This workshop emerges from "a double call" that has recently been made in the field of music education. A call that asks, on the one side, for a new perspective on the concept of "music" - th...
Neste artigo, fundamentado em dois estudos de caso em jardim de infância, refletiu- -se sobre como e com quais ferramentas de apoio se pode avaliar e promover qualidade e intervenção educativa adequada nos contextos. Selecionou-se um grupo de crianças (entre 3 e 6 anos) e desenvolveram-se estratégias com a finalidade de escutar e compreender o modo como elas participam. Ainda, em diversos tempos da rotina de ca...