The purpose of this article is to share information about the virtual pre-conference seminar of the Early Childhood Music Education (ECME) Commission of The International Society for Music Education (ISME). The seminar included an Australian focus, as if not for the COVID-19 pandemic, the ECME seminar and the ISME world conference would have been held in Australia. The article presents key moments from the seminar, including the welcome, keynote and the range of presentations from many countries. The ECME commissioners worked tirelessly to make this event happen, dealing creatively and effectively with widely differing time zones and technical challenges.
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San Bernardino, Csusb ScholarWorks, Khanh Luu, Alexis Ramirez, Alastair Edmonstone, Georges Bizet
{"title":"Special Presentations","authors":"San Bernardino, Csusb ScholarWorks, Khanh Luu, Alexis Ramirez, Alastair Edmonstone, Georges Bizet","doi":"10.1386/ijmec_00060_7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/ijmec_00060_7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":142184,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Music in Early Childhood","volume":"20 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139371551","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Research shows that several factors often impede potential authors from engaging in the publishing process. These include negative emotions stemming from unpleasant reviewer feedback and/or a lack of specific knowledge regarding the various stages of writing and publishing. In this article, based on a session we presented at the 2022 ISME Early Childhood Commission Seminar, we aim to counter such negative emotional responses by providing writing and publishing information for readers who seek to disseminate their work through International Journal of Music in Early Childhood (IJMEC). We draw upon Kwan’s Research Publishing Competence Framework, which consists of five domains related to comprehensively supporting authors: conceiving and designing publishable projects, output planning and management, manuscript writing, thesis–publication conversion and handling reviews.
{"title":"Publishing in the International Journal of Music in Early Childhood: Key processes and considerations","authors":"Diana R. Dansereau, E. Andang’o, Luc Nijs","doi":"10.1386/ijmec_00057_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/ijmec_00057_1","url":null,"abstract":"Research shows that several factors often impede potential authors from engaging in the publishing process. These include negative emotions stemming from unpleasant reviewer feedback and/or a lack of specific knowledge regarding the various stages of writing and publishing. In this article, based on a session we presented at the 2022 ISME Early Childhood Commission Seminar, we aim to counter such negative emotional responses by providing writing and publishing information for readers who seek to disseminate their work through International Journal of Music in Early Childhood (IJMEC). We draw upon Kwan’s Research Publishing Competence Framework, which consists of five domains related to comprehensively supporting authors: conceiving and designing publishable projects, output planning and management, manuscript writing, thesis–publication conversion and handling reviews.","PeriodicalId":142184,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Music in Early Childhood","volume":"187 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139372045","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The Early Childhood Music Education (ECME) commission of the International Society for Music Education (ISME) looks ahead to the future work of ECME, and specifically the pre-conference seminar to be held in Helsinki, July 2024, with the theme Enhancing a Sustainable Future with Music in Early Childhood. With planning for the seminar underway, the commissioners aim is for ECME to be a sustained rich space, where researchers and practitioners can meet together to support and advocate for the role of music in the lives and well-being of young children and those who care for them.
{"title":"ECME 2022–24: Looking ahead","authors":"Lauren K. Kooistra","doi":"10.1386/ijmec_00058_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/ijmec_00058_1","url":null,"abstract":"The Early Childhood Music Education (ECME) commission of the International Society for Music Education (ISME) looks ahead to the future work of ECME, and specifically the pre-conference seminar to be held in Helsinki, July 2024, with the theme Enhancing a Sustainable Future with Music in Early Childhood. With planning for the seminar underway, the commissioners aim is for ECME to be a sustained rich space, where researchers and practitioners can meet together to support and advocate for the role of music in the lives and well-being of young children and those who care for them.","PeriodicalId":142184,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Music in Early Childhood","volume":"27 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139371524","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The first virtual International Society for Music Education (ISME) Early Childhood Music Education (ECME) seminar in July 2022, featured a provocative theme, Making Voices Visible in Early Childhood Music. Research papers, poster presentations and the keynote by Pauline Harris led us to consider ways to cast our attention on children’s voices through and about music. By listening deeply and visibly, we can expand our understanding of young children as musickers, leading to improved pedagogy, while providing a compass for further inquiry.
{"title":"Hearing young children’s musical voices","authors":"Suzanne L. Burton","doi":"10.1386/ijmec_00051_2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/ijmec_00051_2","url":null,"abstract":"The first virtual International Society for Music Education (ISME) Early Childhood Music Education (ECME) seminar in July 2022, featured a provocative theme, Making Voices Visible in Early Childhood Music. Research papers, poster presentations and the keynote by Pauline Harris led us to consider ways to cast our attention on children’s voices through and about music. By listening deeply and visibly, we can expand our understanding of young children as musickers, leading to improved pedagogy, while providing a compass for further inquiry.","PeriodicalId":142184,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Music in Early Childhood","volume":"12 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139371147","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Early Childhood Music Education Commission (ECME) International Seminar: Making Voices Visible in Early Childhood Music, 12–14 July 2022","authors":"","doi":"10.1386/ijmec_00054_7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/ijmec_00054_7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":142184,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Music in Early Childhood","volume":"9 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139371337","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Making Voices Visible in Early Childhood Music: ISME/ECME Seminar, 12–14 July 2022","authors":"","doi":"10.1386/ijmec_00059_7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/ijmec_00059_7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":142184,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Music in Early Childhood","volume":"48 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139371570","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This article explores the creation of a sonic experience for babies driven by conceptual notions of Nature at large, as well as the natural dispositions of babies. Using the researcher’s background as an experimental musician on the guzheng, parallels are drawn between contemporary music practices (e.g. John Cage; R. Murray Schafer; Toru Takemitsu) that explore Nature as theme, as well as Chinese perspectives (e.g. Book of Rites, Record of Music; Zhuangzi of Nature). Both speak to the diminution of the dualism of self and other such that one’s experiences could be viewed as interconnected within self and the environment, achieving attunement with Nature to be in a state of spontaneity. Babies seem to exist in such a state of attunement with Nature, where the self is in harmony with the other. Such existence allows one to be in a state of constant receiving and responding to sounds through multiple modalities of the body. According to Colwyn Trevarthen’s theory of innate intersubjectivity, this is fundamental to babies’ intersubjective communication, where babies innately seek attunement. Through the observations of four sonic experience sessions created for babies, the conceptual notions of Nature and its application onto the sessions are presented. These were evident through the artistic choices made in the structure, set and props, music explorations and babies’ engagement. Due to the nature of babies where they exist in spontaneity with the environment, it was noted that despite an experience designed especially for sonic functions, babies’ perceptions were multimodal in nature. The experience of sound was not purely auditory. Babies’ innate need to seek attunement, such as companionship through an imitative other was also significant to the experience. This has implications on the affordances of experiences in infant care environments in childcare settings.
{"title":"N/nature as an impetus for the creation of a sonic experience for babies","authors":"Natalie Alexandra Tse","doi":"10.1386/ijmec_00056_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/ijmec_00056_1","url":null,"abstract":"This article explores the creation of a sonic experience for babies driven by conceptual notions of Nature at large, as well as the natural dispositions of babies. Using the researcher’s background as an experimental musician on the guzheng, parallels are drawn between contemporary music practices (e.g. John Cage; R. Murray Schafer; Toru Takemitsu) that explore Nature as theme, as well as Chinese perspectives (e.g. Book of Rites, Record of Music; Zhuangzi of Nature). Both speak to the diminution of the dualism of self and other such that one’s experiences could be viewed as interconnected within self and the environment, achieving attunement with Nature to be in a state of spontaneity. Babies seem to exist in such a state of attunement with Nature, where the self is in harmony with the other. Such existence allows one to be in a state of constant receiving and responding to sounds through multiple modalities of the body. According to Colwyn Trevarthen’s theory of innate intersubjectivity, this is fundamental to babies’ intersubjective communication, where babies innately seek attunement. Through the observations of four sonic experience sessions created for babies, the conceptual notions of Nature and its application onto the sessions are presented. These were evident through the artistic choices made in the structure, set and props, music explorations and babies’ engagement. Due to the nature of babies where they exist in spontaneity with the environment, it was noted that despite an experience designed especially for sonic functions, babies’ perceptions were multimodal in nature. The experience of sound was not purely auditory. Babies’ innate need to seek attunement, such as companionship through an imitative other was also significant to the experience. This has implications on the affordances of experiences in infant care environments in childcare settings.","PeriodicalId":142184,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Music in Early Childhood","volume":"40 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139371891","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"2022 ISME Early Childhood Music Education Commission","authors":"","doi":"10.1386/ijmec_00061_7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/ijmec_00061_7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":142184,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Music in Early Childhood","volume":"23 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139371361","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Guided by children’s right as active citizens to be heard and have their views taken into account on matters affecting their lives, this article explores opportunities early childhood music educators can provide for children’s voices to inform their practices. Drawing on experiences from the Children’s Voices project, the author describes ten key principles that guide authentic dialogic encounters with children. Connections are made to research in early childhood music throughout the article. These connections inform how music in its various guises can be used as a medium for engaging with children’s voices and, conversely, how children’s voices can and should inform early childhood music education.
{"title":"In the key of child major: Engaging with children’s voices through and about music","authors":"Pauline Harris","doi":"10.1386/ijmec_00055_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/ijmec_00055_1","url":null,"abstract":"Guided by children’s right as active citizens to be heard and have their views taken into account on matters affecting their lives, this article explores opportunities early childhood music educators can provide for children’s voices to inform their practices. Drawing on experiences from the Children’s Voices project, the author describes ten key principles that guide authentic dialogic encounters with children. Connections are made to research in early childhood music throughout the article. These connections inform how music in its various guises can be used as a medium for engaging with children’s voices and, conversely, how children’s voices can and should inform early childhood music education.","PeriodicalId":142184,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Music in Early Childhood","volume":"6 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139371465","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}