Thesis (Ed. D.)--Teachers College, Columbia University, 1968. / Typescript; issued also on microfilm. Sponsor: Gladys Tipton. Dissertation Committee: Samuel Ball. "Index of concepts presented in Chapter V": leaf 201. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 179-189).

Syftet med min studie är att undersöka hur fyra förskollärare, verksamma i en musikförskola, uppfattar musikens funktion i förskolan och hur betydelsefull de anser att musikverksamheten är för barn i förskolan. Jag valde att genomföra en semistrukturerad gruppintervju där fyra förskollärare deltog. Jag har valt Vygotskijs sociokulturella perspektiv som teoretisk utgångspunkt i mitt arbete. I mitt resultat kunde jag se ett mönster av samarbete, gemenskap och barns inflytande som något som är viktigt för de förskollärare som deltog i min studie. Varje fråga som förskollärarna diskuterade under intervjun, tog utgångspunkt ur barns intressen och utifrån barns förutsättningar. / The purpose of my study is to examine how four preschool teachers that work in a music-preschool observe the function of music in preschool and the importance of music activities for children in preschool. I decided to use a semi-structured group interview were four preschool teachers participated. I chose Vygotsky's sociocultural perspective as a theoretical starting point in my work. In my results, I could see a pattern of cooperation, community and the children's influence as aspects that are important for preschool teachers who participated in my survey. Every question that preschool teachers discussed during the interview took a starting point of children's interests and based on children's conditions.

Thesis (Ed.D.)--Teachers College, Columbia University, 1970. / Typescript; issued also on microfilm. Sponsor: Gladys Tipton. Dissertation Committee: Charles W. Walton. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 219-227).

This thesis presents an investigation into the pedagogical content knowing (PCKg) of Dutch experienced specialist preschool music teachers with regard to teaching and learning rhythm skills viewed from an embodied cognition perspective. An embodied cognition perspective stresses the intimate relationship between body, mind and environment. In a multiple case study the research methods - stimulated recall interviews, gesture analysis tasks, physical action analysis tasks, notebooks and semi-structured interviews - were used to elicit the PCKg of six specialist preschool music teachers regarding rhythm skills. The data of these different methods were inductively analysed but sensitising concepts derived from the literature review on PCKg were also used in the analysis. Furthermore, the data were triangulated to gain a comprehensive understanding of the participants' PCKg. As for the nature of the specialist preschool music teachers' PCKg regarding rhythm skills the findings illustrated that PCKg is distributed over language, sound, gestures, body positioning and physical actions. Respecting the content of PCKg a new form of (non-verbal) knowledge was explored: 'musical communication and musical interaction' that facilitates the learning of rhythm skills of preschoolers. The study is first of all significant for offering a new perspective on the nature of the specialist preschool music teachers' PCKg: a multimodal and dynamic way of knowing that emerges from the interrelated role between the social, cultural and physical classroom environment, the teaching task and the teacher's body. Beyond the classroom, these teachers' bodies form a source for recalling, re-enacting and eliciting classroom experiences to develop and communicate their PCKg. Secondly, it offers a new perspective on the content of the specialist preschool music teachers' PCKg: these teachers' bodies take on different roles to mediate the preschoolers' learning process regarding rhythm skills. These findings have implications for further research, teacher education, practice and policy.

The thesis deals with the support and development of the music activities for preschool children at kindergarten. Its aim is to build a complete preview showing the current concept of the music class at kindergarten and the positive music influence on the whole individual in the field of physics, psychics and sociality. On the one hand, it calls attention to the risky and inconvenient pedagogical methods in relation to children and their talents in general and on the other hand, it shows the way of creating a positive music relationship for the future living.