The purpose of this research is to investigate the emotions of pre-school children. The research task was to elicit children's affective responses to music through the act of drawing. Three pre-school children with no formal musical training or formal schooling participated in the study. During three sessions of "play" they played musical instruments, listened to music selected for sharp contrasts in mood, and drew pictures. The children expressed their feelings about the musical selections by drawing on large sheets of paper with coloured pencils. Afterwards they discussed how they felt about the music and they described how their drawings related to the music. These discussions were tape recorded. The children produced twelve coloured drawings which, together with their explanations, were a source of insight into their emotional responses. The analysis of these data showed that the children perceived the emotional content of the music and were able to express it through the use of colour, form and space. The study concluded that this type of research is relevant to the education of pre-school children because children need to externalize their feelings; the method used here is a path to do so.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.21249 |
| Date | January 1999 |
| Creators | Papageorges, Elisabeth. |
| Contributors | Russell, Joan (advisor) |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | French |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Master of Arts (Department of Culture and Values in Education.) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | alephsysno: 001655354, proquestno: MQ50555, Theses scanned by UMI/ProQuest. |
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