On the role of music education in children's development.
On the role of music education in children's intellectual development
Abstract: the development of contemporary children means the all-round development of body and intelligence. The healthy and rapid development of children is the basis for a country to reserve talents. The development of contemporary society and the progress of science and technology depend on the rapid and healthy development of talents. Children's development needs not only a strong physique, but also higher intelligence.
Keywords: right brain; Perception; Imagination; Attention; Memory; individuality
The so-called intelligence refers to the general mental ability of living things. Refers to people's ability to know and understand objective things and solve problems by using knowledge and experience, including memory, observation, imagination, thinking and judgment. This ability includes the following aspects: understanding, planning, problem solving, abstract thinking, expressing thoughts, language and learning ability. As a piano teacher, I find that music is the most dynamic factor to improve and develop children's intelligence. Professor Xiao divided 78 children aged 3-4 with similar intelligence into three groups. One group studied the music of Mozart and Beethoven, another group studied computers, and the other group had no training. Results Nine months later, he tested the intelligence of the three groups of children with jigsaw puzzles, and found that the scores of children who studied music increased by 35% on average, while those of the other two groups hardly improved. The development of children's intelligence by music is manifested in the following aspects:
1 Learning music can develop the potential of human right brain.
In order to pursue the balance of left and right brain development, human beings have carried out a lot of research and experiments. How can learning music develop the potential of human right brain? First of all, let's learn about the structure and function of some people's brains: the structure of the human brain is like half a walnut. The left brain and the right brain are connected by the middle nerve bundle (the so-called corpus callosum) to form a complete brain. In the 1960 s, American neurophysiologist Roger? Professor sperry discovered the functional division of left and right brain when he was studying epileptic patients whose corpus callosum was removed. According to Dr. sperry's theory, the left brain is mainly responsible for analysis. The processing of information by the left brain is linear, that is, it is calculated and processed one by one according to the order in which the information appears, similar to what we often say today. Therefore, the sequence and specific time of information is particularly important. In addition, the unique language function of human beings is also located in the left brain. The so-called learning ability, that is, the thinking ability we need most in reading and vocational training, also depends mainly on the normal operation of the left brain. Because the left brain pays more attention to details than the right brain, we can vividly say that the left brain can only see one tree after another, but not the whole forest. In contrast, the right brain has nothing to do with temporal order, linearity or language information processing. In the right brain, the most important thing is spatial thinking. A person's imagination, creativity and thinking ability in images all depend on the degree of development of his right brain. If the left brain mainly processes digital signals, then the right brain is responsible for analog signals. The whole picture of a thing is the focus of the right brain, not any specific details. In other words, the right brain sees the whole forest instead of tree after tree. It can also be said that the left brain is the commander-in-chief of knowledge, and its duty is to develop intelligence based on thinking, analytical thinking and concentrated thinking. The left brain can also be called the mathematician's brain. The right brain is the commander of creation, and its duty is to develop intelligence based on imagination, intuitive thinking and diffuse thinking. The right brain can also be called the artist's brain. From the above theory, let us understand the division of human brain and function. A person has been studying and living from birth to old age, and our learning and calculation depend on the function of the left brain. This leads to unbalanced development of the left and right brain. Therefore, scientists have done a lot of experiments, which prove that learning music and playing musical instruments can help to develop people's right brain potential.
Learning music can improve the development of children's perceptual ability.
Music education can develop children's perception. Children don't need to know the characters first, but through perception. The discrimination of pitch, rhythm, dynamics, timbre and the perception of music structure will improve children's auditory sensitivity, selectivity and overall sensitivity to music. Music learning is not only a matter of ears and fingers, but also causes functional reactions of the whole body. Singing or performing activities with rhythm, dance and musical instruments need the coordination of children's ears, eyes, brain and limbs, which can cultivate children's keen sense and improve the flexibility of brain reaction. Music art, like other arts, has distinct characteristics, but the most important notes in music are invisible and intangible. Its height and duration, the beginning and end of music, the relationship between time and space and so on. It is of great significance to cultivate children's intuition, analysis, imagination and creativity.
Learning music can develop children's creative thinking and imagination.
Music education activities can not only cultivate children's creativity and develop their intelligence, but also stimulate their emotional intelligence. Through classroom music education, it not only promotes children's all-round and harmonious development, but also cultivates children's ability to feel, understand and express music. It not only enriches children's imagination, but also exercises children's creativity. It has a positive effect on developing children's creative thinking. With the development of education reform and science, improving children's quality in an all-round way and cultivating students' creative thinking in music classroom teaching will surely show attractive prospects. Einstein, a great physicist, played the piano and violin very well. Some people who study Einstein's invention say that musical instruments play a much bigger role in Einstein's invention than people think. Because, from his favorite music of Mozart and Beethoven, he heard the reflection of the laws of natural music, Pythagoras' Song of Creating Numbers, and how Kepler composed the music of celestial bodies. The strange pictures displayed in his music unconsciously cultivated Einstein's imagination.
Learning music can develop children's attention quality and improve their memory.
When children appreciate music melody, they should not only pay attention to the pitch of music melody, but also pay attention to the rhythm of music melody and the emotion to be expressed. Children who join the choir should first learn to watch the conductor's gestures, read the music in their hands, listen to the melody and sound of each part, and listen to the timbre of their own voices. Children who learn piano, when playing musical works, should first carefully look at the music on the music stand, but also pay attention to the rhythm of left and right hands and the use of pedals, and pay attention to the emotions to be expressed by music. A new study in Canada shows that children who study music have better memories than those who don't. The researchers selected two groups of children aged 4-6 and tested them four times a year. One group studied music, and the other group didn't receive music training. It changed in just four months. These children need to complete a music test to distinguish harmony, rhythm and melody, and a memory test to remember and repeat after listening to a string of numbers. Children who have received music training for one year perform better in memory tests than children who have never studied music. Moreover, their memory ability in non-musical aspects has also improved, including word memory, graphic memory, digital memory and overall IQ. Researchers say that people who study music and those who don't study music have different brain functions. The results of this study encourage parents who spend a lot of time and money teaching their children to learn music.
Learning music can cultivate children's moral sentiments and improve their personality.
Children become attached to art, cultivate sentiment, let them wander freely in the palace of art, and draw the most essential inspiration from art, which will benefit them for life. Children who study art have a good personality. Music and other arts can give people a beautiful influence. Since childhood, children's aesthetic consciousness and ability have been improved and strengthened unconsciously, which is of great benefit to children's physical and mental growth. Music can greatly promote children's thinking activities. Music is the source of wisdom and the key to inspiration. Many scientists and artists regard music as an important means to improve self-cultivation, inspire inspiration and creativity. Children who often listen to music can deeply feel and understand the beautiful and lofty emotions embodied in music. With the change of rhythm and melody, their thoughts gradually fly to the distance and blend with beautiful music. The beauty of art is varied. Children exposed to art can enjoy the fresh air in the art world and feel the flowers and birds in the art kingdom, which is helpful to cultivate children's sentiment and enhance their ability to feel, appreciate and create beauty. Music, with its charming charm, inspires children's pure hearts. Promote the formation of their good morals. Through long-term music training, they are influenced by reason, emotion, mind and action. So that the soul is constantly purified and the soul is constantly sublimated. The process of children learning music is the process of being educated. This process not only makes them have a strong interest in music, but also strengthens the unity and cooperation among students, cultivates their collectivism spirit, sense of honor, sense of responsibility and strong perseverance in training and performance, and lays a good foundation for shaping their noble personality.
Learning music can cultivate children's language learning ability and social communication ability.
Through four years' part-time teacher training in university, I found that some students' language ability is very general before learning music. After several years of music education, children have become very confident, and their language ability has been greatly improved compared with before learning music. In vocal music teaching, teachers let children recite lyrics, which further strengthens the cultivation of children's language ability. Solfeggio basic education trains children to express the pitch, rhythm and emotion of a melody, thus strengthening the cultivation of children's language ability. Music art is an art of communication. Only by exchanging and learning, learning from each other's strong points and learning from each other's strong points can we make great progress. In a series of activities such as lectures, competitions and performances, children constantly communicate and learn, thus strengthening their social communication ability.
On the role of music education in children's development.
On the Value of Preschool Music Education to Children's Development
Abstract: Music education, as an important enlightenment education, plays a key role in children's growth. Music is conducive to promoting children's physical and mental health and growth. By cultivating children's interest in music, they can develop their musical talent and stimulate their imagination. Paying attention to the role and influence of music in preschool education will help children get a good start in the early stage of growth and development, so as to stand on the starting line of life guided by the right direction.
Keywords: preschool education; Children; develop
First, the connotation of preschool music education
At present, the importance of music education stems from the commitment of the education department to the development of scientific health education and the research and exploration on how to better help children learn and grow.
Music is different from other subjects in children's education. As an independent discipline, music has the same basic attributes as other disciplines. Therefore, the effect and influence of music education will be very different, depending on whether music education is a special discipline to cultivate music or whether music courses are a means to help students receive education. The former aims to cultivate children's professional music knowledge and skills, focusing on the essence of music education; The latter is based on children's all-round healthy development, through music courses as incentives, so as to achieve the ultimate goal of education, which is also the current views and differences on music enlightenment education.
Through analysis and summary, these two viewpoints are not mutually contradictory, but only two aspects or levels that coexist in music education, and cannot be investigated in isolation. From the perspective of musicology in education, the viewpoint of music education aimed at cultivating children's musical skills and knowledge is the attribute of music as a basic discipline, and the latter is the expansion and sublimation of this viewpoint. The ultimate goal of education is to cultivate all-round talents and shape a sound personality. In the process of education, independent personality is manifested in the formation of world outlook, values and outlook on life, and survival ability is manifested in skill training and knowledge reserve. Therefore, this view, as two aspects of an educational theme, is complementary and harmonious.
Second, the value of preschool music education to children's development
Music, as a flowing and perceptual art, takes sound as its form or carrier. Babies are full of curiosity about new things. Music, as a kind of sound different from ordinary ways, can stimulate children's interest in perception and exploration, cultivate their cognitive and recognition abilities and give full play to their imagination in the free listening space of music through guidance and education. On the other hand, by teaching some music knowledge, children's creative ability is cultivated, and ordinary sounds are transformed into beautiful music through music knowledge. The significance of music in preschool education can be described from the following five aspects:
1. The value of promoting children's physical development
The influence of music is reflected in children's education. The most obvious function is to promote the healthy development of children. Music curriculum education mainly affects children's senses, that is, hearing. Music gives the brain a certain signal by stimulating hearing, and the central nervous system of the brain processes the music stimulation signal and gets feedback. The training of music courses has increased the opportunities and space for children to contact music. By listening to and appreciating music, they exercise the brain's ability to respond to things, activate the cerebral cortex and promote their flexible thinking. Medical research shows that music can promote children's physical development and improve their brain reaction ability and body coordination ability.
2. The value of promoting the development of children's language ability
In early childhood, children's language system is in the primary stage of growth and development, and music education is beneficial to children's listening and speaking. Taking songs as an example, lyrics and music scores are the main elements of songs. Lyrics are often written in beautiful rhyming poems, from which children can learn a lot of literary vocabulary, accumulate cultural knowledge and improve their language expression ability. The rhythm and vocal method of music score can help children control and coordinate their limbs and realize flexible response. The biggest advantage of music is that it avoids the boring and boring of traditional courses, integrates knowledge into course learning in an entertaining way, and concentrates children's learning attention by creating an environment with active classroom atmosphere and high learning enthusiasm.
3. The value of improving children's cognitive ability
The flow of music language is elusive, and music appreciation is a process of perception, imagination and cognition. Therefore, the value of music in promoting children's cognitive ability is as follows:
(1) Music teaching plays an important role in children's senses. The survey results show that in the process of children's education, it is emphasized to cultivate and exercise all kinds of abilities in an all-round way in order to promote their all-round improvement. The nervous system of the cerebral cortex usually responds fastest to the most exposed stimulus signals. Music education is to help children improve their language system, improve their language ability and enhance their sensitivity to music.
(2) Children's music education improves children's memory ability. The exercise of children's memory and the improvement of their ability are one of the important goals of preschool education. Music, as a rhythmic and emotional sound, has its own distinctive characteristics and attributes, although it has the attributes of general sound. Children need to arouse their auditory attention through the perception of cerebral cortex to distinguish and identify music signals. In the early stage of the brain's response to this series of stimuli and signals, it is necessary for the brain to keep these signals for a short time, that is, to remember them, which is manifested in the reproduction of music scores. The content of music is transformed into concrete images through children's free imagination. Therefore, the memory of music is helpful for children's perception and comprehension of language.
(3) The process of feeling and appreciating music is also a process of imagination and association. Music is a flowing sound, so it is more abstract. Lenovo helps children get close to the content of music, connect with their own life experiences, and transform them into concrete musical images through imagination.
4. Promote the developmental value of children's emotions
Emotional expression in childhood is mostly an expression of cognitive activities, and children will balance the external environment with their own needs, mostly showing their attitudes and emotions about whether their needs are met. The satisfaction needed in childhood emotion is a relatively low-level emotional expression. Music is based on the direct expression of emotion. From an intuitive point of view, we can appreciate all kinds of emotions contained in music. Soothing tunes are mostly soft and calm emotions, while passionate and high-pitched tunes will arouse people's tension. Listening to music is also an experience of various emotions and emotions. Music teachers can use various teaching methods and ways to guide children to listen to all kinds of emotional music, show all kinds of emotional pictures consistent with music, and help children to enrich and experience all kinds of emotional elements. In the teaching process, many famous and classic music works are involved, which provides a good emotional start for children.
5. The value of promoting the formation of children's personality
Personality is characterized by its relative stability, uniqueness and integrity, which is different from other individuals. Quality education advocates the cultivation and development of children's personality, which is a sign of children's healthy physical and mental growth, while a complete personality is the establishment and maturity of personality. Attention should be paid to the growth and development of children's personality in early childhood. Preschool music education can help children cultivate interest in things and an optimistic and positive attitude towards life, which is of great value to promoting the growth of children's personality.
Paying attention to preschool music education and training, developing colorful campus music activities and creating a relaxed, free, open and positive music learning atmosphere have become the direction and goal of kindergarten efforts. We should define the concept of preschool music education and base on the formation and development of children's all-round personality. While teaching music skills and knowledge, preschool music education, as an integral part of preschool education, should bear the role and task.
Since ancient times, music, as a language to convey emotions and information, has a strong appeal. Music art is a temple with extensive knowledge, which contains countless excellent music works from ancient times to the present, and is a vivid portrayal of people's spiritual world in each era. Music teachers should base themselves on the needs of children's growth, tap beneficial elements in music textbooks, and promote children's healthy growth and all-round development.
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