Every child is born with an ear for music - do the grown-ups notice??
Children
are much more able than the grown-ups believe.
How can parents, day-care centres,
schools (or music schools for that matter) make room to work with the different
levels of ability in every child. A kind of work that both supports the individual
and at the same time makes room for differences and then again supports an active
child culture.
Children love to sing. They sing and play with sounds right
from the very beginning of their lives. Children sing before they can talk and
they dance before they can walk.
How can adults stimulate children's own musical
expressions and use the children's own culture as a start in the active work with
children?
Children have a wide range of cultural expressions, which unfortunately
disappears as they get older.
How can parents, music teachers, kindergarten
teachers, teachers or others, who work with children, hold on to these expressions?
The
lecture will include some examples of children's own musical expressions gathered
from day-care centres, schools, music schools and unified work between these institutions.
What
does unified work mean to children - what does it mean to children when we use
different forms of education?
Presentation - video - practice - discussion - will be parts of this active lecture.
WORKSHOP:
COME
ALONG - SING ALONG - PLAY ALONG
How to establish music in practice with children
and how to use what children already can do.
Starting out in practice with
playing music, singing and dancing we will come around to methods of how to use
music, movement and dance with children up to age 16. Music, dance and happiness
are keywords in this course. Discussions lines:
· From children's own
musical expressions to a musical practice
· How do grown-ups participate?
·
How can we unify our work across age and subject and still keep music as the essential?
A
course filled with practice experience and a lot of examples from projects at
schools and day-care centres.
A course were we will be singing, dancing, and
playing music and convince ourselves how the impossible will be possible.
Erik
Lyhne is a senior lecturer at Aarhus College of Education, a member of "KULTURENS
BØRN" from 1995 to 2000 - an advisory capacity in the Ministry of
Cultural Affairs. In addition Erik Lyhne has (with others) collected a wide series
of children made songs and published several textbooks, song books and CDs.
Contact Erik Lyhne: lyren@lyren.dk phone +45 86158030