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    Using Music Intentionally
    Using Music Intentionally
    Using Music Intentionally
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    Using Music Intentionally

    By Pippa Chapman

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    This handbook is for all early childhood educators on how to use music intentionally in your classrooms and teaching contexts. From how to teach new songs and speech rhymes to detailed steps on how to incorporate high quality, meaningful, and intentional music experiences into your teac

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherFreesia Music Studio
    Release dateSep 1, 2022
    ISBN9780645538519
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      Using Music Intentionally - Pippa Chapman

      Contents

      Contents

      About the Author

      Acknowledgements

      Chapter One:  Introduction

      Chapter Two:  Teaching Songs and Speech Rhymes to Young Children

      Chapter Three:  Intentional Music-Making

      Chapter Four: Final Thoughts

      Appendix: Sample Lesson Session Template

      References

      About the Author

      Pippa is the founder and owner of the Freesia Music Studio, a small business that is passionate about empowering parents and carers of young children with high quality music enrichment ideas and activities for preschoolers that are easy and accessible.

      She graduated from Perth Modern School, attended on a Music Scholarship, with distinction in music. She has a Bachelor of Music Education (honours) and her honours thesis was in fact about parents’ motivation to enrol their children in extracurricular early childhood music education classes.

      Pippa has worked in the junior, middle and senior schools at Hale School and St Mark's Anglican Community School. Pippa has completed the Australian Kodály Certificate in Brisbane and is an experienced musicianship tutor and music educator. She presents sessions regularly with the Australian Society for Music Education and the Kodály Music Education Institute of Australia.

      Currently, Pippa is delivering tutorials and seminars at Edith Cowan University in areas such as Music in Early Childhood and Arts in Primary Education and is completing her PhD study, which is set to finish mid-way through 2024.

      Acknowledgements

      Personal communication:

      Teachers share songs and activities with each other often. I would like to acknowledge the recent and relevant impact and influence of the following people with regards to the content in this book, as well as their relationship with me professionally and personally:

      A mentor and friend, Danielle Joynt, from Cottage Music Junior, Western Australia.

      A colleague and friend, Jason Boron, from Edith Cowan University, Western

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