By the time infants hit the the age of 1 it is natural that they start trying to communicate verbally which can be helped develop through music however it can also delay the process.
William Ford Thompson (2009) states that enculturation, the ability to understand and appreciate music in their environment makes children’s brain, in particular infants’, function at a higher capacity. Thompson believes that through regular and repeated exposure to music or learning an instrument also known as active learning strongly encourages infants’ perceptual and motor skills development as appose to passive learning which can be achieved by creating a musical environment through things such as lullabies, nursery rhymes and use of radio and/or iPod which …show more content…
Piaget (1936) worked extensively to develop his theory, genetic epistemology. Genetics is the comprehension of where things come from and epistemology “looks at the basic categories of thinking and the structural properties of intelligence”, what Piaget was concerned with was the concepts of ideas such as “number, time quantity, causality, justice and so on emerged.”
Piaget’s theory of child cognitive development was achieved through a systematic study of cognitive development which Piaget created. A study that entailed “detailed observational studies of cognition in children, and a series of simple but ingenious tests to reveal different cognitive abilities” , this study broke the assumption that children were just less capable thinkers than adults.
Piaget, 1952 identified that children go through 4 stages of cognitive development …show more content…
Piaget (1954, 1964) described the sensorimotor stage which occurs from birth to 2 years to be the stage where the quickest cognitive growth happens and this stage focuses on the transitioning from the earliest use of reflexes such as eating and sleeping to symbolism, the beginning of internal representation (cited by Hargreaves, 1986)
Infants are born with a set of reflex movements and perpetual systems which start to develop in direct knowledge of the world through trial and error which means an infant attending baby music classes will soon learn that by pressing a sequence of keys on the piano produces pleasant music and when they press the ‘wrong’ key the sound is not pleasant therefore experiencing, although unable to verbally communicate they are experiencing, consequences. By allowing the child to make decisions and experience the outcome he/she exercises the ability to make said decisions building a sense of independence which helps them develop
William Ford Thompson (2009) states that enculturation, the ability to understand and appreciate music in their environment makes children’s brain, in particular infants’, function at a higher capacity. Thompson believes that through regular and repeated exposure to music or learning an instrument also known as active learning strongly encourages infants’ perceptual and motor skills development as appose to passive learning which can be achieved by creating a musical environment through things such as lullabies, nursery rhymes and use of radio and/or iPod which …show more content…
Piaget (1936) worked extensively to develop his theory, genetic epistemology. Genetics is the comprehension of where things come from and epistemology “looks at the basic categories of thinking and the structural properties of intelligence”, what Piaget was concerned with was the concepts of ideas such as “number, time quantity, causality, justice and so on emerged.”
Piaget’s theory of child cognitive development was achieved through a systematic study of cognitive development which Piaget created. A study that entailed “detailed observational studies of cognition in children, and a series of simple but ingenious tests to reveal different cognitive abilities” , this study broke the assumption that children were just less capable thinkers than adults.
Piaget, 1952 identified that children go through 4 stages of cognitive development …show more content…
Piaget (1954, 1964) described the sensorimotor stage which occurs from birth to 2 years to be the stage where the quickest cognitive growth happens and this stage focuses on the transitioning from the earliest use of reflexes such as eating and sleeping to symbolism, the beginning of internal representation (cited by Hargreaves, 1986)
Infants are born with a set of reflex movements and perpetual systems which start to develop in direct knowledge of the world through trial and error which means an infant attending baby music classes will soon learn that by pressing a sequence of keys on the piano produces pleasant music and when they press the ‘wrong’ key the sound is not pleasant therefore experiencing, although unable to verbally communicate they are experiencing, consequences. By allowing the child to make decisions and experience the outcome he/she exercises the ability to make said decisions building a sense of independence which helps them develop