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NAfME is an organization founded in 1907 of more than 60,000 people who advocate for the benefits of music and arts education for students at the local, state, and national levels. [21] NAfME published a press release with the bipartisan senate revision and the impact they believe it will have on the United States Core Curriculum.
Music education is a field of practice in which educators are trained for careers as elementary or secondary music teachers, school or music conservatory ensemble directors. Music education is also a research area in which scholars do original research on ways of teaching and learning music.
The benefits that young children acquire through music include social skills, emotional self-regulating abilities, cognitive benefits, and physical benefits. Socially, children have the opportunity to learn how to take turns and play with others while still playing individually, for example a band of little players each playing their instrument ...
Jean-Marc Nattier, The music lesson, (1711) Some studies suggests that music lessons provide children with important developmental benefits beyond simply the knowledge or skill of playing a musical instrument. Research suggests that musical lessons may enhance intelligence and academic achievement, build self-esteem and improve discipline.
In A Guide to Research in Music Education, Phelps, Ferrara and Goolsby define research as the identification and isolation of a problem into a workable plan; the implementation of that plan to collect the data needed; and the synthesis, interpretation and presentation of the collected information into some format which readily can be made available to others.
DAMP was coined in 2011 by music education researcher Dr. Guerino Terracciano while conducting a study for the effect of a hands-on music education in-service program on early childhood educators’ attitude, knowledge, and self-efficacy for providing DAMP in the learning environment with young children. Terracciano [1] states the following:
Playing an instrument or even singing your favorite tune may improve your memory and thinking skills. According to a group of researchers in the U.K., playing a musical instrument improved working ...
Save the Music was founded in response to the budget cuts of the 1990s that decreased arts education in public schools, particularly in urban areas. [1] Although research demonstrated its positive impact on math, literacy, and science skills, in addition to cognitive, cultural, and social development, children's access to music education in public schools was reduced.