Degree | Type | Year | Semester |
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2500797 Early Childhood Education | OB | 3 | 2 |
There are no previous requirements
Presentation:
The aim of this subject is to show the importance of music education in early childhood while giving adequate resources and models.
Although emphasising the didactic training, the musical and cultural training of the students will be taken into account as a foundation of a good teacher’s training.
Goals:
- To develop abilities and knowledge to understand and enjoy music and to use it in the classrooms
- To acquire criteria on early childhood music education as a foundation of communication and as a basic learning tool
- To develop resources that ensure different music education learning situations
1. Music and Education
1.1 Music: art and human expression and communication tool
1.2 Music in relation to social, cultural and educational context, keeping in mind gender's perspective
2. Foundations and musical practice
2.1. Performing songs, nursery rhymes and other sound productions
2.2. Active listening of the environmental sounds and different musical pieces
2.3. Musical creations: exploring, improvising and composing.
2.4. Use of multimodality for music understanding and expression
2.5. Analysis and development of criteria for early childhood music education
3. Early Childhood Music Education
3.1. Music in the early years in a child as a global human being
3.2. Use of music as a communicative tool in 0 to 6 stages.
Masterclasses will develop the theoretical themes of the course as well as some big group singing. Seminars will have a more practical and interactive approach.
Our teaching approach and assessment procedures may be altered if public health authorities impose new restrictions on public gatherings for COVID-19
Title | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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Type: Directed | |||
Masterclass | 12 | 0.48 | 6, 12, 4, 1, 10, 11 |
Seminars | 18 | 0.72 | 6, 12, 7, 4, 1, 10, 9, 11, 13 |
Type: Supervised | |||
Meetings and other supervised activities | 20 | 0.8 | 1 |
Type: Autonomous | |||
Assignments | 35 | 1.4 | 2, 6, 3, 8, 9, 13 |
Musical practice and study time | 15 | 0.6 | 2, 6, 4, 8, 9 |
To pass the subject it is required to pass each of its parts with a mark of 3 or higher.
People who have vocal problems that prevent them from singing will have 0 in the song part of the oral exam.
It is compulsory to attend the classes. The student has to attend at least the 80% of them to pass the subject.
Active participation and good attitude during the teaching and learning process are necessary to pass the subject.
To pass the subject it is necessary that the student shows a good communicative competence, orally and in writing, and a correct knowledge on the lingua franca.
Any plagiarism in work submitted will suppose the failure of the course.
The results of the different assingments will be returned at the most in three weeks after handing them out. After this period will be a revision day.
The delivery of the tasks, as they appear in the following table:
1) Different dates subjected to the topis of the reading, always in magistral sessions.
2) First week of April
3 and 4) Last session of the subject
If you fail activities 2 and 4 with a mark between 3 and 4.5 you can do them again two weeks after the end of the course.
There are 3 activities that are compulsory to pass the subject but do not have a qualification or take part of the evaluation
A) Attending a concert and answering a test - individual
B) Musical activities and resources data bank- group activity
C) Reading comprehension test - group activity
Title | Weighting | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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1. Theoretical framework. Reading and public conceptual presentation (in group) | 15% | 0 | 0 | 2, 5, 6, 4, 8, 10, 9 |
2. Listening and analysing a musical activity (individual) | 40% | 0 | 0 | 6, 12, 4, 8, 10, 9, 11 |
3. Sound experimentation and singing in fairy tailes (group activity) | 30% | 0 | 0 | 2, 6, 12, 7, 3, 4, 1, 8, 10, 9, 13 |
4. Singing. Oral exam: songs and nursery rhymes | 15% | 0 | 0 | 4, 1, 10 |
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