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Authors: Hans-Peter Becker | Christine Kaiser
Language: English, 34 pages, Paperback
ISBN: 978-3-940903-27-3

To practice a ​pedagogic ​profession that involves direct contact with ​children, people in most cases must meet high requirements in the form of examinations or licenses. This is however not the case for teaching music.

Anyone who has mastery of an instrument, whether at a professional level or even at a very low level, can ​conduct lessons​ in early childhood music education​. In most cases, music instructors lack pedagogic know-how​ and knowledge of the sensitive periods of children​. And this has fatal consequences.

Statistics show that among Westerners the number of people who actively play a musical instrument is less than 10 % – in most cases between 7 % and 9 %. The reason is the perception among most people that they are not musical – as a result of ​their negative experience with early childhood music education and having to play recorder, xylophone or singing songs without any emotional attachment.​