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Specialist music instruction is embedded in the centre’s program, and a staff singing group project integrates this specialist program with classroom music initiatives. The study uses participant observation with field notes, photos, interviews, and recordings. 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The centre has specialist programs embedded and one of these is a music program led by a musician. A recent project, consisting of a staff singing group, was aimed at integrating the specialist music program with music initiatives occurring in the separate classrooms within the centre. The study culminated in a staff performance for the children.  \nParticipant observation was the main method of data collection for this qualitative study and observations were recorded as field notes, photographs, interviews and recordings of music practice sessions. The singing group, formed by the staff, was viewed as a collaborative activity and in this paper, the performance, which became a focus of the singing group project, has been used to interpret the shared musical experiences ofthe staff and the children.  \nKey words: early childhood, music, staff singing group, performance  \nAustralian Journal of Music Education 2010:2, 5-16  \nBackground and introduction  \nThis paper reports on research carried out inan early learning centre for pre-school children where arts programs, delivered by specialist teachers, are included in the centre’s program for all children. In this research the children’s music sessions were the main focus. The status of music in the early childhood curriculum has become increasingly problematic so in this introduction we discuss music in the early childhood setting to give context to the present study.  \nMusic has a unique position in the suite of arts introduced in the early childhood curriculum in that it does not seem to be as easily accessible  \nto general practitioners as other art forms such as the visual arts and literature (deVries, 2006; McMahon, 1967; Suthers, 2004) . In Australian early childhood programs it has been common practice to use generalist staff for all areas of the curriculum. Play, music, visual arts, language and literature have, in the past, featured as curriculum content in most under-graduate training and education programs for early childhood staff. There has been, however, a diminishing emphasis on music skills in under-graduate studies in recent years (Nyland & Ferris, 2007). This has had the effect of undermining the confidence of generalist teachers in the provision of musical experiences, with a resulting disappearance of  \nmusical activities in many centres other than the use of pre-recorded music and songs. To try to alleviate this situation some researchers (e.g., deVries, 2006), have even focused on how staff who lack confidence (Suthers, 2004), or musical knowledge (Wiggins & Wiggins, 2008) may use CDs and DVDs to enhance their presentation of music experiences. Pre-service teachers have also researched their own experiences. In one study pre-service teachers reported on being taught about the ‘arts’ and found the education to be both enabling and constraining (Miller, Nicholas & Lambeth, 2008) . Miller et al.,(2008) found that their university course did not allow for what they brought with them from their own experience. These pre-service teachers also commented that space for critical reflection of the arts and its place in education was haphazard. Their undergraduate program contained a generic arts subject and they did not mention music as one of the ‘arts’covered in their course.  \nThis situation has led to a rise in the number of centres organising specialist music programs forchildren (e.g., Mini Maestro classes) or employing teachers with expertise in music, as was the case for the early learning centre (ELC) where this investigation took place. The phenomena being explored in this study was a staff singing group that ha","cbCaif4znERW3A66","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaif4znERW3A66","pdf",212052,12,"English","# Abstract\n# Background and introduction\n## Music in early childhood curriculum\n## Specialist programs and music skills\n## Staff singing group project and performance","[{\"question\":\"What was the purpose of the staff singing group project?\",\"answer\":\"It aimed to integrate the specialist music program with incidental music activities happening in separate classrooms, culminating in a staff performance for the children.\"},{\"question\":\"How was the research data collected in this qualitative study?\",\"answer\":\"The main method was participant observation, with data recorded as field notes, photographs, interviews, and recordings of music practice sessions.\"},{\"question\":\"What does the paper examine through the final staff performance?\",\"answer\":\"It uses the performance as a focus for interpreting shared musical experiences and how both staff and children engaged with the music initiative.\"}]","Young children and music: Adults constructing meaning through a performance for children | PDF",1792079107]