The aim of this research is to create programs using Eurhythmics, an approach to music education featuring in physical movement. It should be noted that the target group is young children who have interests in playing by nature, and this research focu...
The aim of this research is to create programs using Eurhythmics, an approach to music education featuring in physical movement. It should be noted that the target group is young children who have interests in playing by nature, and this research focuses on developing a systematic and specialized program in which children will get interested in rhymic movement and participate in the rhythmic education more actively through playing.
This research is expected to develop infants' creativity, expressiveness, rhymic movement, and sociality. The necessity of this research is finding out which rhymic movements improve physical developments by studying body expressiveness activities invented by Émile Jaques-Dalcroze's who emphasized the fun and enjoyable learning through creative physical expressiveness activities.
The program consists of musical and movement factors of Eurhythmics. The construct of this program was based on this idea. The program utilizing Eurhythmics follows Introduction-Development-Conclusion procedures for 50 minutes. First, concept explanation and stretching are provided for the first five minutes.
Next, the target group will learn musical factors by doing hand-playing activities and handling toys for another five minutes in the Introduction part. Then, the Development part which will last for 35 minutes is divided into two sections, Activity 1 and Activity 2. In Activity 1, the target group is to learn movement factors, and in Activity 2 they are to experience both musical factors and movement factors through playing. Finally, for 5 minutes in the Conclusion part, the instructor will wrap up the program with simple stretching exercises. The researcher of this experiment would like to give a couple of recommendations to promote the rhymic movement program utilizing Eurhythmics theory.
First, further research should be conducted to develop special educational programs that consider the factors such as the age and level of the infants instead of relying on repetitive teacher-centered and goal-oriented lessons.
Second, more instructors should be trained who can practically teach rhythmic education through playing based on Eurhythmics theory. To this end more research should be done in teaching methodology and Eurhythmics theory so that more instructors with those special knowledge can teach the infants in practical classrooms.