Abstract

Objectives The purpose of this study is to review Bachelard's material imagination, analyze how material imagination is expressed in musical encounters of young children, and examine the meaning of material imagination in early childhood music education.
 Methods After examining the historical flow of the concept and value of imagination and the distinctive characteristics of Bachelard's theory of imagination through literature research, examples were extracted from previous studies on the researcher's invented notations. How material imagination is expressed was analyzed in their invented notations.
 Results Bachelard's theory of imagination overcomes the limitations of opticocentrism, and establishes the dynamic status of imagination by reorganizing the concept of motion of matter of objects. In material imagination, the essence in the depths of the object moves and approaches the subject, and the subject also recognizes the movement of the object with feelings of joy and wonder. The motility of matter possessed by the object gives the object initiative and gives it a status equal to that of the subject. In addition, the ontological qualification of the object is given due to continuous creation, which has the significance of enabling the subject to become an object.
 Conclusions In the children's invented notations, the children sensed the motility of the musical characteristics of the song and created a new mental image by intertwining their experiences and environments. It can be seen that this is a creation that leads to ‘children - song of ‘everyone jump’ - invented notation - becoming’ through the manifestation of the material imagination of young children.

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