Creative musical activities in early childhood education: An analysis of teaching practices

Abstract

The aims of this quantitative descriptive research were to find out the involvement and training of generalist Early Childhood teachers in active in the school year 2023/2024 in the development of creative musical and sound activities. An online questionnaire was used to obtain socio-demographic data, creative self-concept, as well as the degree of training, importance attached to and use of certain creative music and sound activities, and statistical correlational analyses were carried out between the variables. In total 72 Early Childhood teachers responded to online questionnaire. The results indicated that, despite having no training in music or music pedagogy, Early Childhood teachers consider themselves to be creative, attach importance to these activities, and use them often. These findings can contribute to the establishment of national or regional standards for music teaching in early childhood education, as well as to the revision of early childhood teacher training in music education.