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Music and the arts are being recognized as crucial intellectual building blocks in the early years, closely linked to such cognitive functions as verbal linguistic development, spatial reasoning, complex problem solving in math and science, and the development of emotional intelligence.

Mounting evidence from the fields of education, cognitive neuroscience, and brain imaging has challenged our previous assumptions about intelligence and brain development in children.

This holds especially true in the early years of a child’s development.

The Marilyn Thomson Early Childhood Education Centre is developing and delivering innovative early childhood education programs, and digital early childhood education products for use in the home and classroom by parents, children and teachers.

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The Marilyn Thomson Centre is focused on providing parents, caregivers and teachers with the tools to give children an enhanced, educational experience and promote cognitive and social development through music and the arts.

The Marilyn Thomson Early Childhood Education Centre has been launched thanks to a generous gift from David, Peter, and Taylor Thomson, reflecting her lifelong involvement in music and her commitment to music education.

The Marilyn Thomson Centre is poised to significantly advance the reach and impact of early childhood development in Canada, and to be at the heart of one of today’s greatest opportunities: helping every child succeed through the power of music.

Wisdom of the Hands: December 2010

Wisdom of the Hands: December 2010

At one time Froebel’s ideas had a profound impact on American education. Joy was perceived as an essential ingredient for effective learning.

John Dewey had described the influence of Kindergarten on his experimental school at the University of Chicago as follows:

One of the traditions of the school is of a visitor who, in its early days, called to see the kindergarten. On being told that the school had not as yet established one, she asked if there were not singing, drawing, manual training, plays and dramatizations, and attention to the children’s social relations. When her questions were answered in the affirmative, she remarked, both triumphantly and indignantly, that that was what she understood by a kindergarten, and she did not know what was meant by saying that the school had no kindergarten. The remark was perhaps justified in spirit if not in letter. At all events, it suggests that in a certain sense the school endeavors throughout its whole course — now including children between four and thirteen — to carry into effect certain principles which Froebel was perhaps the first consciously to set forth.

The Songs and Music of Friedrich Froebel’s Mother Play: (Mutter Und Kose Lieder): Songs Newly Translated and Furnished with New Music : Paperback : Friedrich Frobel, Susan Elizabeth Blow, Friedrich Fr Bel : 9781177386494

The Songs and Music of Friedrich Froebel’s Mother Play: (Mutter Und Kose Lieder): Songs Newly Translated and Furnished with New Music : Paperback : Friedrich Frobel, Susan Elizabeth Blow, Friedrich Fr Bel : 9781177386494.

The Songs and Music of Friedrich Froebel’s Mother Play (Mutter und Kose Lieder)

The Songs and Music of Friedrich Froebel’s Mother Play (Mutter und Kose Lieder).

The Songs and Music of Friedrich Froebel’s Mother Play
(Mutter und Kose Lieder)

Prepared and arranged
by Susan E. Blow
London: Edward Arnold, 1898

Read The Songs and Music of Friedrich Froebel’s Mother Play (Mutter und Kose Lieder) online at Froebel Archive Digital Collection or download as a single PDF

Mother Play: New CD Release!

This CD is a compilation of music from two books.  The first is the 1906 English translation of Fredrich Froebel’s “Mutter und Koselieder”(Mother and Nursery Songs), entitled “Mother Play.”  The second is from a different translation in 1895, entitled ““The songs and music of Friedrich Froebel’s Mother Play.”

via Professional Mothering: New CD Release!.

Mother Play CD