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by: Peter Perret, Janet Fox
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 371
EAN: 9781932594089
ISBN: 1932594086
Label: Dana Press
Manufacturer: Dana Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 270
Publication Date: May 01, 2006
Publisher: Dana Press
Sales Rank: 120511
Studio: Dana Press
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A Well-Tempered Mind investigates the intriguing connection between music education and brain development in children. Peter Perret and Janet Fox use the details of an innovative music education program for elementary school students to explore this fascinating relationship. A Well-Tempered Mind describes how the students of Bolton Elementary in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and a local quintet worked together and then explains the ongoing research that focuses on how music engages the brain’s cognitive capabilities, from memory and language to emotional processing. Music, A Well-Tempered Mind reveals, is a universal language that expands young minds in essential ways.
“The authors put flesh on the feeling shared by all music teachers that the experience of music enhances thought and learning in unexpected directions, well beyond the simple act of enjoying the sound. … It’s exciting and necessary reading for all who are battling to ensure the place of music in the school curriculum.'—Times Educational Supplement
(01/01/2005)
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Rating: - The Well - Tempered Mind
Peter Perret and Janet Fox have made a worthy contribution to education by telling a story of how music can affect children's ability to learn, to listen and to raise their overall performance in school. This book explores the way musicians teach and the way children and teachers learn from the activities described in the ground-braking Bolton Project in Winston Salem, NC.
The writing is engaging and humorous, but also serious and well researched. The book touches on different models of teacher ... Read More
Rating: - Well-Tempered
A Well-Tempered Mind, Using Music to Help Children Listen and Learn by Peter Perret and Janet Fox with a foreword by Maya Angelou
March 2004, Dana Press
"That is what I think the woodwind quintet is doing. Our musicians are playing to a fundamental language of the brain. They are evoking a muse that already lives in every child's head."
Harvard's Project Zero was named that because of Howard Gardner's belief in 1967 that "nothing had been firmly established about the ... Read More
Rating: - An Important Book
This is an important book for everyone who has a stake in the education of young children, meaning everyone concerned with our country's future. The book demonstrates what happens when a woodwind quintet visits the classroom to play music and actively engages the children in discussions about the music. What happens is the children's brain development is enhanced, together with their ability to learn everything in the curriculum.
This book provides a guide for school administrators and parents ... Read More
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