ERIC Number: EJ1466060
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2025
Pages: 14
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ISSN: ISSN-1461-3808
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Preparing for Infants' Musicking -- A Tracking Case Study of a Chinese Family's Musical Environment
This empirical tracking case study explores the content and quality of an infant's home musical environment and family member-infant musical interactions. To this end, this study tracked and analyzed audio recordings of an infant girl's family life between the ages of seven and thirteen months and follow-up interviews with her parents. The characteristics and patterns of how family-infant musical interactions developed and changed as the infant grew were then analyzed through the concept of community. It was found that the parents' recognition of the function of music and their perceptions of the infant's developmental patterns jointly determined the manner, frequency, content, and duration of parent-infant musical interactions. In turn, the infant's growing and changing musical ability prompted her family members to adjust their strategies and interaction methods with the infant. Descriptive statistics and qualitative data were synthesised to identify the parents' distinctive views of music education. On this basis, the infant's home musical environment, the content and quality of family member-infant musical interactions, the patterns of change in the frequency and duration of interactions, and the possible reasons for these qualities are discussed. Finally, the limitations of this study and future research directions are considered.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Infants, Family Environment, Music Activities, Parent Role, Parent Attitudes, Parent Child Relationship, Child Development, Interaction, Individual Differences, Well Being, Incidence
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: China
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Author Affiliations: 1School of Music, East China Normal University, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China; 2Department of Chinese Language and Literature, East China Normal University, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China; 3Department of Cultural and Creative Arts, The Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, People’s Republic of China