Drumming in Excess and Chaos: Music, Literacy and Sustainability in Early Years Learning

Autor/inn/en	Powell, Sarah; Somerville, Margaret
Titel	Drumming in Excess and Chaos: Music, Literacy and Sustainability in Early Years Learning
Quelle	In: Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 20 (2020) 4, S.839-861 (23 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Powell, Sarah)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1468-7984
DOI	10.1177/1468798418792603
Schlagwörter	Musical Instruments; Music Activities; Playground Activities; Physical Environment; Sustainable Development; Multiple Literacies; Human Body; Acoustics; Self Expression; Movement Education; Observation; Preschool Education; Preschool Children; Foreign Countries; Australia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Musikinstrument; Musikalische Aktion; Natürliche Umwelt; Nachhaltige Entwicklung; Menschlicher Körper; Akustik; Ausdruck; Bewegungsbildung; Beobachtung; Pre-school education; Vorschulerziehung; Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschule; Ausland; Australien
Abstract	For children born in the 21st century, the enmeshing of natural and human forces in the survival of the planet requires conceptual and practical innovation. This paper comes from a project funded by the Australian Research Council investigating the integration of literacy and sustainability in early years learning. The methodology employed was 'deep hanging out', the purpose of which is to observe without bias or assumption. This paper focuses on a video from a preschool depicting children playing drums and percussion instruments outside, in the playground. We consider the nature of literacy differently, conceptualizing literacy+sustainability within the context of the more-than-human, intra-active world. In our example, the drumming ebbs and flows in intensity, children come and go, rhythms merge then diverge; a chaos of sound and vibration, a refrain of rhythm, movement and bodies, driven by the excess of the earth's energy and musical force. We see children communicate a sense of the world -- with drums, each other, earth -- sustained by the vitality of place, the materiality of drums and sound, the energy of earth and the movement of bodies. In this example, we extend the conversation around what literacy and sustainability might look like, offering possibilities for producing new knowledge about literacy and new understandings of sustainability. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01