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Let's Yarn About: Aboriginal Music, Song Lines, and the Power of Oral Tradition in Early Learning
Let's Yarn About: Aboriginal Music, Song Lines, and the Power of Oral Tradition in Early Learning
Music is one of the first ways children make sense of the world. Before they can read, they sing. Before they can write, they clap rhythms. Before they can tell a story, they often hum one.
Songs soothe babies to sleep, celebrate birthdays, teach routines and create memories that last a lifetime. Just hearing a familiar tune can transport us back to childhood, remind us of a loved one or bring back the feeling of a particular place.
Music is one of the first ways children make sense of the world. Before they can read, they sing. Before they can write, they clap rhythms. Before they can tell a story, they often hum one.
Songs soothe babies to sleep, celebrate birthdays, teach routines and create memories that last a lifetime. Just hearing a familiar tune can transport us back to childhood, remind us of a loved one or bring back the feeling of a particular place.
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I want to start with something honest. When I read the headlines about the Sydney childcare worker charged with 329 offences, and when I think back to the Joshua Dale Brown case out of Melbourne last year, my stomach turns the same way yours probably does.
I have worked in the industry for over twenty-one years, I have also worked with a lot of the centres Hamish Tait visited and worked at. I know the educators, I know the children.
I want to start with something honest. When I read the headlines about the Sydney childcare worker charged with 329 offences, and when I think back to the Joshua Dale Brown case out of Melbourne last year, my stomach turns the same way yours probably does.
I have worked in the industry for over twenty-one years, I have also worked with a lot of the centres Hamish Tait visited and worked at. I know the educators, I know the children.
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