The role of the family for revealing and improving the musical talents of pre-school children

Abstract

Music education, which enables the cognitive, emotional and psychomotor development of individuals, is an indispensable element of modern education. Besides, music enables individual to establish communication with his /her environment more easily and express his/her feelings more easily and thus contributes to the development of social skills and self-confidence. In the pre-school period, the accurate determination of children’s talents and planning of their music education are of great importance because music education is to be approached methodologically and consciously and started at an early age. As Kodaly, who argues that music education starts as early as the pre-natal period, states family is of great importance in music education. One of the most important factors that encourage the children for musical education are the parents and the home atmosphere. Therefore, family plays an important part in the emergence and development of the child’s musical talent at an early age. In this study in which families’ consciousness levels and approaches in the emergence and development of pre-school children’s musical talents are examined, the survey model, which is one of the qualitative study techniques, was used n. The analysis of the data obtained has been made using Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS17:00). According to the results of the study, it was observed that although the frequency parents sing with their children, listen to music and play musical games with their children is good, the frequency they take their children to musical activities, follow musical activities at school and provide them private music education is low