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[elucreh]

Dear Powers That Be:

HOW MANY ARTICLES ON MUSIC AND TODDLERS CAN THERE POSSIBLY BE IN THIS DATABASE?

BETTER QUESTION: WHY DO I HAVE TO LOOK OVER 830 SEARCH RESULTS TO FIND, MAXIMUM, TWENTY. DAMN. RELEVANT RESULTS????????

Seriously. I have clicked and re-clicked the "AND" option, yet it still insists on showing me a zillion articles that contain ONLY "music" or "toddlers." Moreover, there is no "NOT" option, and I am really, really, REALLY sick of getting excited and clicking something only to discover that it is YET ANOTHER article about music for toddlers at risk for autism, deafness, or other disabilities. Not that it's not awesome that music can help them, but SERIOUSLY, NOT WHAT I PERSONALLY AM LOOKING FOR AT THE MOMENT.

Also, this library is creepy. And freezing cold.

And I am whiny and petty and can't even feel ashamed of it. WHY DID I DECIDE TO GET MY EDUCATION, WHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHY?????????????????


Yrs in crankiness,
Lu

P.S. Why do all the promising articles cost money to read?

P.P.S. What the hell does that MEAN, "culturally deaf"??

Comments

[thalialunacy.livejournal.com]

Because NOTHING is cuter than toddlers making music?

And I don't even like kids, but come ON. NOTHING. Cuter.

:D

[elucreh.livejournal.com]

It's also really beneficial to their brain rhythms and crap! IF ONLY I COULD FIND THE ARTICLES THAT SAY SO!!!

[thalialunacy.livejournal.com]

And alas, I am not a Music Ed major, or else I could totally help you out. >.> And all my Ed friends are in class. G'luck!

[elucreh.livejournal.com]

They have to come off my database anyway, I'm pretty sure. I appreciate the encouragement, though!

[eviljen341.livejournal.com]

try looking up something more specific. Like what about specific methods used to teach music to children (Kindermusik, musikgarten, etc.) or famous early childhood music educators like Dalcroze.

Also, I just finished reading the most FABULOUS memoir on Childhood Education. The whole time I was reading it I kept thinking "Lu needs to read this!", so I'm sending it to you. It is translated to English from Japanese, so the writing isn't fantastic, but the story certainly is.

[elucreh.livejournal.com]

I don't actually know any specific methods/educators, and anyway most of them (so far as I'm aware) target older children; this has to be about children under the age of three.

Can I borrow it? I'm down for the weekend. *bats eyelashes*

[eviljen341.livejournal.com]

I emailed the PDF to you. Ev and I found an ebook version. Kindermusik and Musikgarten (don't know how to spell them) are both for super young children as well as older and I'm pretty sure Dalcroze wrote some things about early early music exposure too. I know there are other people (lots of other people) but all of my reference books are at home :(

Also try looking up the Mozart Effect. That should bring up things about music exposure at a young age.

[florahart]

What database/service? Can you simply specify AND (all-caps) in the text of the search (some you can).

Also, re costing money: are you coming in via your library's website? There are scads of journals which do cost money to read but to which many universities have some level of access due to licensed packages, but frequently if you get to them via some other means, even if you are sitting in the library at the time (and hence have a library IP), you can't see them.

re: creepy: fail. It's just silly to make a creepy library. *nods*

[elucreh.livejournal.com]

Libraries should not be creepy! They are repositories of knowledge and BOOKS, ffs. It is counterintuitive for them to be creepy.

[mrsquizzical.livejournal.com]

have you narrowed it down, maybe to .... like 'kodaly' or something like that? surely there would be something handy there.

and good for you. seriously. you're doing this cos otherwise you end up like me. :~P

[mrsquizzical.livejournal.com]

also, 'suzuki' could have some stuff specific to toddlers.

[elucreh.livejournal.com]

My problem was that my class is not actually regarding music in child development, so I had no specific names to feed the computer; I just didn't KNOW them. And by the time I did, I had already found an article. :-P I appreciate the suggestions a LOT, though!

(P.S. If I turn out like you I think I am doing pretty okay in life, actually. I pretty much do want to be you, only not with my own kids.)

[mrsquizzical.livejournal.com]

awwwww *cuddles you tight*

[flamingsword.livejournal.com]

Culturally deaf means people raised by, with, or around deaf people in a largely ASL-speaking/signing society. Similar to how a Spanish-speaking culture looks at the world differently, those who are culturally deaf do not view their difference as a disability. THAT is "deaf" to them, whether they can hear or not. It really is a separate culture.

[elucreh.livejournal.com]

Hey, that's pretty cool.

...of COURSE it was one of the articles I had to pay for...

[shellic.livejournal.com]

Wow, I watched an episode a Cold Case some months ago that showed this exactly. I didn't know how accurate it was because I've never experienced it or heard it from anyone else before so I had no way of comparing. That is pretty cool.

[flamingsword.livejournal.com]

Try a youtube search for 'deaf' or 'asl'. The deaf culture on there is getting huge since video blogging is pretty much the perfect medium for their language.