Children's Improvised Vocalisations: Learning, Communication and Technology of the Self

Autor/in	Knudsen, Jan Sverre
Titel	Children's Improvised Vocalisations: Learning, Communication and Technology of the Self
Quelle	In: Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 9 (2008) 4, S.287 (10 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1463-9491
DOI	10.2304/ciec.2008.9.4.287
Schlagwörter	Singing; Creative Activities; Young Children; Learning; Communication (Thought Transfer); Cognitive Development; Culture; Self Actualization; Foreign Countries; Norway + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Gesang; Frühe Kindheit; Lernen; Communication; thought; Kommunikation; Gedanke; Kognitive Entwicklung; Kultur; Self actualisation; Selbstverwirklichung; Ausland; Norwegen
Abstract	The intention of this article is to explore, challenge and expand our understandings of children's improvised vocalisations, a fundamentally human form of expression. Based on selected examples from observation and recording in non-institutional settings, the article outlines how this phenomenon can be understood as learning and as communication. This is supplemented by suggesting a third possible approach which places these vocal forms within the frame of understanding implied by Foucault's term "technology of the self". This theoretical perspective entails recognising improvised vocalisations as tools used to "act upon the self" in order to attain or reinforce a certain mental state or mood--happiness, satisfaction, anger or longing--in short, as a way in which children learn to know the self as a self. In line with a Foucauldian perspective is also a focus on the negotiation of power and how music serves as an empowering agent in children's everyday social interaction. Finally, informed by Vygotsky's approach to understanding the relationship between language and mental development, the author discusses the gradual disappearance of improvised vocalisations. (Contains 2 figures and 4 videos.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10