SINGING to LEARN: A MULTICULTURAL APPROACH to EARLY CHILDHOOD CURRICULUM

We are interested in education here, not in schooling. We are interested in openings, in unexplored possibilities, not in the predicatable or quantifiable, not in what is thought of as social control. For us, education signifies an initiation into new ways of seeing, hearing, feeling, moving. It signifies the nurture of a special kind of reflectiveness and expressiveness, a reaching out for meanings, a learning to learn.

Our core concern, of course, is with aesthetic education; but we do not regard aesthetic education as in any sense a fringe undertaking, a species of 'frill.' We see it as integral to the development of persons- to their cognitive, perceptual, emotional, and imaginative development. We see it as part of the human effort (so often forgotten today) to seek a greater coherence in the world.