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Ages and stages: is that the same child I taught last year? The very young child. (Pedagogy Saturday VI).

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Kenneth K. Guilmartin, speaker

The following comments apply, I think, to any age, but especially to children up to age 8 or 9. Why include these older ages in an article about the "very young" child? Because it's important to understand that what goes right or wrong from birth to age 3 or 4 affects everything that comes later.

I think music educators intuitively understand that children can vary a great deal in both their capabilities and their achievements, and we make this understanding concrete as we acquire experience and compare notes with others in our field. But by and large our conclusions are not supported by a tradition of scientific ...

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