Music Education, By Christina Panagiotakou And Jenny Pange

Music education for small children can be very fascinating and beneficial at such a young age. Do you ever wonder how much creativity this can spark for a preschooler? In an article called “The use of ICT in preschool music education,” written by Christina Panagiotakou and Jenny Pange they explain a study analyzing the creativity of preschoolers. At first, the reader of this article could think “how much creativity can a preschooler really have?” While annotating the article, side notes that I would write would be like a phrase saying “Child development.” The reason I wrote that was because last semester I took an Intro to child development class and learned how an infant’s brain develops while it grows up. It was actually really surprising

Another targeted audience could also be school officials like principals, school board members or even teachers who may be interested into teaching music as a method to get children to be interactive. Some of the things that both Panagiotakou and Pange, who are the authors of the article talk about are the topics of how music software has been growing especially for young children. Them explaining that, answers questions like “how has music software progressed?” They also address an important question of this article about “if there is a lot of information about preschoolers and music education?” which there hasn’t been too much

Because of those two case studies, you can see that the authors are credible, they actually have done the research and took the time to understand plus explain what they are talking about. For that exact reason is why the evidence is persuasive because it makes you the reader, want to believe them by how knowledgeable they are and how much extensive research they have done. I found this to be one of the article’s strengths because the tone of the article is well thought out and very informative which at the same time makes it easy to read. One weakness that I found was towards the end of the article in the conclusion section, it was a bit contradicting. They state that the prediction was that the children in the first case study were going to be more successful but then at the end of the article they go on at say that the preschoolers in the second group were better. I found that to be a bit confusing because you can’t really see where the authors stand on which group was superior. But even besides this, I believe that the article’s influence would still be able to get across and you would clearly be able to see how music education for children in preschool is