The importance of music in child education

Abstract

This work discusses music as a pedagogical tool used in the classroom to assist in the pedagogical activities proposed by the teacher in early childhood education, it is a facilitating instrument that contributes to the development and learning is an important language, because the child can express their feelings, develop sensitivity and ensure benefits for the social, cognitive, emotional part, help with orality and create a vocabulary. Music makes the class more attractive, interesting, awakens creativity and imagination, it is present in the child's life from the mother's womb and continues in his childhood and throughout his life in the school environment it is used by the teacher, it contributes to the construction of the knowledge of the child an instrument for the educator's practice, making the environment playful and pleasurable. Thus, the general objective is to know how music contributes to the teaching-learning process of the student in early childhood education. As for the specific objectives: to present the concepts of Playfulness in Education; describe the stages of child development; to point out how the use of music in early childhood education can help in the child's development.