The development of social skills
through musical learning
Marjolein Verburg, MSc; Anne-Christine Wemekamp, Music Professor
Marjolein Verburg, MSc
Anne-Christine Wemekamp
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Overview
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Short introduction social skills
Singing Game
Difficulties in social skills
Learning social skills
The role of musical play
Singing Game
Evaluation
Questions
Social Skills
• Social Skills are the behaviors that we
use in order to communicate
effectively with other people.
• Developing social skills is one of the
most important developmental tasks
in childhood
Social Skills
• Successful mastery of social skills:
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Sharing
Taking turns
Allowing other to talk without interrupting
Smiling when greeting people
Showing appropriate emotional responses
Listening
Etc.
SINGING GAME
Difficulties with social skills
Two main groups
• Inhibited children
Symptoms: shy, stand at the side,
lack initiative, being bullied
• Disinhibited children
Symptoms: argue, shouting, bullying,
aggressive behavior
The development of social skills
Important task in childhood
How and where do children learn social skills?
• Parents/family
• Peers in kindergartens and schools
• Teacher as a mediator
The development of social skills
• Learning social skills (implicit learning)
“You cannot teach a concept, you can only teach skills” Choksy
• Social learning theory (Bandura):
people learn from one another by
• Modelling (teacher, peer to peer)
• Imitation
• Reinforcement
The role of play
Play is an important setting to
learn the implementation of
appropriate social skills
Internalizing social values
through unconscious learning
• Fosters peaceful interactions
• Verbal expression
• Listening to another point of
view
• Resolving conflicts
The role of musical play
‘Music is by its very nature a social art’ –
Leonhard (1983)
Musical play:
Unites social groups, draws the withdrawn into the
group, stimulates participation and sharing
Through simple music activities: subordinate
individual wishes to the goals of the group (cooperation)
Learning social skills
What they need to learn….
Learning social skills
Inhibited children
• Stand up for themselves
• Take initiative
• Speech volume
• Stand straight
Disinhibited children
• Taking turns
• Inhibition
• Emotion-regulation
• Empathy
SINGING GAME
Examples of social skills learned from musical activities
• Establishing positive relationships and maintaining positive
interactions with peers
• Taking turns fairly
• Showing interest in others
• Accepting and enjoying peers
• Interacting non-verbally with other children with smiles and nods
• Showing cooperation
• Skill mastery leads to an increase in self-confidence
• Self-control
• Showing empathy
• Performing in a group increases pupils confidence, social
networks and the sense of belonging to a group. It helps
individuals learn to support each other and cooperate for group
goals.
• Fun and interactive
• Practice, practice, practice
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