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Child-Centered Learning and Music Programs

that support a link that music educators have long suspected-exposure to music at an early age benefits children's musical and cognitive development. While it is exciting to read research and news reports on the discovery of the "Mozart effect," early childhood music practitioners must not lose sight of a long-standing early childhood education philosophychild-centered learning. Child-centered learning has been advocated by such notable practitioners and thinkers as Rousseau, Froebel, Montessori, and Pestalozzi, among others, and is the basis of many preschool curricula. It is as vital to children's musical growth as it is to their cognitive, social, and emotional development. The purpose of this arti-