Pedagogy and Curriculum
Little Kids Rock may be partly understood as an educational reform initiative. The pedagogy is informed by ideas from scholars whose work is familiar to schoolteachers from their professional training. The Little Kids Rock methodology is rooted in linguist Dr. Stephen Krashen’s five theories of second-language acquisition, and educational theorist John Dewey’s student centered learning ideas on the subject of student-centered curricula.
Little Kids Rock's pedagogy is similar in some ways to ideas expressed by music education reformers such as Suzuki and Orff. Both of these pioneers argued that reading music was a skill to be broached by students only after they had developed facility on an instrument. By weaving these ideas together with the theories propounded by Krashen and Dewey, Little Kids Rock has synthesized its own, unique pedagogy.
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