Nursery World - Learning & Development: Music

The Babysong Project has been looking at how singing and song can
establish intimacy between practitioners and babies. Vanessa Young
explains

As I enter the nursery, the first thing I hear is a song: educator Kerryn is rocking baby Ivan...and crooning in Chinese (his native language). They look into each other's eyes and I notice the baby's intense gaze at Kerryn's face. Her voice and body language convey the qualities of infant directed singing and Ivan relaxes to the soothing melody and slow tempo of a lullaby.' (Niland, 2014)

This scenario perfectly illustrates the aim of our Babysong Project: to establish the nature and place of intimacy between early years practitioners and the babies in their care through singing and song. The project team worked with practitioners with responsibility for the very youngest children in daycare settings to achieve this.

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