The Influence Of Early Music Education On Baby’s Social Development Of Emotion

Taking the early music education of Gymboree Zhonghua Square Division as an example, this paper adopts the method of combining the quantitative analysis with qualitative analysis to discuss the influences of early music education on baby’s social development of emotion from the point of theory and empirical analysis. This study is devided into two parts. The first part is observation and interview. First of all, combined with reference materials and practical experience, the paper summarizes behaviour of baby’s social development of emotion, and draws up a specific standard that assessing baby’s social-emotional development level. Then 12 babies from Gymboree Zhonghua Division are taken at random as the objects of observation(6 in early music education group, and another 6 in control group), and their parents are the objects of interview. Observing babies’participation and interviewing babies’parents. According to the standard of assessing baby’s social-emotional development, comparing these babies who accept early music training at the beginning with these who accept training after 16 months, and comparing the early music education group with the control group, the paper draws a conclusion after analysis. The second part is measurement. Use "Chinese 12-36 months old infants social-emotional development assessment scale", and compare 30 babies in early music education group with 30 babies in control group by quantitative assessment.The results of observation and interview show that after 16 months training, the babies’ social-emotional level is superior to that of their early beginning. Besides, most of babies in early music training group, their social-emotional level is much better than those in control group. It indicates that overall, early music education has stimulative effects on baby’s social-emotional development. Meanwhile, the baby’s social-emotional development may be related to heredity and environment.The "Chinese 12-36 months old infants social-emotional development assessment scale" also show that the scores of external dimension, internal dimension and dysregulations of dimension in early music training group are lower than that of control group, but the scores of capability dimension are higher than that of control group. The analysis has statistic significance. The scores of the early music training group further indicate that early music training might play an active role in promoting baby’s social development of emotion.There are some implications in this study. As for the early music education classes, they should improve the teaching system, age, and improving teacher’s behaviour and guiding level. Moreover, some music education activities can be carried out consciously to promote baby’s social-emotional development. As for the parents, they should realize that the social-emotional development has significant meaning to their babies’ psychology. In addition, parents should make their attainments better, such as music, improving and updating the ideas of raising babies, and providing a good family environment for babies’ social development of emotion. In a word, baby’s social-emotional development should cause social widespread attention. Furthermore, creating a good social environment, education environment and family environment which are helpful for this. While in many functions of early music education, promoting baby’s social-emotional development should arouse enough attention.