MI-Pro website editor, Laura Barnes, says: “It is time to make music lessons accessible for every child.”
Category: Mental health and wellbeing
Big Noise Torry helps disadvantaged children in Aberdeen
According to a recent research report, Sistema Scotland’s social change programme in Aberdeen – Big Noise Torry – has enhanced participants’ ability to learn in school, improved academic and behavioural skills, boosted school attendance rates, and improved their emotional wellbeing.
Singing calms baby longer than talking
A study by the University of Montreal showed that infants remained calm twice as long when listening to a song, as they did when listening to speech.
Music work with vulnerable young people in Suffolk shows significant impact on wellbeing
A year-long impact study finds that Noise Solution’s fusing of informal music outreach and digital narrative work is “Statistically significant” in impacting on the wellbeing of participants in challenging circumstances.
U2-funded Music Generation says music education needs diverse approaches
According to new research by Music Generation – Ireland’s national music education programme which aims to ensure that children and young people, regardless of their background, have access to music education – young people don’t have to be the next Mozart to gain benefits from music education.
Music lessons may regulate children’s aggressive behaviour
Enrolling children in music lessons may help them to control the tendency to become aggressive, according to a new study.
