title: Education through music--the model of the Musikkindergarten Berlin.
abstract: In 2005, the pianist and conductor Daniel Barenboim initiated the Musikkindergarten Berlin as the first kindergarten in which music is not only used as an occasional add-on but as the central education medium for the child every day. The skills of specially trained kindergarten teachers combined with regular visits by professional musicians of the Staatskapelle Berlin (the Berlin State Opera orchestra) form the basis of a new educational concept, in which children experience music in all its different aspects and in its unique capability as a transfer medium into all the other educational areas. In this context, the method, the aim, and the experimental ground is not only education in or with music, but through music. This paper provides information and examples about first-hand experiences over the last six years.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Occupational, Social and Environmental Medicine, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany. uibel@med.uni-frankfurt.de
authors.forename: Stefanie
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Uibel
mesh_terms: D001604:Berlin; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004493:Education / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D007858:Learning; D017145:Models, Educational; D009146:Music; D012574:Schools