My Epilogue

When I first started thinking about what I wanted to do my senior thesis research project on, I thought back to what I thought was an important part of my personal education and landed on the idea of music and learning. Growing up I found that when I learned something through a song or chant or even with music in the background I remembered it better and it was more memorable than other things that I learned. What I did not know was why this was such an important aspect of learning to me, and likely others as well.

As soon as I started doing the research for my literature review and was reading about how the brain processes music and how that works with the brain and memory it all started to make sense to me. What I think I and many others knew was that music was important for education, especially in early childhood education and elementary education, we just might not have known why exactly. I wish that there would be some kind of course or training that educators could take, especially those working with younger children, that teaches them about the importance of the use of music in the classroom. After learning all that I have during this thesis research process I cannot wait to learn more about the use of music in the classroom and I hope to find as many ways as possible that I can to include music in my classroom. This has opened my eyes to just how important music is in education and I hope that as I continue to grow as an educator I can help others to understand the importance of music as well.