ABSTRACT
Suzana was an early childhood teacher with more than 25 years of experience working with young children. She had completed her Graduate Diploma in Early Childhood Education and felt that the music preparation she had received was more in-depth than in Australian teacher training programmes. Music had always had a significant place in her education programmes for young children. She came from a musical family, had learned piano and violin as a child and remembered singing with her father as one of her pleasurable childhood memories. She would share these memories by singing the songs of her childhood to her colleagues in the Early Learning Center (ELC) staff room. The ELC was inspired by the early childhood education approach from Reggio Emilia and pedagogical documentation is an important part of the Reggio Emilia approach. Early childhood education traditionally has been based on child study and recorded observations, with their accompanying interpretations a major part of early childhood teacher training programmes.
