The Self-Reg View of Music

With this article, the natural question this raises for us is whether there is any reason to suppose that these discoveries about the powerful effect of music on the autonomic nervous system apply to the classroom.

There have been interesting debates within our online communities as to the effects of background music on the classroom. Like others online, I find this a distraction rather than calming, and children appear to be equally variable in their reactions.

But rather than looking at this issue in terms of the third step of Self-Reg – i.e., as some sort of “environmental fix” to reduce classroom stress – it might be productive to look at it in terms of the fifth stage of Self-Reg: i.e., as one of our “self-regulating” strategies, as dictated by the signs of escalating arousal rather than a pre-fixed timetable.

Read more about the #SelfReg View of Music here: https://bit.ly/SelfRegMusic