Purpose of using songs and poetry in the Malaysian primary school

SUBAIDI HAFIZAH AMIRUL

Intra-Personal & Inter-Personal Development

Each one of us has our own thoughts , emotions, senses and imagination which make us unique as individuals. These personal traits , properly nurtured, help in a child 's effective and social development and will shape him into an integrated and well balanced individual. So our objectives are to make children confident by developing in them high self -esteem and social skills, so that they can establish effective relationship with fellows students and adults. These are achieved through the following activities : Group Activities : Children are encourage to respect each other's thoughts and opinions by participating in such activities.

Aesthetic development
Aesthetic development is the theory that artistic appreciation is linked to human development. Some theorists in this field describe specific stages of aesthetic development. Others try to accurately describe the role of aesthetics in development or delineate strategies for encouraging development both in aesthetic appreciation and art production.

Aesthetic development
Masami Toku In his article, "Children's Artistic and Aesthetic Development: The Influence of Pop-Culture in Children's Drawings," presented at the International Society for Education through Art convention in New York in 2002, MasamiToku, Ed.D., of California State University, Chico, describes a theory of aesthetic development that is based not in art appreciation, but art production. He looks at the ways that children in Japan and other countries draw to determine if there are universal patterns in the development of aesthetic skills.

Linguistic development
Andrew Pudewa The Institute for Excellence in Writing According to Mr. Pudewa, one cannot pull out of a brain what was not there to begin with. For example, if one has not learned algebra, algebra will not be stored in one's brain and therefore cannot be pulled out of one's brain upon demand

Linguistic development
Poetry, is most effective for memorization because the repetition and memorization of poetry serves to internalize the sophisticated language patterns and vocabulary that can be found most concentrated in poetry. In poetry, you can hear and learn to use words not normally used, for a poet must use very sophisticated language patterns and vocabulary in order to write within the confines of poetic meter. In a well-written poem you can find sophisticated sentences, phrases, verbs, vocabulary, rhymes, and other building blocks of excellent speech and writing.

Moral values
Nowadays , character building was given more emphasis in schools and at home. Qualities like honesty, filial piety, kindness, courage and others were instilled in students from young through fables, folk tales of many lands, and poems. In analysing the qualities of the characters in the stories and poems, students also develop emotionally.