But we had no song: A study of the long-term effects of a staff singing group on the status of music in an early learning program

This research has been conducted over a number of years and the aim has been to investigate music and its place in the early childhood program. The current paper reports on aspects of a teachers¿ singing group initiative. This initiative was designed to promote the visibility of music across the centre in a way that included specialist and generalist teachers and their different learning contexts. The teachers¿ singing group was established in 2008 and was documented as a practitioner driven research project from its inception. Returning to the study was initially prompted by an invitation from the centre¿s director who sensed that a number of participants viewed the experience as `unfinished business¿. We report here on the teacher¿s reflections of the singing group and the impact it had on the music program in the early learning centre.