While studying for her Master of Arts in Music in Hong Kong, Dr Natalie Alexandra Tse drew on her natural affinity for kids by working as an early childhood music and movement educator, teaching babies as young as six months old to seven-year-old children. “The music lessons were fun, engaging and playful,” she recounted. “It was a very different experience from my own childhood learning music.”
“Initially, I was thinking about children at nursery level and how culturally diverse music and instruments could be brought to preschools,” she said. “As I experimented with different experiential designs for the early years, I found myself drawn to the natural competence of babies to explore sensorially.”
“I wanted to learn and better myself,” said Dr Tse. “NIE was a natural choice of institution for me as I already knew Dr Lum and our research interests aligned. Even though I’ve since graduated, Dr Lum remains my mentor figure and our mentor-mentee relationship continues. He supports my initiatives by being a third eye and ear for the programmes I run, which are aligned to my research interests.”
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