Lori A. Custodero

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Lori A. Custodero, D.M.A. is part of the faculty at the Columbia University Teachers College. According to a news article, Custodero recently studied children's "flow experience", defined as "studying how the children keep themselves challenged in order to keep learning new skills."^[1]

Custodero has a Bachelor of Music from the University of Redlands, MA from California State University, and D.M.A. from University of Southern California.

In 2005, Custodero became part of the Sesame Beginnings Advisory Board, which included other "national child development and media experts".^[2]

[edit] Selected publications

Custodero, L. A. Britto, P. R., & Brooks-Gunn, J. (2003). Musical lives: A collective portrait of American families. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 24(5). 553-572.
Custodero, L. A., & Johnson Green, E. A. (2003). Passing the cultural torch: Musical experience and musical parenting of infants. Journal of Research in Music Education, 51(2), 102-114.
Custodero, L. A. (2003). Perceptions of challenge: A longitudinal investigation of children's music learning. Arts and Learning, 19, 23-53.
Custodero, L. A. (2002). The musical lives of young children: Inviting, seeking, initiating. Journal of Zero-to-Three. 23(1), 4-9.
Custodero, L. A., Britto, P. R., & Xin, T. (2002). From Mozart to Motown, lullabies to love songs: A preliminary report on the Parents Use of Music with Infants Survey. Journal of Zero-to-Three 23(1), 41-46.
Custodero, L. (2002). Seeking challenge, finding skill: Flow experience in music education. Arts Education and Policy Review, 103 (3), 3-9.
Custodero, L. & Williams, L. (2000). Music for everyone: Creating contexts for possibility in early childhood education. Early Childhood Connections, 6 (4) 36-43.
Custodero, L. (1998). Observing flow in young people's music learning. General Music Today, 12 (1), 21-27.
Csikszentmihalyi, M. & Custodero, L. A. (2002). Forward. In T. Sullivan & L. Willingham, Eds. Creativity and music education (pp xiv-xvi). Edmonton: Canadian Music Educators' Association.