Not only the teachers who teach music but also the ones who teach children have become more interested in music education of young child .
The most important thing in teaching music to young child is musical environment, and this education should be ...
Not only the teachers who teach music but also the ones who teach children have become more interested in music education of young child .
The most important thing in teaching music to young child is musical environment, and this education should be based on the idea that we should focus on child rather than music.
Therefore, The objective of this study was to find out a desirable course of music education of young children and to provide a basis for music education by investigating the teacher's recognition for music education of young children and actual conditions for education of appreciation of music.
This study is based on the opinions of 141 teachers in Inchon and Kyung-Ki area, and the results are as follows.
The results from this study are as below.
The First, as the result of analyzing the recognition of kindergarten teachers for music education, they highly recognized the importance and necessity of music education of young children, and the reason for necessity of music education they considered was that music could facilitate development of emotion. They recognized that the music education of young children should be given from the prenatal period and that musical talents of young children would be influenced by innate factors and learned factors.
The second, According to the result of the survey, 10-20 minutes of music class per day ranked the highest. The content of the music class consisted mostly of sight-singing.
The third, Pieces used during class were selected according to the children's interest and familiarity. Teachers who preferred to use classical pieces for their class selected pieces from the Modern Period. Vivaldi's "Four Seasons" ranked the highest. In comparison with the volumes. Korean traditional music were also frequently used. In general, the lack of time spent in appreciation during music class was the leading factor in limiting the children from exposing themselves to various genres. Furthermore, studies in korean traditional music seemed scarce. Therefore, compilations and references containing various genres of music for the children and the teachers must be improved and enhanced.
The last, Listening music by young children could be possible when the children could listen, and the concept of the music could be learned by physical expressions. Among the Kodaly, Orff, Dalcroze approaches that can help understand the concept of music with physical expressions. Eurhythmics's Music Instructions, one of the Dalcroze approaches was suggested, to help teachers understand the instructional method of listening music by young children.
So for better listening to music education, we have to recognize the importance of listening to music and try to develop effective teaching methods. Also we need to study much and develop training programs for music teachers to improve listening to music education. In addiction to this things, we have to make good environment for listening to music together with the education of listening to music outside music classes, in daily life.