Teenagers in adolescence have physical development and physiological development, so they are more sensitive and negative to their feelings. Students in adolescence could get emotional stability through ensemble activities, learn sociability through g...
Teenagers in adolescence have physical development and physiological development, so they are more sensitive and negative to their feelings. Students in adolescence could get emotional stability through ensemble activities, learn sociability through group activities, and obtain confidence and accomplishment by preparing concerts and performing in front of people.
However, the music education activities has a limit to satisfy students' right emotion cultivation.
Therefore, this study aims to look into importance of music education in adolescence and effects of ensemble activities on children's emotion. In addition, it is conducted to activate more ensemble activities in Korean music education.
The study firstly used the literary study to examine characteristics of adolescence, importance of ensemble activities, and successful cases of "El Sistema" which is Venezuela music education as the theoretical background.
This study selected a total of 69 ensemble members in two schools, Okhyun Middle School and Ulsan Women's Commercial High School in Ulsan city as the subjects. It obtained the following results through the survey on educational effects and improvement plans regarding their ensemble activities.
First, with regards to the effects of ensemble activities on students, they were helpful to students' hobbies, aptitude development, confidence, accomplishment, cooperation, cultivation of musical common sense, quality improvement of cultural life, and function of career exploration.
Second, the lack of practice, weighted instruments, and work load of teachers caused by ensemble activities were problems.
Finally, as to the improvement methods in the study results, students need to practice on Saturday without classes and during free study hours in the morning, realize the importance of arranging and choosing a piece, and activate mentor programs through cooperation between local communities and human resources. Moreover, parents and schools should change their perception.
This researcher suggests activation of ensemble activities as follows.
First, students in ensemble are not professional, but it is necessary to teach them through professional orchestra operation in order for them to play and perform with pride.
Second, the medium should be made for schools with ensemble activities to share data such as information about the ensemble operation and useful score for each other's performance.
Third, the ensemble and personal lesson classes need to operate for students to have a private lesson from experts of each part, which schools provide, to improve efficiency of the ensemble.
Fourth, teachers in charge of ensemble need to write a daily record of the ensemble in order to a replacement for the teacher to grasp characteristics of the ensemble easily.
Finally, constant study and efforts are required to evaluate classes and guidance teachers every semester and collect ensemble students' opinions to activate ensemble activities.