Music education in school proves significant in helping students find their aptitudes, stimulating emotional development and fostering creativity.
Providing a temporary shelter from a test-oriented educational system, Music can designate itself as an...
Music education in school proves significant in helping students find their aptitudes, stimulating emotional development and fostering creativity.
Providing a temporary shelter from a test-oriented educational system, Music can designate itself as an effective method to normalize school system by tapping the unlimited potentials-the aptitude and creativity-, facilitating well-rounded education and even career counseling as well.
With due recognition of the importance of Music education, this study searches for a breakthrough to upgrade the current teaching system, identifying and analyzing problems on Music teaching on-site.
Based on the concept of Extracurricular Educational Activities and the study on foreign cases, this research first goes over the purposes and the current status: what these programs are after and where they are now, followed by analysis on preceding investigations.
Our efforts to define problems on these extracurricular activities were on case-by-case basis, establishing a subject group of 35 schools which implement the programs. A group of randomly selected 35 teachers and 200 students in these schools was surveyed on this matter.
The conclusion of this study is:
1. Class Organization
There should be a systematic music education in which first and second grade students are provided with various musical experiences and the older graders get different specific music lectures in accordance with their development stages. Besides, for superior music teachers, professionalism and responsibility should be emphasized by teacher's training programs about twice a year. For after all we need a music education expert, not a musician.
2. Program Management
The current music program lacks diversity and distinction, and have problems in the assessment and purchase of musical instruments. Therefore, it should plan different class time, various target students and proper class size, differentiated from the regular music class. It also demands systematic lesson plans, various assessment and ways to lighten students' burden on getting their musical instruments.
3. Public Recognition
For students and their parents to recognize the importance of music extracurricular education, it needs to keep regular public relations and open classes for the parents. In addition, an annual music performance and evaluation reports help the parents to get confidence in the programs.