This study is designed to find out what caused the students majoring in the music education at graduate schools of education to study this field and what they want to do after graduation as well as what kinds of experiences at the graduate school of e...
This study is designed to find out what caused the students majoring in the music education at graduate schools of education to study this field and what they want to do after graduation as well as what kinds of experiences at the graduate school of education affected their career choice. For this study, the questionnaires were distributed to 110 students studying at 3 graduate schools of education located in Seoul and the collected data was used for the frequency analysis and cross analysis depending on the study issues. Among the free descriptive questions and the in-depth interview data were categorized into the topics by summarizing the responses in the words or sentences. results of the study are summarized as follows.
First, responding to the question of the motive for entering the graduate school of education, the students of music education answered the most with “to become teachers”. They also answered that the persons who affected them the most in terms of “my personality and interest” were themselves. In addition, in the in-depth interview, external motives such as 'recommendations of others' and 'job stability', as well as 'one's aptitude and interest' at the time of admission to the graduate school of education, In this way, it was confirmed that music education graduate students are the most interested in internal motivation such as their own aptitude and interest when they enter graduate school of education, while external motivation also influences decision to go to graduate school of education.
Second, it was found that as the future career, most students majoring in the music education want to become music teachers after they graduate from the graduate school of education. Even the students who did not hope to become music teachers when they applied for the graduate school of education, showed high hopes of becoming music teachers after their graduation. That shows that their experience at the graduate school of education has a big effect on their selection of music teachers as their future job.
Third, it was revealed that the education experience of graduate school of music education which had the most influence on career choice of graduate students was the major 'teaching method and instruction class'. The relationship with colleagues, who had an influence on career choice, was found to have a greater effect on the relationship with colleagues than on the relationship with professors. It was shown that with peers, they are influenced by 'the relationship between the peers with the same major', and with professors, they are influenced by 'the relationship within the class'. In addition, through in-depth interviews, it was found that graduate students of music education wanted counseling with professors and practical help for their career choices. Through these results, it was found out to be prerequisite to encourage career counseling and counseling outside class for students' career choices.
Fourth, it was also found that the students majoring in the music education wanted more support related to the information on recruitment of teachers from the graduate school of education. In addition, it was found that they want more practical experiences which would be good for their being teachers such as ‘more practical experience’, and ‘lecture made by actual teachers’. This shows that it is necessary to balance the curriculum appropriate to the purpose of the graduate school with practical educational experience opportunities to reflect the needs of students at the graduate school.
This study was designed to prove that the various experiences at the graduate school of education make a big effect on the future career for the students majoring in music education. This found out that most of the students majoring in music education wanted more experiences at the graduate school of education, which would be more helpful for their becoming music teachers, which was found to be their favorite career after graduation. It is expected that this study would make a positive effect on the making of the environment where the students can get more practical experience in education at the graduate school of education as well as on their favorite future career.