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 ba...
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 educational institution teaching young children should provide effective musical activities to give them aesthetic experience through perceiving, feeling, responding to, understanding, and enjoying music appropriate to child’s development.
We need the studies about private music institutes and preschool, each of which has different environment while they educate same object, ‘young child’. For young children to have sound personality, and to enjoy self-attainment and meaningful lives, we should understand the current real condition of music education of young child and establish the future course by studying it through teachers in private music institutes and preschool.
According to this, the purpose of this study is to provide basic data in establishing an effective guiding plan through recognizing and improving strong and weak points of the private music institutes and preschool by surveying differences in understanding and the realities of teachers of each institutes.
This study is based on the opinions of 92 preschool teachers and 103 teachers in private music institutes in Seoul and Kyung-Ki area, and the results are as follows.
The first, they suggested the creative expression of child’s thinking and feeling through music as the most important purpose of music education of young child.
The second, they considered that equipment, the condition, and social environment are important for more desirable improvement of music education of young child.
The last, while 97.8 % of preschool teachers knowing about music education of young child in the curriculum, only 50.5 % of teachers know about this, which arouses serious concern about music education of young child.
Based on these results, I suggest, in this study, as follows to provide hints for desirable development of music education of young child.
The first, we should improve equipment and conditions more, and cultivate teachers ability for desirable music education to be put in effect.
The second, education about various musical instruments and about appreciation of music should be provided to preschool teachers.
The third, teachers in private music institutes should deepen their understanding about curriculum of education of young child to give appropriate music education according to the development of each child.
The last, proper education about appreciation of music, through which young child will be given the chance to listen to wider range of music should be achieved.