Today, music education is to develop student’s musical emotions, thinking skills and powers of expression while considering each student’s interest and aptitude, on the basis of a curriculum paradigm that values cultivating creative talented indiv...
Today, music education is to develop student’s musical emotions, thinking skills and powers of expression while considering each student’s interest and aptitude, on the basis of a curriculum paradigm that values cultivating creative talented individuals.
With Gardener’s MI (Multiple Intelligence) Theory introduced to music class, music teachers can develop every student’s various intelligences and increase their learning preference, further changing the existing music class into a new music learning form. Besides, this theory corresponds to the directivity of the modern education that respect students’ individual characters and pursues a whole-person human character.
Gardener insisted that it is necessary to apply a new teaching & learning process considering each student’s interest and aptitude, not a standardized learning process on the premise that learners have the same intelligent competences in the existing music education.
Thus, this study intended to propose a new music teaching & learning guidance with Gardener’s MI Theory actively applied to the music appreciation domain of the 2009 Revised Curriculum. That is, By breaking away from the existing teaching & learning methods used in the music appreciation domain, which has been limited to utilizing learners’ single intelligence, this study focused on devising a new teaching & learning method that can utilize learners’ various intelligences.
As research subjects, this study selected 7th graders in middle school, and proposed a new teaching & learning method that focuses on developing student’s intelligence more efficiently so that they can utilize their various potential intelligences while appreciating music.
Chapter Ⅰ describes the necessity, purpose, range, method and limitations of this study.
Chapter Ⅱ examines the background and definition of Multiple Intelligence Theory verified by Gardener as well as the criteria of this theory, the characteristics of each intelligence and implications.
Chapter Ⅲ examines the purpose of the music appreciation domain according to the 2009 Revised Curriculum, while investigating appreciation domain activities for each grade in middle school and teaching & learning models focusing on the appreciation domain.
Chapter Ⅳ proposes a 3 session-composed teaching & learning guidance for the music appreciation domain, focusing on not theories but activities, in order to develop students’ various intelligences and increase their learning preferences.
This study intends to help students develop their various intelligences through music appreciation class and provide them with a chance to recognize and diagnose their own competences. The ultimate purpose of this study is to help students properly understand their potential intelligences and improve their ability of introspection on their competences.