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Pre-Service and In-Service Music Teachers' Perceptions of Readiness to Teach East Asian Vocal MusicZhang, Yiyue January 2015 (has links)
The purpose of this study was to investigate and compare pre-service and in-service music teachers' perceptions of readiness to teach East Asian vocal music. Through a survey design, the study focused on pre-service and in-service music teachers' preparation, satisfaction, and self-confidence to explore the extent to which the two groups of music teachers feel ready to teach East Asian vocal music. A web-based survey was developed to explore pre-service music teachers' perceptions of readiness to teach East Asian vocal music. It was sent to 149 pre-service music teachers who were undergraduate music education majors at eight northeastern NASM accredited universities. A similar web-based survey was developed to explore in-service music teachers' perceptions of readiness to teach East Asian vocal music. It was sent to 132 in-service music teachers who were K-12 public school certified music teachers in Mid-Atlantic states. The two surveys were designed for pre-service and in-service music teachers to rate their multicultural/world music training regarding East Asian vocal music in order to reflect their preparation, satisfaction, and self-confidence in teaching East Asian vocal music. Data regarding participants' demographic information (e.g., gender, age, ethnicity, educational background, second language learning), collegiate course work, music education faculty, and musical experiences were also collected to investigate what factors influenced pre-service and in-service music teachers' preparation, satisfaction, and self-confidence in relation to their perceptions of readiness for teaching East Asian vocal music. Descriptive statistics (e.g., frequency distribution, central tendency, and dispersion) were used to analyze demographic data, responses to questions in Preparation component, Satisfaction component, and Self-Confidence component, and responses for the questions reflected participants' beliefs about teaching world music and East Asian vocal music. Inferential statistics (Cronbach's Alpha Coefficient, Pearson Correlation, and Independent-Sample T-Test) were used to analyze factors that influenced participants' perceptions of readiness to teach East Asian vocal music, and to compare the differences in perceptions of readiness to teach East Asian vocal music between pre-service music teachers and in-service music teachers. Data revealed that both pre-service and in-service music teacher participants felt they received inadequate preparation for teaching East Asian vocal music from their college training and professional development experiences, they felt dissatisfied with their college programs and training experiences in relation to teaching East Asian vocal music, and they did not feel confident to teach East Asian vocal music. The results of the t-tests suggested that no significant differences existed in the perceptions of readiness to teach East Asian vocal music between pre-service and in-service music teachers. / Music Education
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The Effects of a Chinese Music Curriculum on Cultural Attitudes, Tonal Discrimination, Singing Accuracy, and Acquisition of Chinese Lyrics for Third-, Fourth-, and Fifth-Grade Students.Tu, Ming 17 December 2009 (has links)
The purpose of the study was to investigate the effect of 10 minutes of daily exposure for 10 weeks to a Chinese Music Curriculum and its effect on generating positive cultural attitudes towards the Chinese people, improving tonal discrimination skills, singing accuracy of tonal patterns, and accuracy of singing Chinese lyrics for third-, fourth-, and fifth-grade students, compared to a comparison group not receiving the Chinese Music Curriculum. In an elementary school in Miami-Dade County, Florida, 6 third-, fourth-, and fifth-grade classes were chosen and randomly assigned to either an intervention or a comparison group. A Chinese Music Curriculum was developed for the intervention group and implemented by classroom teachers. Meanwhile, the comparison group received normal academic instruction and a weekly music class by a music specialist. Pre- and post-tests were administered to both the intervention and comparison groups: (1) Children's Attitudes toward Chinese (CATC), (2) Intermediate Measures of Music Audiation-Tonal (IMMA, Gordon, 1982), and (3) Tonal Pattern Performance Measure (TPPM). The Chinese Song Performance Measure (CSPM) was administered to the intervention group only in order to measure students' abilities for accurately singing the Chinese lyrics of a simple Chinese song, "Little Rat." Data were subjected to a mixed Multivariate Analysis of Variance (MANOVA) statistical analysis, item analysis, and Pearson Product-Moment correlation. The results demonstrated that the CATC survey was a reliable and valid measure to assess children's attitudes toward Chinese people. The overall effect of the Chinese Music Curriculum was significant in combination of the three outcome measures: CATC, IMMA, and TPPM. The follow-up individual examination revealed that children's attitudes toward Chinese people and tonal pattern singing accuracy were significantly improved, but tonal discrimination skills did not improve. Grade was found to influence children's singing accuracy of tonal patterns with fifth graders outperforming the third and fourth graders. All participants in the intervention group were able to sing a Chinese song with over 70% accuracy of the Chinese lyrics.
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Modern African classical drumming : a potential instrumental option for South African school Music curriculumNkosi, A.D. January 2013 (has links)
The Curriculum and Assessment Policy Statement or CAPS (which is the modified
extension of the National Curriculum Statement policy), Music learning area, gives an
option for Music learners to follow the Indigenous African Music (IAM) stream. This
caters for them to be examined in African instruments. Currently, there are no available
prescribed instrumental curricula in any IAM instrumental practices that learners can
follow should they choose the IAM stream. Therefore, this research was prompted by
the need for graded curriculum in IAM instruments for Music learners at the Further
Education and Training (FET) level.
This quantitative research focuses on the incorporation of contemporary African
instrumental music practices in the modern Music curriculum as demanded by current
trends, multiculturalism and multi‐ethnic societies with their emerging modern culture
which to an extent nevertheless still embrace old traditions. The research is
underpinned by the theoretical framework of multicultural music education.
This study comprises two sections. Section one analyzes the dilemma that the South
African Music curriculum faces when incorporating indigenous African instruments for
examination at FET level and poses questions on how and which instrumental practices
can be part of the possible solution. It revisits the epistemology of traditional African
drumming and investigates how some of the traditional drumming practices have
changed and are practised in the contemporary context.
Section two introduces a contemporary African instrumental practice whose
development is rooted in the generic traditional idioms of African drumming. This
contemporary drumming style is not tied to a specific ethnic group but rather a creative
continuum of African traditional drumming. This practice is explored as a potential
instrumental option for the South African Music curriculum (IAM stream); through
conducting of training workshops, progress survey and the evaluation of the
implementation process of the pilot graded model curriculum. Lastly, pedagogical
instructions on teaching, learning and evaluation of this contemporary drumming
practice are provided. / Thesis (DMus)--University of Pretoria, 2013. / lk2014 / Music / DMus / Unrestricted
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