Music teachers' perceptions of teaching multicultural music in Malaysia
The purpose of this study was to investigate the perceptions of the music teachers associated to the teaching of multicultural music education in Malaysian primary schools. The data were collected through semi-structured interviews. The findings that were examined in this paper address the follow...
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| Format: | Conference or Workshop Item |
| Language: | English |
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2016
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| Online Access: | http://eprints.um.edu.my/16505/1/0001.pdf http://eprints.um.edu.my/16505/ |
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| Summary: | The purpose of this study was to investigate the perceptions of the music teachers associated
to the teaching of multicultural music education in Malaysian primary schools. The data
were collected through semi-structured interviews. The findings that were examined in this
paper address the following research questions: l)What are the perceptions of music teachers
regarding multicultural music education provided by their teacher training programs? 2)
What aspects of teaching multicultural music education do music teachers perceive as most
challenging? 3) What teaching approaches and activities are the most appropriate for
multicultural music in the primary music classes? The findings revealed that music teachers
reported that they did not have adequate multicultural training during their college courses.
Besides, there is limited implementation of multicultural music education in music
classrooms due to that many music teachers do not possess appropriate multicultural music
knowledge and resources to teach multicultural music. Music teachers also reported that the
activities and approaches used in class must involve the students actively, rather than
passively receptive and also need to allow them to obtain first-hand experience of playing
the traditional musical instruments. Therefore, music teacher training programmes are
needed in order to address both the theoretical and practical aspects of multicultural music
education throughout the curriculum in a comprehensive and long-term manner. Implications
for multicultural music teaching and research were discussed in this paper. |
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