- Title
- Who's teaching music?: a cross-cultural comparison of what music content is valued and useful to elementary classroom teachers in Australia, Japan and the United States
- Creator
- Degraffenreid, George M.; Jeanneret, Neryl; Kretchmer, Darlene L.; Morita, Kyoko
- Relation
- 14th National Conference of the Australian Society for Music Education. Over The Top: the Impact of Cultural Learning in Our Own and Neighbouring Communities in the Evolution of Australasian Music Education (Darwin, N.T. 4-8 July, 2003) p. 22-27
- Relation
- http://www.asme.edu.au/NatConference_archive.htm
- Publisher
- Australian Society for Music Education
- Resource Type
- conference paper
- Date
- 2003
- Description
- This paper reports on an investigation that surveyed elementary classroom teachers (not music specialists) in California and Colorado in the United States, New South Wales in Australia and Tokyo Prefecture in Japan. Through a survey, inservice elementary classroom teachers were asked to rate the influence of music methods courses and professional development experiences on their use of music in the classroom. The classroom teachers also rated the usefulness of music skills and knowledge typically taught in university teacher certification programs. The investigators were interested in the extent to which music skills and knowledge from music methods courses were utilized by inservice elementary teachers in their regular classroom instruction. Results indicated some local differences in what music content was considered most beneficial although there was agreement across locales and cultures about the general usefulness of much of the music content in preservice classes. A major finding was an inconsistency of music preparation among classroom teachers, with large numbers of teachers in both Colorado and California indicating they had no music methods courses in their preservice preparation.
- Subject
- music education; teaching; elementary classroom; Australia; Japan; United States
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/35560
- Identifier
- uon:4035
- Identifier
- ISBN:0957741332
- Language
- eng
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