英文摘要 |
The study aimed to disclose a public kindergarten teacher's characteristics of music teaching, as well as children's music learning experience. Relevant data was collected through classroom observations, interviews, photos, and the gathering of documents. The method of triangulation was applied to analyze the features of this teacher's music teaching and the process of young children's participation in musical activities. The findings of this study are briefly summed up as following: (1) this teacher integrated music class into the theme-project curricula, the music learning activities were multiple and flexible; (2) the course content included the activities of music drama, games, fitness, dance, and music cognition; (3) this teacher integrated "cognitive", "affective", and "psychomotor" as the three major dimensions in her teaching curricula of music; (4) this teacher cultivated children's sense of music, rhythm and music appreciation; (5) children demonstrated high expectation and participation in music class. Furthermore, the teaching aptitude of this teacher could be observed from children's positive attitudes towards participating in musical learning. Children attitudes changed from refusing to take part in musical class, to having high expectations of the class. In this article, the researcher also provided some recommendations to educational institutions, kindergarten teachers, as well as a direction for future research. |