Matching music teacher’s self conception with students’ perception on teaching effectiveness in an unfavourable secondary classroom context

• Main Authors: Bo Wah Leung, Paulina Wong
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Ediciones Complutense 2005-01-01
• Series: Revista Electrónica Complutense de Investigación en Educación Musical
• Subjects: music; secondary schools; teaching effectiveness
• Online Access: http://www.ucm.es/info/reciem/v2n1_english.pdf

This paper aims at identifying and recording good music teaching practices that promote social inclusion, and at developing effective teaching strategies that incorporate student perspectives into the pedagogies. A music teacher in Hong Kong was selected for this study, and two different classes of Form 2 (ages 12-13) were observed. The teaching process was videotaped and reviewed. Afterwards the teacher and a group of students were invited to participate in a semi-structured interview to solicit their ideas towards good practice of music teaching. Findings reveal that the good practices observed were attributed to four factors: 1) teacher’s personality, 2) teacher’s pedagogy, 3) teacher’s musical competence, and 4) teacher’s philosophy of teaching.