| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺灣師範大學 === 音樂研究所 === 91 === The purpose of this study is to investigate the educational processes and current life adjustment situations of the Music Class graduates. Research goals are stated as follows: to know the history and current status of music talent education in our country; to investigate the contents of follow-up studies of talent education; to examine the educational processes and current life adjustment situations the Music Class graduates of various school levels; to forward suggestions, based upon research conclusions, to related organizations as referential points for implementing music talent education. Literature review and survey study are incorporated as the research methodologies. People who are graduated in and after the year 1963 from Music Class of both public and private schools at various school levels (aged above 26-year-oled by the month of June in the year 2002) are targeted subjects. The researcher, by stratified random sampling, distributed questionnaires to 500 subjects, and later drew 13 interview subjects based upon age stratification from valid questionnaire answerers. A researcher-implemented “Follow-Up Survey on the Educational Processes and Current Life Adjustment Situations of the Music Class Graduates Questionnaire“ was carried out to obtain quantitative data; “Interview Guidelines on the Educational Processes and Current Life Adjustment Situations of the Music Class Graduates,” constructed by the researcher, served as the research instrument for gathering qualitative data. Contents of the Questionnaire include questions regarding subjects’ educational processes, life adjustment, and personal information. Interview guidelines present questions that cover the past, current and future life span of the subjects; specifically, they are questions of the reflections of various study levels of the Music Class experiences, of their current life adjustment condition, and of their future life and career expectation and planning. Outcomes of questionnaires were presented by descriptive statistics such as frequencies and percentages. Qualitative results of the optional completion items of the questionnaires and results of the interviews were synthesized for comprehensive analysis.
The researcher presents research outcomes according to the specific research objectives and research problems as follows:
On the History and Current Status of Music Talent Education in Our Country
The origin of our music talent education can be traced back to the 1960s, since then its history follows the four trends marked by its related acts, among which the 1997 Act of Music Talent Education stands out. Music talent education-related research focused on issues including self-imaging, aptitude-identification, curriculum, and history & status. Music talent education-related research mainly took primary school level Music Class students as subjects. Follow-up studies of Music Class students are very hard to find.
On the Contents of Follow-up Studies of Talent Education
Worldwide follow-up studies of talent education show that talent students did well in their academic performances as well as in their self-development, society-adjustment; they achieved certain accomplishments society-wise. In addition, these research subjects generally took a positive opinion of talent education.
On the Educational Processes and Current Life Adjustment Situations of Various Levels of the Music Class Graduates
Personal information.
Gender ratio of male to female is extremely out of proportion (1:12) for Music Class graduates. They are mostly well-educated, 59.5% of them get a master degree. Their monthly salary clusters around NT 40001∼60000. They work mostly in the northern and middle part of Taiwan. Multiple full-time and part-time jobs are common for them; their jobs seem to match their academic trainings in most cases. The nature of their music-related jobs is varied; half of these subjects are high school or elementary school teachers. These subjects have high academic degree and good career family members.
Educational processes.
The higher grade level, the higher continual enrollment rage as far as whether subjects chose to continue their study in the Music Class goes. They take a positive attitude toward their studying experiences in the Music Class. They mostly chose to study in the music related departments when they got to the college/university level, and “interest” was said to play the most important role for this phenomenon. Based up the former research findings, it seems to illustrate that human resources waste does not happen in our music talent education; on the other hand, it may bring to light that Music Class graduates have difficulty transferring to non-music fields.
As to admission avenues at various study levels, aptitude-identification approach stood out for students to be admitted to the junior high school; Entrances examinations toped other ways for students to be admitted to the senior high school; Examination-exemption avenue played the most important role for them to reach the college level.
Life adjustment.
Music Class Graduates keep good life adjustment generally, except for those who suffer from exercising wounds because of instrument practicing. Overall, subjects view the Music Class experiences as exerting positive influence on them. They do not find life adjustment to be difficulty, and they are satisfied with their current life and marital condition.
Music Class graduates keep friendship with mostly people of music backgrounds. Above half of them choose to attend concerts, practice instruments, and conduct multimedia music appreciation as their leisure time music-related activities. When it comes to their future 10 year career expectation, above half of the 26∼29-year-old subjects plan on continuing studying and forming a family; above half of the more than 30-year-old subjects would like to keep a same condition. This difference might result from their different career status.
Interview results.
Opinions of the interviewed Music Class graduates subjects bear resemblances to those of general talent education follow-up studies, including rich teaching resources, intense peer competition, lack of interaction with other classes, limited non-music learning scopes due to intense music training. In addition, the life adjustment conditions form a parallel trace to those from general talent education follow-up studies, among them, talent people’s jobs are mostly professional work; they achieve high academic accomplishments; they outperform in most cases; they fit in the society well; they keep a good family and martial adjustment; they find life to be satisfactory.
On Suggestions as Referential Points for Implementing Music Talent Education
Based upon research conclusions, the researcher come up with suggestions for different organizations or people as follows: 1. for related administrative organizations: to plan and implement long-term Music Class graduates’ follow-up studies. 2. for schools: to construct follow-up database for Music Class graduates and regularly update the information; to pay attention to these students’ individual learning differences; to supervise their career problems; to provide opportunities for them to interact with non-Music-Class students; to plan curricula in a more systematic way. 3. For Music Class graduates: to foster non-music interests; to broaden knowledge horizons; to widen interpersonal contexts. 4. For Music Class students’ families: to offer reasonable expectations; to respect music talent students’ career decisions; to offer chances for them to deal with their daily matters. 5. for future research: to widen follow-up research scope year by year; to take more subjects; to continue longitudinal research; to conduct comparative study of talent students of various aspects; to involve multi-discipline team research corporation.
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