A general music curriculum : its development, implementation and evaluation at the intermediate school levels
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1980
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Gregson, Petrina Elizabeth
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Abstract
This paper is a study of the process of developing a curriculum--in particular, a general music curriculum. A survey of the status of music education in a local school system revealed that there was no general music education at any secondary level; the survey also indicated a severe lack of music education in the elementary schools, particularly at the intermediate level .
A review of authoritative literature gives a general basis for the procedure of curriculum development, dealing with both the historical and the theoretical aspects. Literature pertaining to the specific area of general music curriculum development completes the second chapter.
Part I of the Development chapter presents the author's Music Survey of the Kamloops Secondary Schools (1977), revealing that only 20% of the student population was involved with school music. The music courses offered were strictly performance-oriented: 97% instrumental and 3% vocal. The preliminary steps to development thus presented via the Music Survey, Part II of chapter three then deals with the practical application of curriculum theory to the development of the author's curriculum. The elements of the curriculum are set forth in this section.
The Implementation chapter analyses the various situations and problems encountered in the three local elementary schools involved. The Evaluation chapter deals with the actual means of evaluation used within the curriculum, including diagnosis of the student--both early and on-going, plus a discussion of the actual achievement of objectives and final student outcomes.
The concluding chapter summarizes the importance of aspects previously discussed and presents recommendations for future curriculum development. On-going stages of local development in the field of music curricula are examined.
Samples, outlines, and resource materials of the author's curriculum form the body of Appendix A. Actual samples of student composition are presented in Appendix B, and Appendix C contains the letters and forms of the 1977 Music Survey.