Browsing by Subject "Musiikkikasvatus"

Objectives. The purpose of this qualitative study is to explore what kind of views music teachers have on teaching music, music as a subject and the situation of music education in today’s society. The topic of this study emerged from the discussion about the decreased position of the subject in Finnish society. Earlier studies concerning music teaching, its history and the special features of music education were introduced in theory chapters. Methods. The material of this study was collected from 3 participants, all of them working as music teachers in high school. The role of theory was directional in the analysis. Previous studies about music education were applied in the analysis. The material was approached from phenomenographical point of view. Results and conclusions. The results of this study were categorized into meanings concerning the uniqueness of music teaching and meanings concerning the situation of music education. The most important results describing the uniqueness of music education concerned its ability to teach other things besides just music, such as collaboration skills, concentration and creativity. Common knowledge was also seen as an important theme music can teach. The most important meanings describing the situation of music education concerned on one hand, the generally underrated position of music education in today’s society. However, music education was highly valued by music teachers’ school communities. Large teaching groups, the lack of mandatory courses and digitalization were seen as big challenges in music education as well.