Browsing by Subject "taideaineiden integrointi"

The aims. The aim of this research, which was done in one elementary school in Helsinki, is to find out how the music teaching is integrated with other subjects and also to study the teaching methods, the quality of teaching and the time used for integration. When researching the integrative methods, the teachers' mutual co-operation and the curriculum as a guiding document of teaching work stand out, too. When analysing the music integration, the integration styles used in art subjects defined by Liora Bresler are used because their composition is very suitable for this particular data. The styles are the subservient, the co-equal, the affective and the social integration. The research questions are: 1. What kind of music integration methods do the class teachers have? 2. How does the teacher co-operation work especially in the music integration and teaching? 3. What kind of effect does the music curriculum have on the music integration methods? The methods. This research is a qualitative case study, the data of which was collected using a half-structured interview method. The interview was participated by all the seven teachers of the elementary school where the research was done. The teachers' descriptions of their own integrative activities were classified according to the Bresler's integration styles. The aims and the conclusions. The musical skills of the teachers interviewed ranged professional musicians to totally musically unskilled teachers (in their own opinion), which was also relevant to the integration methods. According to this research the subservient and the affective styles were the most used styles in the integrative activities. Thus music is mainly used as a means to teach other subjects or as a background music during the quiet working session. Actually there was no teacher co-operation as to the music teaching or integration. Only those teachers who teach music considered to some extent the fundaments of curriculum of music when planning the integration of music with other subjects.