Browsing by Subject "yhteismusisointi"

The purpose of the research is to find out how informal learning takes place in mu-sicing in Finnish elementary schools. Another aspect of the research is to examine how a class teacher’s role has changed from a music teacher to a music educator. The aim of the study is to enrich class teachers’ teaching methods in collective mu-sicing and to find out mediums for teachers to manage the challenging working envi-ronment. Music as a formal discipline as well as its particular characteristics, like informal learning, are part of the theoretical part of the research. The theoretical basis lean on constructivist learning concept? That is a basis for nowadays class room teach-ing. Due to the qualitative nature of the research the corpus consists of the inter-views. Six class teachers from the same municipality were interviewed for the cor-pus. According to the results the elementary school class teachers use informal learning methods in collective musicing. Three of the interviewed class teachers used rock band playing as a teaching method. All six of them took pupils part of the band and deepened their musical skills by assisting in playing. Main purpose of the teaching was to get each pupil involved in playing, find joy in music and enjoy learning. Yet most of the time pupils didn’t have a possibility to participate in lesson planning. Class teachers reasoned that by their responsibility to follow curriculum and by lim-ited amount of music lessons per week. Finally, even though teachers use informal learning methods in teaching collective musicing, pupils’ informal playing was not considered as a learning method. One of the class teachers conclusion was that fi-nal result looks rather like “a masterpiece of cacophony” than proper playing.