scholarly journals South Korean parents' goals, knowledge, practices, and needs regarding music education for young children

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hyun Kyung Youm
Keyword(s):  
Young Children ◽  
Music Education ◽  
South Korean ◽  
Knowledge Practices ◽  
Korean Parents

Parents’ Goals, Knowledge, Practices, and Needs Regarding Music Education for Their Young Children in South Korea

2013 ◽  
Vol 61 (3) ◽  
pp. 280-302 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hyun Kyung Youm
Keyword(s):  
Young Children ◽  
Music Education ◽  
Music Programs ◽  
Children's Music ◽  
South Korean ◽  
Seoul Metropolitan Area ◽  
Korean Parents ◽  
Negative Case ◽  
Qualitative Research Methodology ◽  
Depth Interviews

The purpose of this study was to explore South Korean parents’ understanding of and desires for music education for their children. Following a constructivist paradigm and qualitative research methodology, data collection involved in-depth interviews, observations, written questionnaires, family music materials, and the researcher’s journals. The participants were 22 South Korean mothers whose children (younger than 5 years old) attended music programs in the Seoul metropolitan area. Data were analyzed by coding, description, constant comparison, inductive analysis, contextualization, negative case analysis, classification, and interpretation. Analyses revealed that these parents’ goals for their children’s participation in music programs included facilitating the child’s development, enriching the child’s life, preparing for future learning, and providing opportunities to play through music. They described the music programs according to the activities they observed or experienced but did not show deeper understanding about a program’s philosophy or history. Family music practices indicated that the primary activities were singing, listening to music, playing instruments, and dancing/movement. Participants expressed the desire to learn music skills and knowledge not only for their children but also for themselves. The findings of this study demonstrate the necessity of education for parents of young children relating to various aspects of children’s music education.

scholarly journals SOUTH KOREAN TV SERIES IN THE SERVICE OF MUSIC EDUCATION

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 133-156
Author(s):  
SERGEI A. AIZENSHTADT ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Music Education ◽  
Classical Music ◽  
Symphony Orchestra ◽  
Working Environment ◽  
The South ◽  
Musical Culture ◽  
Musical Life ◽  
Modern Culture ◽  
South Korean ◽  
Serial Films

In this article we study forms and methods used to popularize western classical music in a South Korean TV series. The main subject of analysis is the TV series Beethoven Virus (2008) devoted to a symphony orchestra in a fictional South Korean city. The main purpose of this TV series is the promotion of classical music, and the author of the article comes to the conclusion that its popularity among Korean audience is explained by its engaging, convincing artistic methods with respect to national cultural specificities, which were used to show the working environment of professional musicians. The series reveals real problems of modern Korean musical culture: “crisis of overproduction” of academic musicians; discrimination of graduates of South Korean musical educational institutions; prejudice that classical music is only for the rich. The author emphasizes that immersion into the atmosphere of professional musical life allows the viewers to apprehend the educational value of the TV series more clearly. Beethoven Virus demonstrates traditional Korean attitude towards European classical music determined by the Confucian roots; and at the same time, it depicts changes in the modern culture conditioned by gradual departure from traditional values. The two main characters — the young and the old conductors — symbolize the old and the new in the Korean musical culture. They interact in a traditional eastern way: the new spirit does not openly conflict with the established convention, but sprouts from it. The author suggests that the music is explained in the film through emotional associations which let the viewers fully perceive the musical idea. The author believes that this method, compared to other ways widespread in the West, corresponds to the nature of the specific sensation of European classical music associated with Confucian cultural roots. An opinion is expressed that methods of music education used in Beethoven Virus were chosen in accordance to the South Korean serial genre traditions: leitmotivs in the soundtrack and gesture clichés are of particular significance here. The author suggests that the South Korean experience of promoting musical classics by means of serial films can be used abroad — given that the differences in mentality and realities of musical life are taken into account.

Experiments with a musical machine: musical style replication in 3 to 5 year old children

2005 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-46 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Rita Addessi ◽  
François Pachet
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Young Children ◽  
Music Education ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Flow Theory ◽  
Musical Style ◽  
Observation Study ◽  
Technology And Learning ◽  
The Relationship

The relationship between new technology and learning is gaining increasing relevance in the field of music education (Webster, 2002; Folkestad et al., 1998). However, only a few studies have considered the nature of the interaction between children and musical machines. This article describes an observation study of children aged 3–5 years confronting a particular interactive musical system, the Continuator, which is able to produce music in the same style as a human playing the keyboard (Pachet, 2003). The analysis of two case studies suggests that the Continuator is able to develop interesting child/machine interactions and creative musical processes in young children. It was possible to observe a ‘life cycle’ of interaction, as well as micro-processes similar to those observed in child/adult interactions (Stern, 1985; Imberty, 2002). The ability of the system to attract and hold the attention of children has been interpreted through Csikszentmihalyi's (1990) ‘flow theory’.

From Seed to Song

2014 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 314-335 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claire Hollingsworth ◽  
Avis Ridgway
Keyword(s):  
Young Children ◽  
Music Education ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Case Study Methodology ◽  
Audio Technology ◽  
Study Methodology ◽  
Young Students ◽  
Affective Dimensions ◽  
Preschool Aged Children

Increasingly researchers are trying to show how new technologies can be used to provide opportunities for creative and more expansive music education for young children. Accepting that young children’s capacity for self expression is vastly underestimated, two young students and I set about musicking through an example of collaborative songwriting. Drawing on case study methodology using digital visual and audio technology, I offer the reader and listener an experience of the affective dimensions involved in composing music with two preschool-aged children. I challenge preconceived notions of music pedagogies for young children, and provoke implications for generating far greater vitality, self expression, and imagination in music education.

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