A1 Journal article (refereed)
Student teachers’ views of their own musical skills to teach the National Core Curriculum in Finland (2022)
Suomi, H., Hietanen, L., & Ruismäki, H. (2022). Student teachers’ views of their own musical skills to teach the National Core Curriculum in Finland. Music Education Research, 24(3), 327-339. https://doi.org/10.1080/14613808.2022.2053511
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Publication details
All authors or editors: Suomi, Henna; Hietanen, Lenita; Ruismäki, Heikki
Journal or series: Music Education Research
ISSN: 1461-3808
eISSN: 1469-9893
Publication year: 2022
Publication date: 17/05/2022
Volume: 24
Issue number: 3
Pages range: 327-339
Publisher: Routledge
Publication country: United Kingdom
Publication language: English
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/14613808.2022.2053511
Publication open access: Openly available
Publication channel open access: Partially open access channel
Publication is parallel published (JYX): https://jyx.jyu.fi/handle/123456789/81162
Abstract
As in many other countries, Finnish primary school teacher education has reduced substantially the amount of music studies during recent decades. From the perspective of the National Core Curriculum, there is a reason to reflect on teacher education and primary school student teachers’ skills to teach music. The present study investigates 392 student teachers’ musical skills in five different teacher training programmes in Finland. The data, mainly based on students’ self-assessment, was collected through a quantitative questionnaire. The results reveal significant shortcomings of music education in teacher training. For example, many key content areas such as singing or composing, are addressed extraordinarily little. Only 4% of the students fully agreed with the statement that primary school teacher education has given them good musical skills to teach music. It seems obvious that some skills have already been acquired from students’ previous musical activities. The results of the study show that primary school teacher education may be graduating teachers who are at risk of not meeting the National Core Curriculum goals in music.
Keywords: music education; teacher training; teachers; musicality; artistic talent; self-evaluation; curricula
Free keywords: primary school teacher education; music curriculum; music education; music teaching; musical skills
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Ministry reporting: Yes
Reporting Year: 2022
JUFO rating: 3