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Student Teachers' Views of Their Own Musical Skills to Teach the National Core Curriculum in Finland
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Direct linkSuomi, Henna; Hietanen, Lenita; Ruismäki, Heikki – Music Education Research, 2022
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…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teacher Education, Elementary School Teachers, Music Education
Ruokonen, Inkeri; Tervaniemi, Mari; Reunamo, Jyrki – Music Education Research, 2021
The present study investigated the role of music education in early childhood education and care (ECEC) in relation to the daily activities of children ages one to three, i.e. "toddlers" (N = 918) in Finnish ECEC units (N = 327). A total of 23,142 random observations were conducted. The observations focused on children's involvement,…
Descriptors: Music Education, Foreign Countries, Preschool Education, Infants
Sutela, Katja; Ojala, Juha; Kielinen, Marko – Research Studies in Music Education, 2021
This ethnographic study examines the development of agency in students with special needs during an experiment of classroom music teaching in a special school. The experiment took place from August 2015 to March 2016 and was based on Emile Jaques-Dalcroze's ideas of music and movement as a means of developing competencies, skills and understanding…
Descriptors: Music Education, Movement Education, Video Technology, Personal Autonomy
Ketovuori, Mikko – International Journal of Music Education, 2015
This article investigates a piano-playing subject called "keyboard harmony." The subject was initially developed in the 1980s to give (K-12) schoolteachers the skills needed for accompanying singing in classrooms. Since keyboard harmony today has an official status in all Finnish music schools, both piano and general music teachers ought…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Music Teachers, Music Education, Preservice Teachers
Ruismäki, Heikki; Tereska, Tarja – British Journal of Music Education, 2008
This article reports on a retrospective study of Finnish pre-service elementary teachers' assessments of their musical experiences in nursery school and elementary and secondary school and real-time study of their experiences in teacher training. The participants (N = 590) had received musical instruction in five age groups (4-6 years, 7-12 years,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Elementary School Teachers, Preschool Education
Ruismaki, Heikki; Tereska, Tarja – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2006
This article studies early childhood musical experiences of Finnish pre-service elementary teachers (N=590). The article also analyses their connections between musical self-concept at student age and musical progress in teacher education. Research material was gathered by a questionnaire, which posed retrospective questions about childhood as…
Descriptors: Student Teachers, Music Education, Music, Singing
