Travelling Drum with Different Beats: Experiencing African Music and Culture in Australian Teacher Education

Autor/in	Joseph, Dawn
Titel	Travelling Drum with Different Beats: Experiencing African Music and Culture in Australian Teacher Education
Quelle	In: Teacher Development, 9 (2005) 3, S.287-299 (13 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1366-4530
Schlagwörter	Preservice Teacher Education; Music Education; Indigenous Knowledge; Music Activities; Foreign Countries; Music Teachers; Teaching Methods; African Culture; Preservice Teachers; Elementary School Teachers; Cultural Awareness; Musical Instruments; Whites; Blacks; Student Motivation; Student Interests; Australia; South Africa + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Lehramtsstudiengang; Lehrerausbildung; Musikerziehung; Musikalische Aktion; Ausland; Music; Teacher; Teachers; Musiklehrer; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Africa; Culture; Afrika; Kultur; Elementary school; Grundschule; Volksschule; Lehrer; Lehrerin; Lehrende; Cultural identity; Kulturelle Identität; Musikinstrument; White; Weißer; Black person; Schwarzer; Schulische Motivation; Studieninteresse; Australien; Südafrika; Süd-Afrika; Republik Südafrika; Südafrikanische Republik
Abstract	This article reports on a study that examined the effectiveness of introducing African music and culture to Australian non-specialist primary teacher education students at Deakin University in Melbourne (Australia). The study demonstrates that African music enhanced the generic musical experiences, learning, motivation, interest, confidence and competence of students in their fourth year of teacher education. The research also addressed the significance and contribution of African music and culture as a cross-cultural experience for these beginning teachers who in turn could provide similar experiences for their own students. This study highlighted the author's role and cultural identity as a South African music educator in transmitting the music and culture represented in "the travelling drum" to a cohort of students with a predominantly Eurocentric orientation. By extension, this curriculum initiative broadened students' understanding and application of indigenous methods of teaching and learning as part of a global experience. Such a curriculum represents a pathway to many other forms of non-Western indigenous knowledge of music, culture and pedagogy that can be mapped out as a journey along a multicultural route towards "internationalising the curriculum". (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10