This report documents a pilot study to explore and challenge ideas and assumptions about music teaching and learning processes through inter-contextual student workshops.
The idea to place an early childhood student with a university music student to work alongside each other in a centre to see how and if one could influence the other.
This project showed the advantage of a cross-disciplinary framework within a collaborative teaching and learning environment. The development of a cross-sector (i.e. private training enterprise and university collaboration) initiative was viewed as productive.
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Changing places: Exploring different conceptions of early childhood teacher preparation in music education (PDF, 400Kb)
Background:
A project, completed in 2011, that sought to challenge pedagogical practice through introducing child-centred musical activities that presented new teaching and learning opportunities for the teacher and the child. A collaboration of New Zealand Tertiary College and University of Auckland.
Research report prepared by Chris Naughton and David Lines.
Co-funded by the Ako Aotearoa Regional Hub Project Fund (RHPF)