Culturally Responsive Music Instruction: A Self-Study in the Preservice Early Childhood Education Program in Indonesia

• In Event: Instructional Paradigms in Humanities, Social Science, and Fine Arts Education

Abstract

The study examined the researcher’s design and implementation of culturally relevant pedagogy (CRP) through a music education class that is part of a preservice early childhood teacher education program in Indonesia. Twenty-nine participants were selected for this study. The methodology was a practitioner research methodology (a self-study). Data collected from the course involved teachers observations, interviews, cultural artifacts, and reflective journals from preservice teachers were transcribed and analyzed using descriptive analysis. Findings indicate that linking multiple aspect of language about participants’ childhood experiences with musical activities encouraged the participants to be actively involved with musical learning, and the importance of becoming more aware of themselves as cultural being as a foundation to know other people.

Author

• Rien Safrina, State University of Jakarta