A Study of School Music Curriculum I : A Report on Music Curriculum at Junior High Schools in Yamaguchi Prefecture (No.1)

Abstract

Hardly any systematic relationships can be seen among objectives, contents, methods and evaluations of school music curriculums in Japan. Because curriculum research essentially has its roots in educational practice, our research of music curriculums should also start with grasping the realities of teaching-learning situations. We surveyed 287 junior high school music teachers in Yamaguchi prefecture and asked them about music curriculum construction. In these theses, we have tried to analyze the results of the questionnaire on music curriculum construction and have added some considerations to them. We have limited our considerations in this thesis only to the first half of the questionnaire, so a thorough consideration of the whole questionnaire will be reserved to the following theses.