• Journal of Music and Human Behavior
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.1-23
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• 2018

Recently, there has been a growing focus on the concerns pre-service teachers have as they move through different stages of their teacher preparation programs. Accordingly, the purpose of this study was to investigate pre-service secondary music teachers' concerns about music teaching and learning. The specific research questions were as follows: (a) What concerns are most common among participants? (b) What are differences in the concerns of pre-service secondary music teachers based on their stage of teacher preparation? (c) What are differences in the concerns of pre-service secondary music teachers based on their previous teaching experiences? A survey was distributed to pre-service secondary music teachers in a university in Seoul, and responses from a total of 93 participants were included in the final analysis. Data analysis indicated that pre-service music teachers experienced more concerns related to teaching tasks and student impact than themselves. Also, as participants progressed through their teacher preparation programs, self concerns decreased while task concerns and student impact concerns increased. Pre-service secondary music teachers who had previously taught in a school had fewer concerns than participants with no teaching experience. Suggestions for how teacher preparation programs can address the concerns of pre-service secondary music teachers are offered.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.20 no.10
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• pp.353-368
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• 2020

This research investigates how pre-service music teachers demonstrated pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) and self-efficacy during a 16-week Music Education Course. 37 pre-service music teachers underwent peer mentoring, and prepared teaching guides and class teaching demonstrations. At the end of the course, the 37 participants' teacher self-efficacy and PCK components (namely pedagogical knowledge, representational knowledge, subject matter knowledge, assessment knowledge, student characteristics knowledge, curriculum knowledge, and context and social knowledge) were assessed. Data on their self-efficacy and PCK were gathered through a group interview and their self-reflection journals, and analyzed as phenomenological experience research. Analyses of the data show that pre-service music teachers acquired diverse knowledge. It also showed that peer mentoring enhanced the pre-service music teachers' self-efficacy, enabling them to prepare teaching guides and confidently demonstrate classes. Thus, diverse opportunities in research and practical class demonstrations contributed to pre-service music teachers' PCK and self-efficacy.

• Journal of Korea Entertainment Industry Association
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.117-129
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• 2021

Nowadays, the trend of early childhood education has focused on finding educational activities to enhance quality of learning with integrative, learner-centered experience by combining each subject and domain. Pre-service early childhood teacher's music drama activity is a sort of integrated education including literature, instrumental music, play, art and movement that are included in the culture and art for preschoolers to help them understand role and value of the art and directly influence personality and creativity and motive to arouse interest in various learning directly. It's expected to see that development of creative teaching plan for the music drama using piano ensemble could support basic research in integrated educational activity in the teacher training course and also, activate the music drama activity. Research findings and suggestion are as follows. First, the music drama activities are systematically and step-by-step implemented according to the audience according to the cooperative learning and creative plans of pre-service early childhood teachers. Second, if understanding characteristics of casts in the music drama and assigning their roles efficiently, it enhances approach of pre-service early childhood teacher music drama activity and activate it. Third, making music in music drama activities can be composed and arranged to suit the musical literacy and level of pre-service early childhood teacher. Fourth, pre-service early childhood teachers could have integrated experience and evaluation efficiently in the short term to use as reference for the teaching plan and data for the music drama.

• Journal of Music and Human Behavior
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• v.20 no.1
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• pp.47-74
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• 2023

The purpose of this study was to develop a music teacher training program for global citizenship education and explore its effects on the participants' capacity for global citizenship. The program focused on multicultural education, including diversity and tolerance, among various topics in global citizenship education and consisted of practice to develop lesson plans for middle school music classes as well as theory about music in diverse sociocultural environments. The results showed that this program positively affected the participants' attitudes about a music teacher's role in the multicultural classroom. This program enabled participants to identify and reflect on any prejudice they may have against diversity and multiculturalism and to consider the role of music teachers in multicultural learning environments. The program also helped the participants develop greater self-efficacy as music teachers in multicultural environments and see music as a symbolic expression and a social and cultural product. Finally, the participants showed their positive attitude toward transformative pedagogy and considered various topics in global citizenship education beyond diversity and multiculturalism through multilateral understanding and exploration about music based on theory and practice in global citizenship education.

• Korean Journal of Child Education & Care
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• v.18 no.3
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• pp.35-49
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• 2018

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to analyze the prospective child care teachers' discourse on the professionalism of music classes infants and children. For this purpose, in-depth interviews were conducted targeting second-year students in the department of child care and welfare at the H university in S city. Methods: The results were analyzed according to the methods of Bogdan and Biklen (2006). Results: The results of interviews showed, the prospective child care teachers felt that it was too soon to talk about their professionalism and teachers' professionalism needed further education and experience in the field. Additionally, regarding the professional music classes, the prospective child care teachers were suggested to require the knowledge of infants' individual development, difference and interest. Secondly, to be able to comply with the national curriculum and build an integrated education plan based on the themes that of infants and children' interests. Thirdly, to be familiar with the teaching methods guiding what to teach and how to teach. And in order to possess such expertise, the discourse suggested that the teachers should enjoy music themselves, learn musical instruments to develop their musical abilities, and have a variety of artistic experiences. In spite of their efforts, if they do not meet the needs, they should overcome by co-operating with their colleagues rather than giving up the music classes. Conclusion/Implications: This study presents the practical direction of music education for the prospective child care teachers.

• Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.217-227
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• 2018

The objective of this study is to analyze the effects of music lesson applying the blended learning-based STEAM education on the musical knowledge and STEAM literacy of pre-service kindergarten teachers. After conducting a pre-test on the musical knowledge and STEAM literacy targeting 20 students(3rd year) of early childhood music lesson in Dept. of Early Childhood Education of C University in O Metropolitan City and 19 students(3rd year) of early childhood music lesson in Dept. of Early Childhood Education of D University in B Metropolitan City, the effectiveness of the pre - post test design was verified. In the results of study, the experimental group with music lesson applying the blended learning-based STEAM education showed significantly improved results in all the areas of musical knowledge and convergence, creativity, and communication out of STEAM literacy than the control group with general music lesson. Such results of this study imply that music lesson applying the blended learning-based STEAM education could be usefully used as a teaching/learning method to improve musical knowledge and STEAM literacy of pre-service kindergarten teachers in university education site in the future.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.17 no.3
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• pp.305-318
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• 2017

The purpose of this study is improving the teachers' self-efficacy for pre-secondary music teachers. The research questions for this study were the improvement for teachers' self-efficacy for pre-secondary music teachers and the pre-secondary music teachers' perception about peer mentoring. In this study performed the interview and analyzed the in self-reflection journal in order to identify the improvement effect of teachers' self-efficacy and the participants' perception change in the peer mentoring. As the results from analyzing the change in participant's perception about peer mentoring the mentors had the opportunity to review previous learning contents and practice experiences while developing their team activity and for the mentees. Mentees said that they were given various help from the mentors' advices and their interactions and communication with mentors. From these results, it could identify that there was positive change in participant's perception about the peer mentoring. Based on these results, this study analyzed that it would need to require some chances for pre-secondary music teachers to be given some educational practice and field experience utilizing various teaching methods in order to improve their self-efficacy and the perception of peer mentoring.

• The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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• v.6 no.1
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• pp.419-424
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• 2020

This study was to examine the educational satisfaction of students majoring in music education and provided suggestions to the college of education, Korea. First of all, 152 students majoring in music education in university, Korea, were surveyed. Second, the SPSS 22 for Windows program was used to conduct technical statistical analysis: independent sample t-test, one-way variance analysis, and cross-analysis. The result was that there were significant differences in the educational satisfaction, depending on the gender, school year, career-hopping professions, and individual efforts of students. College of Education has a huge impact on society as an institution that trains pre-service teachers who will teach future students. Therefore, based on the results of the study, I hope that the college of education will serve as fundamental institutes for the training of pre-service teachers.

• The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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• v.7 no.3
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• pp.19-25
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• 2021

The purpose of this study is to explore the effectiveness of teacher education using applications. To do this, we conducted research on pre-school teachers. To summarize the performance of the study, it is as follows. Teacher training was conducted through music creation activities. The subjects of the study were 56 students(29 experimental group, 27 control group) in early childhood education of A University located at Gyeonggi, Korea. The music creation activities using the application were conducted on the 10th week and the experimental research was carried out. Analysis of the difference between the experimental and control groups in the pre-test and post-test, showed a statistically significant effect on belief in musical teaching efficacy of the control group. The results showed that the teachers' positive attitude toward the role of teacher in the teacher education program using the application was positively influenced. The results of this study by taking advantage of new educational media of applications in teacher education and to provide a basis for exploring concrete action plans for utilizing the application in the teacher training curriculum for future educational.

• Journal of Convergence for Information Technology
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• v.9 no.8
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• pp.205-213
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• 2019

The purpose of this study was to investigate the perception and needs on development of lecture to promote creative personality of pre-service teachers. The subjects were 161 students in 4th grade in early childhood education department. The questionnaire was composed of 3 items of 'recognition of creativity personality lecture' and 7 items of 'demand of development for creativity personality lecture'. The data was analyzed frequency and percentage by descriptive statistics. In the results, first, most of pre-service teachers recognized the importance on development of creativity personality lecture, and support of 'development and application of creativity personality lecture'. They recognized that creativity personality lecture was effective. Second, more than half of them responded that they would take creativity personality lecture, and this lecture was most appropriate 2 courses and 3 hours 10 weeks per semester. They demanded a lot of propensity element among creativity education elements, convergence classes in various fields, teaching medium for 'movie and music', and 'portfolio evaluation'.