Session Information
09 SES 10 C, Study of Instrumental Introduction in Primary Schools (SIGrun) – Empirical Research between Musicology and Educational Research
Symposium
Contribution
In 2008 a program called JeKi (Jedem Kind ein Instrument [For each child an instrument]) was implemented in several primary schools of Hamburg and Northrhine-Westphalia. The project's intention is to make it possible for each child to learn how to play an instrument. Therefore, primary schools collaborate with teachers from music schools who, as a first step of JeKI, give the children an overview about several instruments. Following that, the children can choose an instrument and learn how to play it in small groups. These lessons take place additionally to the regular music lessons (cf. Landesinstitut für Lehrerbildung und Schulentwicklung 2009; Stiftung Jedem Kind ein Instrument 2007). Background of the program’s implementation are the expectations concerning transfer effects as well as to enable access to cultural participation. So especially schools from areas with a low socio-economic status are intended to participate in JeKi. It is obvious that people with different points of views are involved in JeKi: students, their parents and teachers, music school teachers and principals as well as departments and foundations. Due to that fact several research approaches are possible.
In the last years, national and international research has been carried out concerning musical education (cf. Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung 2006, 2009; Schellenberg 2004; Bastian 2002). The results can hardly be generalised because the samples were either too small or can be characterised as convenience samples. Furthermore, different concepts of musical activity were used. In 2009, the Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung [Federal Department of Education and Research] initiated an evaluation of JeKi in the context of their empirical research program. Several aspects are focussed in 12 interdisciplinary research working-groups. One of these research working-groups is the ‘Studie zum Instrumentalunterricht in Grundschulen’ (SIGrun) [Study of Instrumental Introduction in Primary Schools]. It is organised in collaboration with researchers from the Institute for Musicology and Music Education of the University of Bremen and from the Department of Educational Science of the University of Hamburg.
SIGrun is designed as a longitudinal study and focuses on four different treatments linked to schools with a music or a sports-profile in Northrhine-Westphalia and Hamburg. This 2x2 treatment design comprises one group in each federal state participating in instrumental instruction (JeKi), one group in Northrhine-Westphalia participating in sports and another group in Hamburg participating in musical instruction which differs from JeKi.
Altogether, the sample contains primary students, their parents, primary and music school teachers and principals from 29 schools.
SIGrun consists of four subprojects. Each of it has a different view on the topic and each of it involves different acteurs. So the study closes the gap between psychological research on specific musical treatments (Schellenberg 2006) and international school effectiveness research (Bos & Schwippert 2004).
A superior datapool for all 12 research working-groups is responsible for methodological advice, the organisation of the projects as well as editing and processing data. The four subprojects will present their first results and possibilities of triangulation.
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