The New Music Curriculum With a New Music Education Concept

Year 2019, Volume: 14 Issue: 3, 247 - 253, 08.07.2019

Alev Müezzinoğlu Başak Gorgoretti

Abstract

The change and developments in the world have led to discussions on the
concept of contemporary music education. Changing learner profiles, music
teaching approaches adapted to present, and the changes in the way people
perceive music, there is now a need for revision in music curriculums.
Globalization and the rapid advances in technology at present point towards a
need to revise and change the contents of the curricula. The Turkish Republic
of Northern Cyprus Basic Education program development project was initiated in
2013, and the curricula for all courses came into force in 2016. In the first
part of the study, the structure of the TRNC new music curriculum, the learning
areas, and the relation between the curriculum and the learning outcomes are
discussed. Next, the characteristics of the intended student profile together
with the curriculum are explained, and the local and universal elements dealt
within the curriculum are exhibited. Finally, ideas and suggestions are
proposed. 

Keywords

Curriculum, Listening, Performing, Creating, Competence

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