Development of Musical Creative Skill of Student Teachers in Early Childhood Education through Teaching Ukulele based on Kodaly’s Approach

Abstract

This study aims 1) to develop ukulele teaching based on Kodaly’s approach to enhance musical creative skill of student teacher in Early Childhood Education and 2) to study the effect of implementing the teaching approach in classroom. The study is divided into two phases; First, develop teaching activities based on Kodaly’s concept which involved with interview 5 experts on Ukulele teaching approaches and evaluate its Items-Objective Congruence; Second, study the effect of implementing the teaching activities in classroom which the samples were 30 second year student majoring in early childhood education, studying in the academic year of 2022. The samples were selected using purposive sampling. The instruments were the Ukulele teaching activities, received IOC at the highest level, and a musical creative skill questionnaire which contained 15 questions with a total of 75 scores, having the IOC between 0.60-1.00, the discrimination between 0.33-0.83 and the reliability 0.84, using the program to analyze the paired two sample t-test.

            The results showed that: 1) The Ukulele teaching activities based on Kodaly’s concept consists of four units, 14 activities: 1. the basic knowledge unit contains 3 activities, 2. the vocal and chord unit contains 3 activities, 3. the vocal and instrumental unit contains 5 activities, and 4. the music creation and recording unit contains 3 activities, which the contents received its IOC at the highest level. Each unit takes up to 4 hours of teaching, 16 hours in total. All units consist of four learning steps: leading, narrative, practical, and reflective. 2) After implementing               the teaching activities in classroom, it revealed that the musical creative skill scores of the student teachers were statistically significantly higher than before at the .01 level.