Music Education and Practice modules focus mainly on the South African school classroom music education curriculum, community music education programme structuring and management, as well as in-service learning for pre-service music teachers. It provides the students with fundamental teaching (theory and practice) and assessment skills in music education.
The modules promote multicultural music education and incorporate both Western and indigenous African-based knowledge systems of music theory, philosophies, and practices. It also focuses on the fundamentals of teaching and learning theories.
Music Approaches and Pedagogies
Western-based Music Pedagogy specialisations
- Carl Orff (tunes and non-tuned percussion instruments)
- Zoltan Kodaly (singing and tonic solfa)
- Edwin Gordon (Gordon music learning theory)
Indigenous African Music Pedagogy specialisations
- Meki Nzewi (African musical arts practice and modern African classical drumming)
- Kwabena Nketia (African folk music and dances)
- Robert Kwame (music, mnemonics, and movement)
Teaching and Learning
- Behavioural theories
- Classroom management
- Education theories
- Teaching theories and practices
Interesting research in this field
Contemporary music pedagogies
Cognitive development and music
Drumming and executive function
Other
The Music Education Division is involved in two community engagement programmes in a local community called Heidedal, providing a community music programme to local primary school learners (teaching music appreciation lessons, guitar, recorder, African drumming, and glockenspiel), and the Life Change Programme, an initiative by the Department of Social Development (teaching brass instruments and music theory).
Our pre-service music teachers are posted at Dr Visser Primary School and Sentraal Primary School during the year for practical teaching experience in schools.
Staff members
Dr AD ‘Sonkanise ka’ Nkosi
BMus modules, Indigenous African Music Education Philosophies, Theories and Practices, and Subject Coordinator
E: nkosiad@ufs.ac.za
Angelique Novella
Certificate, Diploma, and BA modules, Orff teaching method
E: angie@booyens.co.za
Werner Stander
Certificate and Diploma modules in Service-Learning, Gordon Music Learning Theory, Kodaly method
E: werner.j.stander@gmail.com