Feeling the Music Teaching Instrumental Music through Drama in Education: An Interdisciplinary Approach

Abstract

This study uses Drama in Education as an effective medium of knowledge transfer and an interdisciplinary approach to Music Education. In this way, the study demonstrates that Drama in Education as an effective pedagogical method and strategy is a complementary pedagogical model to Music in Education in the teaching and learning process. Drama in Education is discussed in the context of the development of Music Education and Instrumental Music Education in contemporary Chinese educational contexts. Drawn out and argued for are the objectives to be achieved by working through an interdisciplinary approach when teaching Instrumental Music. This dissertation uses books, internet resources, and secondary sources through a profound interrogation of the literature in this desk-based study highlighting Chinese Music Education and Instrumental Music Education. This is argued that Drama in Education contains the pedagogical methodologies to complement and enrich Music Education pedagogies, with a specific focus on Instrumental Music. As an end and starting point for the approach from a praxis perspective, the researcher created a conceptual Teacher Resource bundle to help music teachers grasp Instrumental Music teaching through Drama in Education, explicitly emphasising the expressive elements. Through a comprehensive review of the literature, this work argues that Drama in Education pedagogies may be employed as an effective educational tool and strategy in Instrumental Music Education. The work is also timely in response to the teaching methods and learning processes currently advocated for in Chinese Music Education policy documents and Instrumental Music Education. As Resource Pack, this work offers practical new instructional approaches and paradigms for musical expression; a pack that is actively built from work, the evidence and the argument of this dissertation.