Kok, Emma (2022) Scaffolding as a Teaching Skill when Teaching Music and Boosting Musical Creativity. Master thesis, Psychology.
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Abstract
Scaffolding is a useful teaching tool to support student learning. It is a dynamic process involving the teacher providing temporary support contingent on and adapted to the student’s level of understanding, helping them progress further than if they were unsupported. In music education, teachers may implicitly use scaffolding, but may be unaware of this. This study investigates an intervention implemented during the research project ‘Creating music and creative behaviour in the classroom: The influence of coaching primary school teachers in following a Curious Minds approach’, in which teachers learned basic pedagogical strategies to use when teaching music, including scaffolding and structured autonomy support. Data from the above research project were used in this study to determine any differences in teachers’ use of scaffolding and the Model of Contingent Teaching after the intervention and explore a possible link between scaffolding and musical creativity. Results of Monte Carlo analyses conducted during this study indicate some evidence that the teachers’ use of scaffolding became more contingent after the intervention. Exploratory results also indicate a trend towards a possible relationship between convergent thinking and action in musical creativity and contingency. Further investigation is needed to examine whether the intervention influenced the two other aspects of scaffolding: fading and responsibility transfer. Moreover, further research to investigate teachers’ patterns of learning following such interventions would enable future interventions to be tailored to teachers’ learning trajectories. Keywords: scaffolding, music education, musical creativity, teaching skills, contingent support
| Item Type: | Thesis (Master) |
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| Supervisor name: | Steenbeek, H.W. and Hendriks, L.H. |
| Degree programme: | Psychology |
| Differentiation route: | Talent Development and Creativity (TDC) [Master Psychology] |
| Date Deposited: | 06 Dec 2022 13:56 |
| Last Modified: | 06 Dec 2022 13:56 |
| URI: | http://gmwpublic.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/1488 |
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