Effectiveness of Primary and Secondary Music Teachers’ Pre-Service Educational Programmes: Early-Career Music Teachers’ Perspectives

Abstract

The current study seeks to examine early-career music educators’ viewpoints on the efficacious of pre-service educational programmes. A quantitative methodology, namely questionnaires, was employed among 398 respondents at primary and secondary schools in Guizhou, China. This study also appraised other factors contributing to the perspectives on the requirements for pre-service knowledge and skill preparations. The results demonstrated that the pre-service music teacher education programme was deemed effective, although further improvements were necessitated for music performance knowledge and skills, especially choral rehearsals and piano improvisation accompaniments. Furthermore, the theoretical knowledge and skills in the music programme were considered less efficacious and required reconstruction. Summarily, an empirical foundation was developed for future revisions of the pre-service music educational programme and the effective resolution of existing issues to sufficiently train graduates for classroom instructions.