ABSTRACT

The purpose of this study was to analyze the effect on the formation of concept map characteristics of a program in which pre-service early childhood music education teachers created a musical fairytale based on picture books. The program was conducted to 20 sophomores enrolled in Early Childhood Education for 16 weeks. This study had three steps. The first step was pretesting for content knowledge of music scale (Yoon, 2014) and concept map characteristics. The second was creating a musical fairytale, and the last was post-testing for content knowledge of music scale and concept map characteristics. As a result of comparing performance before and after implementing the program of creating a musical fairytale, a degree of content knowledge of music and concept map characteristics of pre-service early childhood teachers showed statistically significant difference. The result imply exerts a positive influence on the formation of pedagogical knowledge of music for early childhood teachers. This suggests that the program can be a useful tool for pre-service early childhood teachers as their curriculum.

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