Teaching songs from diverse cultures to pre-service teachers using a “Four Step Flipped” method

Abstract

As music educators around the globe continue to work in blended environments, it is important to explore how pedagogical approaches can be adapted and reimagined in ways that enhance teaching and learning in this changing educational landscape. In this study, the authors drew on elements of Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) to teach three culturally diverse songs to pre-service teachers at a Spanish university. Acting as culture bearers and tertiary music educators, they selected and taught songs from three different geographic locations (South Africa, Sri Lanka, and the United States). Utilizing a descriptive case study design, the authors discuss their pedagogical approach and argue a Four Step Flip method (Asynchronous, Synchronous, Face-to-Face, and Hybrid Feedback) can be effectively applied and adopted in online music teaching and learning settings. This model prioritizes the culture bearers’ involvement in the learning process from start to finish while allowing students ample space to merge unfamiliar cultural perspectives with their own. The authors also contend building collaborative networks that extend beyond national borders can enhance understanding and appreciation of different genres, cultures, and languages in music classrooms.

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“…This method can be adopted for online teaching as well, especially when using an LMS to provide required content for learning beforehand. Flipping materials help students to explore and study the content before coming to the online class (Nethsinghe et al, 2022). Recent research on the flipped classroom and medical education has suggested that knowledge, skills, and behavior change with the flipped classroom curriculum (Goldberg, 2014;Persky & McLaughlin, 2017).…”

“Debemos erradicar el miedo a las diferencias”: percepciones de estudiantes universitarios acerca de la educación musical multicultural

“…La educación musical es especialmente sensible a este aspecto (Shaw y Mayo, 2021). El Four Step Flipped Method (Nethsinghe et al, 2023) resultó ser un enfoque educativo útil para generar situaciones de aprendizaje que permitan al alumnado desarrollar conocimientos y habilidades relacionadas con el aprendizaje de la música y modelos educativos preocupados con la inclusión y que potencien el cultivo de una mentalidad global en el estudiantado (Mellizo y Cabedo-Mas, 2022).…”

“…El alumnado valoró el entorno en línea como una forma de abrir nuevas ventanas de oportunidades para interactuar con mediadores culturales en tiempo real (Nethsinghe et al, 2023). Si bien existen innumerables beneficios y desventajas de la enseñanza y el aprendizaje en línea, los autores señalan el Four Step Flipped Method como un posible modelo para vehicular la enseñanza colaborativa transnacional en entornos híbridos.…”

“…Este documento se basa en una investigación en curso que pretende promover la comprensión del alumnado acerca de la enseñanza de canciones de diferentes países utilizando tecnología, al tiempo que busca construir una comunidad de práctica (Mellizo et al, 2023;Nethsinghe et al, 2023). La idea de la colaboración y el trabajo transfronterizo no es un fenómeno nuevo, y pese a que cuesta tiempo configurarlo, conlleva innumerables beneficios (Nagar y Ali, 2003).…”