- Title
- Perceptions of African musical arts education in foundation and intermediate phases in government schools as seen through the South African academy since 2011: an exploration through meta-ethnography
- Creator
- Chirombo, Ilana Elize Caroline
- ThesisAdvisor
- McConnachie, Boudina Elizabeth
- Subject
- Music Instruction and study South Africa
- Subject
- Music of Africa
- Subject
- Arts, African
- Subject
- Traditional knowledge
- Subject
- Qualitative research
- Subject
- Ethnography
- Date
- 2023-10-13
- Type
- Academic theses
- Type
- Master's theses
- Type
- text
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/425366
- Identifier
- vital:72233
- Description
- The aim of this study is twofold: first, to understand meta-ethnography as a tool of synthesis; second, to use this methodology to explore perceptions of African musical arts education in the Foundation and Intermediate Phases in government schools in South Africa after 2011. Meta-ethnography is a methodology used to synthesise qualitative material by means of seven distinct phases: getting started; deciding what is relevant to the initial interest; reading the studies; determining how they are related; translating the studies into one another; weaving them together into a synthesis; and expressing the synthesis. This study synthesises five articles discovered through a deep search of the literature. Through the process of synthesis, a narrative emerges that connects past prejudice in music education in South Africa to present day educational inequality, one that looks towards a future in which children’s agency is harnessed in the multicultural world we live in to teach music in a relevant, contextual way. The synthesis extracts perceptions on colonialism and apartheid; educational access; post-apartheid curricula; music education pedagogies; informal music making; children’s games and agency; into the classroom; and how to assess. These themes weave a clear perspective on African musical arts education, and a reciprocal synthesis of the views of the articles’ authors. This study finds meta-ethnography to be a rigorous, understandable methodological tool for qualitative synthesis, one which serves the purpose of researchers, no matter the depth of their engagement with the synthesis.
- Description
- Thesis (MMus) -- Faculty of Humanities, Music and Musicology, 2023
- Format
- computer, online resource, application/pdf, 1 online resource (106 pages), pdf
- Publisher
- Rhodes University, Faculty of Humanities, Music and Musicology
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Chirombo, Ilana Elize Caroline
- Rights
- Use of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons "Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike" License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/)
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