TOWARDS A PARADIGM OF PRODUCTIVE MUSIC EDUCATION.

A major change has occurred in schools, in teacher education and in general in Finland as well as other western countries. The latest Finnish national core curriculum emphasizes the importance of offering the pupils regular opportunities to compose, create music together and improvise (National Core Curriculum for Basic Education, 2014). This article investigates the use of new technologies in teaching productive music education and explores the attitudes and conceptions of students specializing in music regarding the new ideas of productive music education (which presented in the article) and how to use them. The research was carried out among a group of students (N=8) specializing in music at the School of Applied Educational Science and Teacher Education of the University of Eastern Finland in Joensuu. The results clearly show a significant need for productive, pupil-centred education and add support to earlier research in defining a new direction and paradigm for music education for the future. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]