Intercultural Competencies for Education and Training the Prospective Music Teachers

摘要

This paper is the result of a preliminary study aimed at designing intercultural competence models for education and training of music teacher prospective. This design begins with field studies to discover what is needed for music students to be competent and effective to teach in a diverse class. The method that used to obtain the data in this research is grounded theory. This method is used as a strategy to acquire concepts or theories based on a needs analysis of intercultural competence through a process, action and interaction from the point of view of music students. This method will be designed in order to obtain the characteristics of, 1) the constant comparisons between data needs of intercultural competence based on field studies, 2) theoretical sampling of the different participants to acquire and maximize the similarity from the difference of information. All of that becomes a reference to develop the concept, design and implementation of the intercultural competency models. Through this research, the data that relates to the analysis of music students' needs in order to have intercultural competence will be achieved. The formulation of intercultural competence concept is to be designed for implementation in the education and training of music teachers at the college level. These competencies are trained in order to ensure the students' success as teachers in the classroom. The result shows that teacher education institutions in addition to systematically inculcate their respective local wisdom perspectives, but also recognize cultural diversity in developing cultural ethical frameworks to support teacher competence while teaching in the classroom.