Abstract:

The purpose of this research is to examine the effects of creative drama method on students' attitudes towards music lessons. In addition, it was aimed to eliminate the reluctance of the students towards these subjects by developing appropriate educational activities prepared with the creative drama method for the theoretical subjects of music, to facilitate the learning of information about music theory, to make learning fun and permanent, and to enable the student to learn willingly. In this study; For the determined purpose, the creative drama method was applied in the teaching of the theoretical information about the musical perception and information learning field of the 4th grade of Primary School in the 2018-2019 Academic Year Music Lesson Curriculum of the Ministry of National Education. The study was carried out with the experimental method. The study group consists of 80 students, 40 students in the experimental group and 40 students in the control group in Samsun Mimarsinan Primary School. While the subjects related to musical perception and knowledge learning area were handled by the classroom teacher with the traditional (classical) teaching method in the control group, in the experimental group, by using the creative drama method, by the researcher. The post-teaching music lesson attitude scale was applied to both groups with the drama method. With the results obtained from the scale, the effect of creative drama method on students' attitudes towards music lesson was investigated. As a result, it was found that the creative drama method had a positive effect on their attitudes and there was no significant difference according to gender.

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