Özet:

The present study aimed to determine the opinions of music teachers about the distance music education practices carried out through the Education Information Network (Eğitim Bilişim Ağı: EBA in Turkish) during the Covid-19 pandemic and to present the general views of the music education provided during this process through these opinions. Accordingly, the study group of the research comprised 15 music teachers working within the Ministry of National Education (Milli Eğitim Bakanlığı: MEB in Turkish) and conducting online lessons. The study was conducted using a case study design from qualitative research approaches. The data were collected via the interview technique in the second half of the 2019-2020 academic year when schools adopted distance education due to the Covid 19 pandemic. The content analysis technique was adopted during the analysis of the data. As a result, it was determined that the majority of music teachers were not experienced in distance education and went through an adaptation process to this new situation, face-to-face education was a more suitable system for music education, however, they thought that the application of distance education was necessary during the pandemic process. It was seen that the music teachers carried out the lessons in an activity-based manner and mostly used video and audio files as teaching materials. It was seen that teachers’ views mostly focused on the facts that the problems regarding the Internet and device connection problems and students not using their cameras negatively affected the class management. Also, it was found that the lockdown process provided teachers with more time to improve themselves professionally, and the participation of students in the lessons was generally low.

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