CHAPTER 5: PROFESSOR AGATHA IJEOMA ONWUEKWES' CONTRIBUTION TO MUSIC EDUCATION: A STUDY OF EVERY STUDENT A MUSICIAN AT MOUNTAIN TOP UNIVERSITY

Abstract

This paper, Prof. Agatha Ijeoma Onwuekwe's Contribution to Music Education in its objectives reviews the musical program at the Mountain Top University titled `Every Student a Musician`, identified methods of teaching theory and practical courses in the program, and suggests adequate and appropriate methodology for the teaching and learning of music courses in the program. This study examines the pedagogical approaches used to impact the adequate musical knowledge of the students. The paper makes use of the Music Learning Theory by Edwin Gordon as well as other pedagogies of music teaching which are still in use to date as its theoretical framework. The method employed a questionnaire and interview. The findings of this paper extract that the variety of pedagogical approaches used in Every Student a Musician (ESM) enables and equips the students to be more functional in their contemporary society. The paper concludes that the variety of pedagogical approaches used to impact knowledge in Every Student a Musician (ESM) simplifies the learning process for students in their various instrumental classes and also equips the students to be more functional in their contemporary society. The study recommends that music teachers and music educators in MTU should continue to research more pedagogical approaches that will help students to cope with the contemporary standards of teaching and learning music in Nigerian Universities.

Keywords: Pedagogical, Approaches, Contemporary Standards, Agatha and Music.