Examining the views of the instructors and the students of the music education department on the music teaching and learning approaches course

This study which uses mixed research methods and scanning models, aims at improving the quality of the "Music Learning and Teaching Approaches" course by obtaining the views of the students and the instructors of the Music Teaching Department, determining the theoretical and the applied results of the course's process, examining the scale of how competent students feel after they completed the course, revealing their capabilitiy in teaching music, determining the current state and the problems, finding solutions with the help of suggestions. The research population of this study contains the junior and senior students of Music Teaching Departments, and the instructors that teach the Music Learning and Teaching Approaches course at Music Teaching Departments of universities in Türkiye. The research sample of this study contains 121 third year and fourth year students of the Fine Art Education, Music Teaching Department of Necmettin Erbakan University, Ahmet Keleşoğlu Faculty of Education, and the Fine Arts Education, Music Teaching Department of Gazi University, along with the instructors who teach the Music Teacher's Self-Sufficiency course at the universities above mentioned, and 5 other instructors who teach the Music Teacher's Self-Sufficiency course at the Fine Arts Education, Music Teaching Departments of Balıkesir University, Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University, and Bolu Abant İzzet Baysal University. This is a study which uses the mixed method. As a means of obtaining data, a survey form and a structured interview form prepared with experts have been used. The data acquired from the surveys have been analyzed through SPSS, ANOVA test and T Test and the findings have been presented in charts with their distributions of (%) percentage. The data obtained through the interview forms have been analysed and interpreted using the content analysis method. As a result, the study has aimed at determining the theoretical and applied results of the Music Learning and Teaching course, revealing the music teaching capabilities of students of the Music Teaching Departments, determining the current state, bringing the problems to light, and provide suggestions that are thought to be helpful to improve the quality of music teaching. It was concluded that, according to the responds given by the students, during the the Music Teacher's Self-Sufficiency course, Orff-Schulwerk music teaching method, which is a special method of teaching, is used generally, there were some difficulties throughout the distance learning, and when the state of self-sufficiency of students was observed after the Music Teacher's Self-Sufficiency course, it was concluded that the students in the Guitar Teaching Department felt more self-sufficient about the subject. According to the information given by the lecturers of the Music Teacher's Self-Sufficiency course about the applications made throughout the class, it was concluded that online learning is a problematic and inefficient process, and none of the three lecturers found the duration of the course long enough. Considering the results acquired from the study, it was suggested that the course should be given not in the sophomore year, but in the junior year or sometime close to senior years; the number of classes be increased, and, according to the results acquired from the surveys, teaching methods like Kodaly, Dalcroze and Suzuki be included in the teaching methods of the class, in addition to Orff-Schulwerk method which is more widely used during those course, which is believed to enrich and make the course more efficient. Keywords: Music, Music Education, Music Learning and Teaching Approaches