The effects of creative drama and Orff Schulwerk applications on 4. grade students' attitudes towards music lesson

This research aims at revealing the effects of creative drama and Orff Schulwerk applications on the attitude of 4th class primary school students towards the music lesson.Research is performed with quasi expremental model of control grouped pre-test final test.The 4th class students of Tekirova Halit Narin Primary School of the district of Kemer of the province of Antalya constitute the participants of the research in the academic year of 2014 – 2015. Test and control groups were formed by drawing lots from among the students of the classes of 4-A, 4-B and 4-C. Accordingly, class of 4-C (n=15) was identified as test 1 group where musical education was performed with creative drama method, class of 4-B (n=16) as test 2 group where musical education was performed with Orff Schulwerk approach, whereas class of 4 A (n=16) as control group. The lectures in the control group were performed with the activities selected from the 4th class musical teacher's guide book. Lecture plans of the test groups were prepared by the researcher and expert opinion was asked. Music lessons of each of the three groups were taught by the researcher. Implementations were performed as 1 lecture hour per week for 8 weeks. Attitude Scale Regarding Music Lesson (Özmenteş, 2005) was applied to each of the three groups before and after the implementations. Acquired data was analyzed by Kruskal Wallis H Test, One Way Anova, Paired Sample T test andWilcoxon Signed Ranks Test. As a result of the analysis in order to understand whether there exists a difference between the final test grades of the test groups and control group, it was observed that the attitudes of the students towards the music lesson differentiates according to the method. In the analysis performed regarding where the mentioned difference is, significant differences were found as: 1) Between the test 1 group taking the musical education by creative drama method and the control group, in favor of test 1 group; 2) Between the test 2 group taking the musical education by Orff Schulwerk approach and the control group, in favor of test 2 group. No significant difference was found in between the final test grades of the test 1 group taking the musical education with the creative drama method and test 2 group taking the musical education with the Orff Schulwerk approach. Keywords: Creative drama, Orff Schulwerk, attitude regarding music lesson