The Development of Music Criticism Instruction Model for the Visually Impaired Learners

ABSTRACT

The purpose of this study is to develop a music criticism model for the visually impaired learners so that the blind who enjoy music appreciation can have systematic critical ability. Therefore, the researcher conducted a literature review for teaching materials, and conducted a demand analysis of 13 high school students in blind schools in order to understand the needs and perceptions of visually impaired learners about music appreciation and criticism. After analyzing the literature and questionnaire results, I developed a music criticism model and then conducted Focus Group Interview(FGI) with three teachers in blind Schools to diagnose the fit of the model. Through this research process of triangulation, it was found that the students in those blind schools had a high interest in appreciation with an average of 4.47(SD = 0.64) and the interest in criticism was 3.62(SD = 1.22). Particularly, students showed a high response to impressionist criticism types among various criticism types. Finally, the results of the evaluation of the 8th grade criticism model, which is a fusion of 5 types of art criticism by Stolnitz and the contextual Modification of Feldman criticism stage, were evaluated by 3 experts. The result was positive evaluation from all 3, I was asked to review about the plan and stage.