COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE ORFF SCHULWERK SYSTEM AND THE METHOD RECOMMENDED BY THE MINISTRY OF EDUCATION AT PRIMARY SCHOOL STUDENTS
Keywords:
Music pedagogy, primary education, Orff system,, Ministry of Education manualAbstract
Music pedagogy in Greece in the 21st century is called to be redefined in order to face the challenges of
the new institutional frameworks, social changes, the modern needs of the teacher and the student. German
composer Carl Orff (1895-1982) has been recognized worldwide and is considered one of the most powerful and
dynamic artistic personalities of the 20th century. The characteristics of the Orff method have influenced
educational programs that used traditional teaching methods. The purpose of this specific study is the analysis of the
basic teaching principles of music education as proposed by the Ministry of Education manual as well as Orff
teaching. Μore specifically, the present study investigates the educational textbooks of Music Education in primary
education focusing mainly on its structural characteristics compared to the Orff system. Highlighting and delineating
the identity of the traditional methods of music education and the Orff method, their impact on students emerges as a
difficult and interesting case. This study emerged from research involving three primary school classes.From the
above, the need to define the field emerges. The semi-structured in-depth interview and observation were used as
methodological tools. The choice of these two tools arose so that, on the one hand, there would be freedom for the
respondent to evaluate and understand the researcher by observing the events of the group he is studying. On the one
hand, the research showed that the Orff system, what is of great importance in teaching is the ingenuity of the
teacher to connect the subject he is studying with the goals he is pursuing. On the other hand, based on the teaching
methods, we understand that a teacher who exclusively chooses the music education textbook as a teaching method
is limited based on the planned activities and therefore limits the students' creativity and imagination, which as was
seen from the results of research has had higher success rates when incorporating Orff-based activities.The
conclusions are focused on the usefulness of the two methods based on the response they had from the students. The
research is based on an bibliographic review through articles, books, scientific works of the past and recent years.
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