Towards re-introduction of Music as a subject in public secondary schools in Ibadan Metropolis: Music Evaluation in focus

Abstract

This study explores the evaluation of students’ attitudes towards music education in Secondary schools in the Ibadan Metropolis. This study looks into affective domains of the learning to find out if secondary school students still have affection, value and have positive attitude towards music education. The population of the study is the public secondary school students in Ibadan Metropolis. The simple random technique was used to select the public secondary schools and public secondary school students as the respondents and attitude Likert scale items were used to evaluate the students’ attitudes towards music education in Public secondary schools in Ibadan Metropolis. The study found that Music as a subject isn’t no more on the table time of the majority of the public secondary schools in Ibadan Metropolis 75% (1875). The study also found out that Music as a subject has been merged into Cultural and Creative Art which is commonly taught by Cultural and creative Art teachers who have no professional certifications and training in Music. The study found that Public secondary school students have neither positive nor negative attitudes towards Music education since 80% (2000) Majority of them haven’t been teaching Music as a subject in their respective schools. It is therefore recommended that Music should be taught as a separate subject both in Junior and senior secondary schools. Ministry of Education and the Post Primary Teaching Service Commission should support the reintroduction of Music as a separate subject to help secondary school students learn more about their traditional folk songs and the moral training embedded in them.