Abstract:
The Arts in the New Zealand Curriculum document (2000), the last of seven curriculum documents to be developed, is to reach full implementation stage in 2003. This paper, an investigative study, looks at the current views of students, in predominantly Year 6 classes – the final year of primary schooling, to ascertain their views on the arts and on music in particular. Such an inquiry seeks to evaluate present student perceptions of music in their schooling and to gather projections regarding how these students might feel about undertaking further music study at intermediate and secondary school.