Music and Science: A Study of Attitudes in Preservice Primary Education Teachers

This paper shows the results of a study of attitudes about the teaching of sound in primary school, with a group of Preservice teachers before and after the implementation of a sequence of activities. The activities were designed with an integrated approach and a multidisciplinary perspective aimed at preparing globalized proposals for teaching and learning consistent with the different disciplinary areas involved in primary education. The attitudes and ideas of future teachers were determined using a questionnaire that consists of 10 open questions and 10 items of on a 5-point Likert scale. In this paper the results of the 10 items are analyzed. These results show that all the groups of students improved their attitude towards the teaching of sound. Moreover, it is noteworthy that the initial differences between them were reduced after the intervention. This leads us to consider that the program has served its purpose, and by conducting interventions with an interdisciplinary approach, preservice teachers can significantly improve their attitude, which is of interest for their future teaching practice.