Abstract
"Romani people" are a disadvantaged group of people due to their socio-cultural and socio-economic conditions. This situation makes them poor and thus cannot afford education. As Romani people have the tendency to love music, it is considered that music activities may encourage their children who generally have negative attitudes towards school to attend school systematically. Therefore, this work aims to directly and indirectly encourage the Romani children to attend school through music activities. For this purpose, a public primary school was used consisting entirely of Romani children. A first-year class was selected as a pilot group. Multicultural and multidisciplinary music activities based on Orff approach were carried out with the pilot group, for 2 h per week by the music teacher, who was also the participant observer. All activities were video-taped and transcribed for systematic analysis process. The results showed that Orff-based music activities carried out for educational and therapeutic purposes created a positive effect on the musical and non-musical development of Romani children. In addition, by using a variety of activities from different countries, the children’s socio-cultural awareness and understanding of multicultural differences were enhanced as well as their social interaction and communication skills. Key words: Romani people, disadvantaged children, Orff-based music activities, socio-cultural awareness.
Highlights
When a specific group of people are deprived of certain social rights and opportunities in a society, they become disadvantaged with deep-seated and chronic problems
Romani people, who have spread all over the world, are one of the groups exposed to exclusion, discrimination and marginalization by many communities because of negative prejugdements related to their specific characteristics, even though they have the the potential to make communiites rich culturally
The purpose of this study was to contribute to the development of the disadvantaged Romani children within different aspects by using Orff-based music activities involving activities such as imitating and creating rhythmic patterns, making music, dancing in different forms, singing songs and playing instruments
Summary
When a specific group of people are deprived of certain social rights and opportunities in a society, they become disadvantaged with deep-seated and chronic problems. The rate of problems within the Romani population is way above that of Turkey's average in terms of exclusion, poverty, lack of education, unemployment and/or unregistered employment, criminal matters and substance abuse (Taylan and Barış, 2015). These problems occur in cycle, and since the improvements and regulations made on the issues address only one aspect of the problems, the solutions to them become short-term and temporary. The inability to break this vicious cycle should be considered as the main problem (Akkan et al, 2011; İncirlioğlu, 2008; Taylan and Barış, 2015)
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