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Legacy and Adaptation: The Orff Approach in the New Zealand School Setting

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This chapter is based on recent doctoral research by the author, who undertook a critical analysis of the Orff approach in the professional lives and practices of New Zealand teachers in the Aotearoa/New Zealand state school context. In this multiple case study, findings were based on an analysis of questionnaire, observation and interview data. The chapter begins by discussing the Orff legacy, offering a view of its foundational principles and referencing some current critique. It then reports on ways in which teacher participants, drawing on their own understandings of the approach, put it into practice in their classrooms in ways that reflect New Zealand’s bicultural heritage and the increasingly diverse character of New Zealand classrooms.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    The Orff-Institute established in 1963 is the pedagogical centre for study, research and dissemination of Orff Schulwerk.

  2. 2.

    A term coined by Regelski to signify a rigid adherence to a method which fails to take account of local conditions.

  3. 3.

    Excellence, innovation, inquiry and curiosity, diversity, equity, community and participation, ecological sustainability and integrity.

  4. 4.

    Thinking, using language symbols and texts, managing self, relating to others, and participating and contributing.

  5. 5.

    All names are pseudonyms.

  6. 6.

    “Henry” subsequently completed a Masters thesis, which showed that, in stark contrast to previous cohorts, these students all achieved the standard, a number with “Excellence”. See http://www.nzqa.govt.nz/ncea/assessment/view-detailed.do?standardNumber=91092

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    Behavioural guidelines for daily life and interaction in Māori culture.

  8. 8.

    The Māori language.

  9. 9.

    Games and songs using short double sticks.

  10. 10.

    Translated as ‘the fish of Maui’, Te Ika-a-Māui is the Māori name for the North Island of New Zealand.

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    Balls on strings uses in song and dance routines.

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    Literally ‘people of the land’, the Māori term for the indigenous people of Aotearoa New Zealand.

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    Literally a ‘treasure’. Something considered to be of value.

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Locke, L. (2016). Legacy and Adaptation: The Orff Approach in the New Zealand School Setting. In: Ashley, L., Lines, D. (eds) Intersecting Cultures in Music and Dance Education. Landscapes: the Arts, Aesthetics, and Education, vol 19. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28989-2_7

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