Student-Centered Approach in Piano Study for Teenagers: Is it possible?

Most of music education students who learn piano in Indonesia play the instrument based on teachers' instructions. Teacher-centered approach is commonly found in the learning process in which materials and strategies are determined by the teachers. Fortunately, such learning model is not found in Adorakids Music as one of music learning centers in Bandung. This is due to learning approach by encouraging students' participation in their learning process. Therefore, this study aims to investigate a student-centered approach employed in Adora Kids Music. A descriptive qualitative was chosen as a research design. Meanwhile, data were collected through several instruments namely: interview, observation, and document analysis. Some stages to analyze the data were done through describing, reducing, triangulation, until presenting the data. The results of this study refer that during the learning process, the teacher used student-centered approach through implementing some strategies: discovery learning, exploration, collaboration, and self-evaluation. To develop learning material, the teacher consider students' need and interests so that all components in learning process including learning, method, media and model were also made appropriately with the students' need.