Journal of Psychiatry

Department of Music, Art and Culture Studies, University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylän Yliopisto, Finland

Publications

• Review Article   
  Summarizing the New Insight of Grit ? and Ways to Support It Through Positive Music Education
  Author(s): Katri Olander* and Suvi Saarikallo
  
  This review article summarizes new insights on grit. It visualizes the role of fortitude (resilience) in an optimal kind of a learning process, where the student has intrinsic motivation to learn, and the environment supports grit. This study develops forward the theory of positive education that is “for both skills and happiness”. The data were collected by mixed methods from two finish comprehensive schools in the capital city area: Music class students (2017, N=79, ages 9-11 and 2020, N=70, ages 10-14) and their teachers and a regular class as a control group (N=26) to enable comparisons. The research questions were: 1) What elements supported children’s grit to study music? 2) How musical grit, musical flourishing, self-efficacy, general flourishing and feel of flow correlated? 3) How could “musical grit” be modeled? The research process .. View more»
  

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