MUSIC LESSONS AND INCLUSION

Mainstreaming is being commonplace especially the last twenty years in our country. According to data of ministry of education, in 1990 the number of mainstreaming students 3934; in 2009-2010 academic year increased to 71.142 students (http://orgm.meb.gov.tr/). Nevertheless, on the subject, the number of scientific studies on music lesson in our country is almost negligible. The purpose of this study is previously done research on the subject by examining a variety of resources and implementation of mainstreaming in the classroom music lessons can be done to put a number of instructional adaptations. This way, music teachers and music teacher candidates may be useful to achieve a number of recommendations.