Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.21464/mo45.124.3172
Music education in Croatian general secondary education
Ivana Senjan
orcid.org/0000-0003-1688-7825
; Dr. Ivan Kranjčev Gymnasium, Đurđevac, Croatia
Abstract
Pedagogical reforms both in Croatia and abroad during the last twenty years have shown the need to harmonise the educational system with contemporary educational needs and challenges by bringing the student into the center of the teaching process. Despite the suggestions of many music teachers regarding enhancing and modifying existing teaching approaches, music classes in Croatia have kept the same diachronic form since the 1954/1955 school year, based on the chronological study of music history. This brings the traditionally designed curriculum and contemporary educational efforts into conflict. This paper emphasises the importance of music classes to students’ aesthetic upbringing and musical culture development, summarises the general properties of music as a school subject, and provides an overview of its retrospective, its current situation, and current issues regarding its teaching. With the aim of more effective musical education for secondary school students, a more contemporary teaching approach is advised, founded on a model that takes advantage of both scientific research and the practical experience of music teachers. This manner of a model would be vital to achieving important changes in the development of music teaching as a legitimate branch of science.
Keywords
aesthetic upbringing; music culture; music classes; music taste; music class models
Hrčak ID:
192816
URI
Publication date:
23.10.2017.
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