Preliminary communication
https://doi.org/10.21464/mo45.124.7394
Fostering the creative abilities of music school students
Blaženka Bačlija Sušić
orcid.org/0000-0002-0984-765X
; Faculty of Teacher Education, University of Zagreb, Croatia
Radojka Sućeska Ligutić
; Music School Elly Bašić, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
This paper emphasises the importance of encouraging creativity in music education. Since the proposal of the National Curriculum for Art Education has not yet been implemented in educational practice, the focus of this paper is on existing curriculae for elementary music schools and elementary dance schools (2006), especially on the curriculae for the Functional Music Pedagogy primary school. Based on a triangulation of different methods, through a questionnaire survey and semi-structured interviews, the teaching practice of music schools working under the Functional Music Pedagogy programme was investigated in its application of creative forms and working methods that encourage the creativity and innovation of students. The results obtained indicate that the teachers examined have a highly developed awareness of the importance of creativity, and that they encourage students to independently solve certain problems in the classroom. They use different ways to stimulate creativity, where improvisation is used more often as a basic methodical tool in teaching solfège than in individual instrumental instruction.
Keywords
Functional Music Pedagogy; music education; creative forms and methods of work,; creativity; teachers
Hrčak ID:
192817
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Publication date:
23.10.2017.
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