Review article
https://doi.org/10.21464/mo46.124.5784
Intercultural contents as a foundation of teaching music in European general education schools
Amir Begić
orcid.org/0000-0003-2152-9563
; Academy of Arts, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University in Osijek, Croatia
Jasna Šulentić Begić
orcid.org/0000-0003-4838-0324
; Academy of Arts, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University in Osijek, Croatia
Abstract
The development of intercultural competencies of an individual has become a necessity, and a contemporary school has to keep up with time and events we are surrounded with. The education of a young person capable of working effectively and living in a modern society also implies the development of the intercultural competence of each student. Music education is certainly an area in which the intercultural competence of students can be developed. The precondition is an intercultural conceptual curriculum, intercultural contents in textbooks, as well as examples of different musical traditions from all continents for listening to music. Therefore, the aim of this paper was to determine whether national, subject, and school curricula, as well as the content of textbooks and related CDs are based on interculturalism in twelve European countries (Croatia, Hungary, Slovenia, Austria, Germany, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Italy, Bosnia and Herzegovina, France, England and Finland). The results of the research have shown that the teaching of music, especially in the grammar school, is still insufficiently focused on introducing music of different cultures, which is a major obstacle to the intercultural education of students that we must strive for.
Keywords
intercultural education; music education; elementary school; grammar school; curriculum
Hrčak ID:
199988
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Publication date:
17.4.2018.
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