Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.31192/np.16.2.3
Relationship between sociodemographic variables and attitudes of music teachers toward intercultural education
Amir Begić
orcid.org/0000-0003-2152-9563
; Academy of Arts, University of Osijek, Osijek, Croatia
Jasna Šulentić Begić
orcid.org/0000-0003-4838-0324
; Academy of Arts, University of Osijek, Osijek, Croatia
Abstract
Intercultural music education becomes the need of all modern multicultural societies. It can no longer be based solely on introducing Western European art music. Intercultural reality implies the necessity of knowing musical traditions of different people, as well as the knowledge of a particular culture as a whole. Given its intercultural essence, music is an ideal area in which the intercultural competence of students can be developed and the precondition is an intercultural competent teacher. Within this paper, a research was conducted aiming to establish the link between different sociodemographic variables and attitudes of music teachers towards interculturalism in teaching music, its implementation and the support it receives from the school. An anonymous questionnaire survey examined attitudes of teachers of Music Culture (N=309) and teachers of Musical Arts (N=36) performing music teaching in elementary and high schools in the Republic of Croatia. According to research results, gender is the only sociodemographic variable that is significantly related to attitudes towards intercultural education, as well as the assessment of the possibilities of developing their own intercultural competence and the assessment of support that music teachers receive from schools in the implementation of intercultural education.
Keywords
intercultural music teaching; teacher attitudes; sociodemographic variables; intercultural competence
Hrčak ID:
203371
URI
Publication date:
10.7.2018.
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