Preliminary communication
https://doi.org/10.15516/cje.v22i0.3911
Contribution of Children’s Self- Organised Musical Activities to the Lifelong Learning of Preschool Teachers
Vendi Lizačić
; Dječji vrtić Tratinčica Svetog Mateja 131, 10 000 Zagreb
Blaženka Bačlija Sušić
orcid.org/0000-0002-0984-765X
; Faculty of Teacher Education University of Zagreb Savska cesta 77, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
The aim of the paper is to point out the importance of children’s active, exploratory
manner of acquiring musical skills and knowledge in authentic processes of
performing, creating, and listening to music as a form of a constructivist paradigm
within the framework of music education (Webster, 2011; Wiggins, 2016). With
adequate support and motivation from teachers during the process of education,
such activities can develop into the child’s self-organised musical activities. During
the conducted action research (AR), children’s musical activities were encouraged,
tracked, and documented. With the appropriate support (“scaffolding”) and
motivation from preschool teachers, they have developed into self-organised creative
musical activities of children. It was concluded that a stimulating spatial and material
environment, active participation of children in the creation and organisation of
musical activities, as well as adequate and unobtrusive encouragement and support
from preschool teachers can affect the increase in the frequency of self-organised
creative and musical activities of children in the process of education. Through
the AR, preschool teachers enrich and develop their competencies necessary for
implementing high-quality creative and musical activities, which are important
for children and their development. The spontaneity and creativity of the child
and the direct experience in musical and creative activities are forms of lifelong
professional development and training of preschool teachers, who, because of the
children, reinvent and excite their own, often repressed, creativity.
Keywords
action research; lifelong learning of preschool teachers; preschool children; self-organised musical and creative activities
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251257
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Publication date:
22.12.2020.
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