scholarly journals The Curricular Reform of Art Education in Primary School in Slovenia in Terms of Certain Components of the European Competence of Cultural Awareness and Expression

2012 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 71-90
Author(s):  
Rajka Bračun Sova ◽  
Metoda Kemperl
Keyword(s):  
Music Education ◽  
Primary School ◽  
Art Education ◽  
Cultural Awareness ◽  
White Paper ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Curricular Reform ◽  
Art Making ◽  
Language Curriculum ◽  
Starting Point

One of the important positions of the last curricular reform in Slovenia, which included systemic issues of education (White Paper on Education, 2011) and curricula for compulsory subjects in primary school, is the fact that Slovenia has been integrated into Europe, and thus education should also include the development of core European competences. One such competence is cultural awareness and expression, which until now has been an issue more in the context of cultural policies than school policies in Slovenia. The purpose of the present article is to critically analyse the curricular reform of art education (i.e., visual art education), through which, in terms of certain components of the competence of cultural awareness and expression, it is foreseen that the student will gain a knowledge of art, develop an ability to experience works of art and develop a creative attitude towards art and heritage.Because the starting point and goal of curricular change is the curriculum, our analysis is derived from curriculum theories, and not from the art theories and pedagogical theories that have predominantly framed previous attempts at curriculum analysis. Critical consideration of the curricular reform of art education in primary school in terms of certain components of the competence of cultural awareness and expression was undertaken by comparing curricula in the field of aesthetic education. We compared art education with music education and literature within the Slovenian language curriculum. Qualitative analysis showed that, despite the reform, the curriculum for arts education does not realise selected components of the competence of cultural awareness and expression, largely due to the curriculum’s conceptual structure. Art education is centred principally on art-making activities, with an obviousneglect of appreciation. The integration of arts subjects at school, as proposed by the White Paper, is therefore not possible, due to the existing model of art education. From a practical point of view, the analysis also raised the question of the knowledge and competences of teachers.

scholarly journals The Politics of Intercultural Collaboration in Higher Music Education: Challenges Seen from a Leadership Point of View

2021 ◽  
pp. 203-214
Author(s):  
Sidsel Karlsen
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Music Education ◽  
National Policy ◽  
Diversity Management ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
New Managerialism ◽  
Intercultural Collaboration ◽  
Leadership In Higher Education ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Internationalization In Higher Education

AbstractInternationally, various mandates and policy directives require higher music education institutions to engage in intercultural collaboration. These include fulfilling national policy demands for internationalization in higher education, providing students with experience of working internationally to increase their employability, and conducting proper diversity management so as to facilitate diversity-conscious and responsible interaction with employees, students, and the broader educational community. In this chapter, the topic of intercultural collaboration in higher music education is approached from a different starting point, asking what, from a leadership point of view, creates obstacles to such collaboration and what makes it challenging or difficult either at the levels of individual participants, administrators, or the institution. Twelve leadership representatives from three different institutions of higher music education were interviewed about their experiences with intercultural collaboration and the benefits and challenges of engaging in such interactions. From the interviewees’ experiences, their work of attempting to govern or manage situations of complex intercultural interaction while simultaneously negotiating between the different interests expressed within the frames of their respective institutions featured prominently in the empirical material. In this chapter, these negotiations and deliberations are theorized and discussed attending to perspectives borrowed from literature on intercultural competences, leadership in higher education, and new managerialism.

Different Ways of Conceptualizing Mathematical Content for Prospective Primary School Teachers

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-68
Author(s):  
Xhevdet Thaqi ◽  
Ana Isabel Rodríguez Valladares ◽  
Ekrem Aljimi
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Training ◽  
Primary School ◽  
Prospective Teachers ◽  
Mathematical Knowledge ◽  
School Teacher ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Primary School Teacher ◽  
Mathematical Content ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Study Programs

Changes in today society and in the development of technology demand a greater interest in mathematical knowledge in education and didactic research on professional work. Recent research seems to confirm that mathematics is still under-worked. This is the starting point from which the interest in studying the mathematical knowledge is necessary for the professional development of perspective primary school mathematics teachers arises. The study of mathematics curricula for the training of prospective teachers in different universities and their historical evolution will provide those with necessary criteria to organize, formulate, and develop the mathematical content of this didactic point of view and to establish the diagnosis of the systematic and the subsequent intervention in the teacher training institutions. According to the recommendations of the researches and other scientific events, the basic concepts and properties of mathematics should be included in the curricula of study programs for primary school teacher training.

scholarly journals Spotify as a case of musical Bildung

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 89-113
Author(s):  
Cecilia Ferm Almqvist
Keyword(s):  
Music Education ◽  
Streaming Media ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Other ◽  
Media Technologies ◽  
Stimulated Recall ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Actual Use ◽  
Streaming Service ◽  
And Function

This article explores the meaning and function of streaming media as a potential facilitator of musical Bildung. Taking the affordances of streaming media technologies as a starting point, the article thus focuses on the formative and cultivating dimensions a music streaming service such as Spotify might offer. The specific aim of this article is to describe and analyse how musical Bildung may evolve within a Spotify context from a user perspective. To address the aim from the point of view of music education, Spotify users’ activities and experiences of streaming media interactions were accessed, inspired by internet-related ethnography. Stimulated recall interviews, focusing on the participants’ experiences as well as their actual use of Spotify’s streaming service, were conducted, recorded, and transcribed. The generated material was subjected to co-operative hermeneutic content analysis. The results illuminate how Bildung evolves in users’ encounters with the service and with art mediated via Spotify. Relevant topics occurring in the human-art-technology relationship of Bildung from a Heideggerian perspective were Being-possible, the ability-to-be, and Spotify as the Other. In sum, it can be stated that Bildung evolves when Spotify exceeds the thingness of the Other, becoming a work of art in itself, throwing the user into Being.

scholarly journals Umjetnički poticaji kroz proces odgoja i obrazovanja

2012 ◽  
Vol 7 (1.) ◽  
Author(s):  
Branimir Mendeš ◽  
Hicela Ivon ◽  
Dunja Pivac
Keyword(s):  
Art Education ◽  
Visual Art ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Primary School Children ◽  
Creative Play ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Points Of View ◽  
Art Activities ◽  
Teaching Conceptions ◽  
Different Levels

Taking into consideration various points of view the paper discusses aesthetic stimuli of particular arts during the process of education. Special attention has been given to the importance of the art education at different levels of the educational system. The introductory part elaborates various teaching conceptions of the art education within the framework of the historical development. In the second part of the paper children´s creative play is considered as an aesthetic art category. The third part of the paper discusses the possibilities for fostering primary school children´s aesthetic sensitivity through diversified creative visual-art activities. The importance of these aesthetic activities is paid special attention from the point of view of the intrasubjective, i.e. emotional. The authors emphasize this as a starting point and a process in an individual´s education in the area of art speech and art creativity.

scholarly journals The Effect of Chorus Education in Disadvantageous Groups on the Process of General Education—Cultural Awareness and Socializing: The Sample of Gypsy Children

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 125 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gulnihal Gul ◽  
Bilgehan Eren
Keyword(s):  
Academic Achievement ◽  
Music Education ◽  
General Education ◽  
Primary School ◽  
Social Exclusion ◽  
Cultural Awareness ◽  
Socialization Process ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Academic Year ◽  
Education Process

Many reasons such as social exclusion, economic insufficiency, and prejudice make it difficult for Gypsy children to reach qualified education and cause their expectations for the future to be minimized. Yet, it is considered that the property of “inclination to music”, linked especially with Gypsies, will positively affect the motivations of Gypsy children for the school and their academic achievement and thus music education and chorus education performed in this context will make considerable contributions to the education process of the children.In this context, with a pilot classroom selected from the 4th grades in a primary school all of whose students consist of Gypsy children, chorus education studies have been carried out for an academic year. In accordance with the results obtained from the research, it has been reached the end of the fact that chorus education studies have made positive contributions to the general education, cultural awareness and socialization process of Gypsy children included in the disadvantageous groups and presenting Gypsy children with the opportunities that they can turn the music permanently present in their daily lives into an advantage in educational terms is quite important.

scholarly journals ARTISTIC EDUCATION OF STUDENTS IN THE PROJECTION OF A PERSONALLY ORIENTED APPROACH

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (195) ◽  
pp. 14-18
Author(s):  
Sergiy Gorbenko ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Music Education ◽  
Art Education ◽  
Diagnostic Techniques ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
School Age Children ◽  
Object Of Study ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Education Of Students ◽  
Oriented Approach

The article is devoted to the problem of personality-oriented education of students of general secondary education. A special place in this process belongs to the teacher. Emphasis is placed on the need to develop and implement in school practice such approaches that would be focused on the formation of students' ability to build constructive relationships with participants in the educational process in terms of mutual understanding, creative cooperation. The teacher must have a dialogical style of communication with students, cultivating in them equal subjective relationships. The content of the basic principles of personality-oriented music education and upbringing of students is covered: the subjectivity of the relationship between teacher and students (the teacher must have a dialogue style of communication with students, educating them in equal subject relations); innovative teacher training (teacher is constantly improving and uses modern innovative forms, methods and techniques of working with students); own way of the pupil's relation to a musical work, the world around, other people, to itself. (acquaintance of students with technological systems, style of activity of leading teachers of musical art, accumulation of modern methodical receptions, developments, diagnostic techniques, manuals). The pedagogical conditions of this process are offered: the presence of motivation, an important source of which is the musical needs and interests of children; experience of dialogical interaction with art, which teaches the child to understand the artistic language of the work, to realize its essence; teacher's ability to be creative; creation of personality-oriented situations in the lesson; the presence of features of the teacher's thinking (originality, predictability, accuracy, flexibility); creating a helping relationship by the teacher. Application of the personality-oriented approach to the general art education of school-age children, from our point of view, is provided by the following initial positions: the student's personality is a unique phenomenon, so this personality is worthy of respect, even if it is not exemplary; musical development of the child is the goal of the art and educational system of the school; in the process of art education and upbringing the maximum possible atmosphere of success of pupils and a high level of support of their achievements is created; the student is an active and free subject of the educational process, not passively and obediently assimilating the object of study and education; the child is taught not because to think, but because to think and think about art, music in particular; artistic and educational achievements of the student are evaluated not in comparison with other children, but in the dynamics of only his personal positive changes; the teacher perceives the purpose of artistic development of the individual as socially and professionally significant; methodological views of the teacher is a personality-oriented paradigm, the logic of which requires to build the process of general art education so that in the center of it was the personality of the student.

LES AXES DE LA CRÉATION ET LA NAISSANCE DE LʹIMAGINAIRE COMME LANGAGE MYTHIQUE

Trictrac ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liliana Danciu ◽  
Petru Adrian Danciu
Keyword(s):  
Sacred Space ◽  
Physical World ◽  
Spoken Word ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Philosophical Approach ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Written Form ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Religious Systems ◽  
Rich Spectrum

The axes of the creation and birth of the imaginary as a mythical language. Our research follows the relationships of the concepts that are taking into account creation on the double axis of verticality and horizontality. We highlight those symbolic elements which would later constitute the mythical language about the sacred space-temporality. Inside this space-temporality a rich spectrum of mythical images develops; images capable of explaining the relationships of the creation plans. Without a religious perception of the temporality, the conceptualization of the axis would remain a philosophical approach. Through our point of view, the two are born simultaneously. Thanks to them, creation can be imagined. The first “frozen” formula of the mystical human spirit can be thought, brought to a palpable reality, expressed in an oral and then a written form. Studied together, temporality (sacred or not) and space are permanently imagined together. For example, a loss of mundane temporality in the secret ecstasy that offers to the soul an ascending direction does not mean getting out of universal temporality, but of its mundane section. In the sacred space the soul relates to time. Even the gods are submitted by the sacred, Aeon sometimes being synonymous to destiny. The universal creator seems to evade every touch, but not consistently, only when he avoids the descent into its created worlds. In sacredness, time and space seem or become confused, both expressing the same reality, by the immediate swing from thinking to deed. The mythical imagery conceives the displacement in the primary space-temporality by the spoken word. So, for something to appear and live, the spoken word is required. Even the divine dream appears as a pre-word of a creator’s thought. The thought follows the spoken word, the spoken word follows the gestures which finally indicate the meanings of the creative act, controlling the rhythm of the creation days. These three will later be adapted through imitation in rite. We are now situated at the limit of the physical world, a real challenge for the mythical imagery. The general feature of the mythical expression on the creation of the material world is the state of the divinity’s exhaustion, most often conceptualized by sacrifice or divine fatigue. The world geography identifies with the anatomy of a self-gutted god. Practically, material creation is most likely the complete revelation of God’s body autopsy. As each body decomposes, everything in it is an illusion. An axial approach of the phenomenon exists in all religious systems. The created element’s origin is exterior, with or without a pre-existing matter, by a god’s sacrifice or only because it has to be that way. This is the starting point of the discussion on the symbolism of axiality as a reason for the constitution of the language of creation, capable of retelling the imaginary construction of myth in an oral and then written form.

L’absence chez Michel Butor. L’Emploi du temps et Degrés

2012 ◽  
pp. 66-80
Author(s):  
Michał Mrozowicki
Keyword(s):  
Human Memory ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Narrative Discourse ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Michel Butor ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
One Year ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Narrative Mode ◽  
The City

Michel Butor, born in 1926, one of the leaders of the French New Novel movement, has written only four novels between 1954 and 1960. The most famous of them is La Modification (Second thoughts), published in 1957. The author of the paper analyzes two other Butor’s novels: L’Emploi du temps (Passing time) – 1956, and Degrés (Degrees) – 1960. The theme of absence is crucial in both of them. In the former, the novel, presented as the diary of Jacques Revel, a young Frenchman spending a year in Bleston (a fictitious English city vaguely similar to Manchester), describes the narrator’s struggle to survive in a double – spatial and temporal – labyrinth. The first of them, formed by Bleston’s streets, squares and parks, is symbolized by the City plan. During his one year sojourn in the city, using its plan, Revel learns patiently how to move in its different districts, and in its strange labyrinth – strange because devoid any centre – that at the end stops annoying him. The other, the temporal one, symbolized by the diary itself, the labyrinth of the human memory, discovered by the narrator rather lately, somewhere in the middle of the year passed in Bleston, becomes, by contrast, more and more dense and complex, which is reflected by an increasinly complex narration used to describe the past. However, at the moment Revel is leaving the city, he is still unable to recall and to describe the events of the 29th of February 1952. This gap, this absence, symbolizes his defeat as the narrator, and, in the same time, the human memory’s limits. In Degrees temporal and spatial structures are also very important. This time round, however, the problems of the narration itself, become predominant. Considered from this point of view, the novel announces Gerard Genette’s work Narrative Discourse and his theoretical discussion of two narratological categories: narrative voice and narrative mode. Having transgressed his narrative competences, Pierre Vernier, the narrator of the first and the second parts of the novel, who, taking as a starting point, a complete account of one hour at school, tries to describe the whole world and various aspects of the human civilization for the benefit of his nephew, Pierre Eller, must fail and disappear, as the narrator, from the third part, which is narrated by another narrator, less audacious and more credible.

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