Dialogue or compromise – in search of new pedagogical relations in music education

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (1 (10)) ◽  
pp. 85-102
Author(s):  
Joanna Jemielnik
Keyword(s):  
Music Education ◽  
Evaluation Research ◽  
Training Methods ◽  
Music School ◽  
Music Schools ◽  
Performance Training ◽  
Instrument Performance ◽  
Violin And Piano ◽  
Teachers And Parents ◽  
Practice Methods

The article was written based on the evaluation research conducted in one of music schools in eastern Poland, examining the quality of education in violin and piano classes. After the introduction presenting problems related to learning in an art school, the author showed the research purpose and description of the researched group, characteristics of the region and research method. The study group was asked questions concerning the quality and manner of students’ practice, methods of a teacher’s work with primary music school pupils, factors that contributed to and hampered effective instrument performance training, school relations and communication. The collected data, free statements and suggestions of students, teachers and parents, were described, categorized and confronted in the main part of the article. The comparison of opinions and voices from the three perspectives enabled to formulate conclusions on the changes undergoing in a contemporary music school, first of all – in relation to the perception of instrument performance training, methods of teachers’ and pupils’ work as well as the pupil – pedagogue – parent relation.

Disabilities within Sweden’s Art and Music Schools: Discourses of inclusion, policy and practice

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 391-409
Author(s):  
Adriana Di Lorenzo Tillborg
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Music Education ◽  
School Leaders ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Social Constructionist ◽  
Discursive Practices ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Music School ◽  
Music Schools ◽  
Starting Point

The aim of this paper is to investigate the discourses that emerge when Sweden’s Art and Music School leaders talk about the inclusion of pupils with disabilities in relation to policy. A starting point is that both earlier studies and policy documents have revealed inclusion problems within Art and Music Schools. The research question is: how are Art and Music School practice, policy and inclusion of pupils with disabilities connected within and through leaders’ discursive practices? The data are based on three focus group conversations with a total of 16 Art and Music School leaders from northern, central and southern Sweden. Discourse analysis as a social constructionist approach is applied since it provides a means to investigate the connection between social change and discourse. Concepts from both discursive psychology and Foucauldian-inspired discourse analysis are applied in order to investigate connections between rhetorical strategies on a micro level and discourses on an institutional level. The concept of multicentric inclusion is introduced and applied in the analysis. In addition, concepts from educational policy theories are applied in order to analyse how policies are conceptualised and enacted in the context of leaders’ discursive practices. Regarding terminology, the results challenge this researcher when the concept of mixed abilities is introduced by the participants. The analysis exposes three discourses: multicentric inclusion discourse, normality discourse and specialisation discourse. There are tensions between the multicentric inclusion discourse and the normality discourse, as well as between the multicentric inclusion discourse and the specialisation discourse. The analysis leads to the following suggestions in order to achieve justice in music education practices and policies: (a) to enforce a specific national inclusion policy, (b) to challenge the normality discourse and (c) to bring together the multicentric inclusion discourse with the specialisation discourse.

Janusz Miketta – organizer and reformer of music education in Poland

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (1 (10)) ◽  
pp. 11-26
Author(s):  
Jarosław Domagała
Keyword(s):  
Music Education ◽  
Layer Structure ◽  
Stage Structure ◽  
Program Committee ◽  
Music Appreciation ◽  
Music School ◽  
Music Schools ◽  
Music Department ◽  
School Year ◽  
The University

Janusz Miketta (1890-1954) – Polish musicologist, pedagogue and music life organizer. He studied philosophy at the University of Warsaw. He completed his music studies at the Music Institute in Warsaw and in Leipzig, as well as at the F. Chopin Higher Music School in Warsaw. Next, he was the principal of the Music School in Warsaw and from 1919 – the director of the Music Society and the S. Moniuszko Music School in Lublin. In 1924, he started his teaching career at the F. Chopin Higher Music School in Warsaw and later at the M. Karłowicz Music School in Warsaw. In the years 1926–1931, he was a desk officer for music affairs in the Ministry of Religious Denominations and Public Enlightenment and from 1931 – the secretary of the Local Sightseeing Society in Warsaw and Stanisławów. From 1945 to 1948, he was the head of the Music Education Section of the Music Department in the Ministry of Culture and Art and the chairman of the Program Committee of Music Education in the above-mentioned Ministry. Based on Janusz Miketta’s own concept of music education, the Ministry of Culture and Art issued a directive of 7 December 1945 on a special system of music education. Music schools in Poland were divided into vocational ones (lower, middle and higher) and those providing music appreciation classes. This three-stage structure made it possible to adjust teaching program to new needs and select a specialization based on the degree of a pupil’s talent. As a result of reforms introduced in the 1949/1950 school year, schools providing music appreciation classes were liquidated, though the three-layer structure of the school system was maintained. This schooling system, with minor changes, is still in operation in Poland. In the years 1948-1954, Miketta was a professor of the State Higher Music School in Cracow.

scholarly journals Features of teaching piano in pop-jazz style

2020 ◽  
pp. 135-138
Author(s):  
T. V. Sachkova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Music Education ◽  
Approaches To Teaching ◽  
Traditional Methods ◽  
Music School ◽  
Music Schools ◽  
Russian Music ◽  
The Past ◽  
Piano Repertoire ◽  
Jazz Style ◽  
And Training

Russian music school has undergone major changes over the past 20–30 years. The emergence of mass musical styles and genres and their huge popularity, the opening of pop and jazz faculties and training areas, as well as private music schools and studios – all this aff ects the approaches to teaching piano in modern preprofessional music education. The approaches to the development of performing piano skills described in this article include not only traditional methods of studying the academic piano repertoire, but also methods of development in pop and jazz stylistics, using which one can achieve both improved fluency and the development of new sound skills.

On disintegration of the Emil Jaques-Dalcroze method in the Polish music education system. Reflections on the role of Dalcroze’s solfeggio in a 1st-level music school

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (1(8)) ◽  
pp. 85-94
Author(s):  
Anetta Pasternak ◽  
Agata Trzepierczyńska
Keyword(s):  
Music Education ◽  
Primary School ◽  
Education System ◽  
Training Process ◽  
Music Learning ◽  
School Subject ◽  
Music School ◽  
Music Schools ◽  
Polish Music

The method of Emil Jaques-Dalcroze’s eurhythmics combines the three integral, equivalent aspects: eurhythmics, solfeggio and improvisation, which complement each other and thus constitute a coherent, comprehensive and multi-sensory method of music education. The method was successfully transplanted onto the Polish music education system and appeared in curricula for grades 1-3 of the 1st-level music schools in 1976 as an integrated subject named ‘music learning with eurhythmics.’ In 2nd-level music schools, eurhythmics faculties were opened as early as in the 1950s and initiated the training process of future specialists in the Dalcroze method. Finally, as a result of numerous reforms in music education system, the primary school subject was decomposed into ‘eurhythmics’ and ‘aural training.’ The decision on separating the subjects disturbed the concept of an integral training process, included within Dalcroze’s method. This was due to the fact that Dalcroze’s solfeggio took secondary priority to other methods used in aural training, as it is currently possible for music theorists and other specialists to give lessons in this subject. Therefore, two important questions should be asked: 1. Does the reduction of the solfeggio role undermine the entire concept of Dalcroze’s eurhythmics nowadays? 2. Is the use of movement in aural training still necessary?

scholarly journals Activism within music education: working towards inclusion and policy change in the Finnish music school context

2016 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tuulikki Laes ◽  
Patrick Schmidt
Keyword(s):  
Music Education ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
School Context ◽  
Illustrative Case ◽  
Inclusive Practices ◽  
Special Educational Needs ◽  
Music School ◽  
Music Schools ◽  
Teacher Activism ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities

This study examines how interactions between policy, institutions and individuals that reinforce inclusive music education can be framed from an activist standpoint. Resonaari, one among many music schools in Finland, provides an illustrative case of rather uncommonly inclusive practices among students with special educational needs. By exploring this case, contextualised within the Finnish music school system, we identify the challenges and opportunities for activism on micro, meso and macro levels. On the basis of our analysis, we argue that Resonaari's teachers are proactive because, within an inclusive teaching and learning structure, they act in anticipation of future needs and policy changes, engaging in what we call teacher activism. We claim that this type of activism is key for inclusive practices and policy disposition in music education.

Composition learning at a music school on the example of the School Composers’ Club at the K. Szymanowski Primary and Secondary Music Schools in Wrocław

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1(11)) ◽  
pp. 155-166
Author(s):  
Adam Porębski
Keyword(s):  
Formal Education ◽  
School Curriculum ◽  
School Age ◽  
School Subject ◽  
Music School ◽  
Music Schools ◽  
School Year ◽  
Secondary Music ◽  
To Come ◽  
The One

It is no use looking for the educated musicians who were given a chance to come into longer contact with composition as a school subject being part of their formal education. Meanwhile, fascination with an act of creation and willingness to get familiar with music “from the inside” accompany school-age people. It is then that first, bashful compositional attempts are made. Over time, pupils search for new sounds on their instruments, improvise, experiment, get familiar with music literature. Such attempts should not go unnoticed – an observant pedagogue will easily notice creative predispositions in their pupils. In this article, the author shares his pedagogical experiences gained while giving composition classes at the K. Szymanowski Comprehensive Primary and Secondary Music Schools in Wrocław. The idea of promoting the art of composition was fully implemented in the form of the School Composers’ Club, founded in the school year of 2016/2017, the activity of which is based on the author’s original school curriculum, a system of individualized education and various forms of young composers’ presentations. The Club’s activity assumes, on the one hand, preparing pupils to take up compositional studies and, on the other one, fostering their general musical development enriched with creative competences.

scholarly journals Personality traits of a music teacher

2006 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 247-263 ◽  
Author(s):  
Blanka Bogunovic
Keyword(s):  
Music Education ◽  
Personality Traits ◽  
Music Teachers ◽  
Practical Implication ◽  
Personal Characteristics ◽  
Musical Instrument ◽  
Music Teacher ◽  
Public Performance ◽  
Music Schools ◽  
Musical Education

In the context of individual musical instrument teaching, pedagogical abilities of a music teacher and the atmosphere he creates, result from his personality traits and can be of crucial importance for the initial and further progress of his students. The paper seeks to: describe the personality of a music instrument teacher, determine the differences in comparison to a group of non-musicians, and determine the position of personal characteristics in the structure of general and professional teacher profile. The sample comprised 60 individuals, teaching various musical instruments in five primary music schools. The research method is explorative and based on the use of the five-factor personality model (NEO PI-R was administered). The findings show that music teachers display a higher level of: openness, agreeableness and conscientiousness. The degree of congruence with the findings of other research is discussed and certain similarities were found, as well as differences stemming from professional and cultural specificities. Differences are proved to exist in relation to gender, musical instrument, working experience, degree of musical education and active public performance. Compared to non-musical population, it is confirmed that teachers of instrument in musical education represent a distinctive group. There are also differences between teachers who are oriented to pedagogic work only and those who, in addition, actively perform in public. Selection of teachers, according to characteristics which may be connected to students? accomplishment, is a practical implication relevant for the music education.

scholarly journals Pemberdayaan Orang Tua Dan Guru Dalam Membangun Early Warning System Terhadap Kejahatan Seksual Pada Anak Di Tk Sd Model Kabupaten Sleman

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 40
Author(s):  
Kenik Sri Wahyuni ◽  
Inayati Ceria ◽  
Bernadeta Verawati ◽  
Setyo Mahanani
Keyword(s):  
Reproductive Health ◽  
Primary Schools ◽  
Role Model ◽  
Basic Education ◽  
Warning System ◽  
Sexual Education ◽  
Guidance And Counseling ◽  
Training Methods ◽  
Sexual Crimes ◽  
Teachers And Parents

The development of technology which is rapidly increasing has an impact on children. One of the problems that lurk children is the case of child sexual abuse. The number of cases of sexual crimes against children requires an integrated effort both at home by parents and at school by teachers. But in reality, these activities are hampered by the absence of structured BK implementation in primary schools. Although there are already formal rules governing BK in basic education. The absence of special hours for guidance and counseling in elementary school also becomes an obstacle in providing information services for students. In addition, limited knowledge and misperceptions of parents about reproductive health education in children. Activities carried out by training methods. This dedication partner is TK Model SD Sleman Regency Yogyakarta, where the target of the activity of this training are TK Model SD teachers and representatives of student guardians as well as students / students. The purpose of the activity is to empower the target to be able to become a role model in providing sexual education and reproductive health for children / students. the results of this PKM activity are the BK module, the availability of child-friendly and easily accessible reproductive health promotion media, the availability of adequate BK rooms, the increase in the knowledge and skills of teachers and parents in providing sexual education / child reproductive healthKeywords:  Education, reproductive health, children 

scholarly journals Stimulasi Kesantunan Berbahasa Anak Usia Dini di PAUD Hauriyah Halum, Padang

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 127-136
Author(s):  
Imam Muthie ◽  
Yaswinda Yaswinda
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Analysis Technique ◽  
Language Research ◽  
Beam Center ◽  
Descriptive Approach ◽  
Development Of Language ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Teachers And Parents ◽  
Practice Methods ◽  
Stimulation Of

The purpose of this study was to describe how the stimulation of early childhood language politeness in class B1 children at Hauriyah Halum PAUD Padang was carried out. This research is a descriptive approach with qualitative methods. The research was conducted from April 19 to May 19 2019. Researchers used teachers and parents as informants. The way to collect data that the researcher uses is observation, interview, and documentation, while the data analysis technique is done using data triangulation techniques. This study found that the development of children's language politeness in Hauriyah Halum PAUD was carried out through the application of donated duo baleh in accordance with Minangkabau culture and integrated in the learning process, the center. Every activity of developing language politeness is carried out through the process of habituation until it is finally embedded properly for the child. The center which is the focus of politeness-language research is the beam center, natural center, Islamic center, arts center and preparation center. The teacher carries out the development of language politeness by providing simulations through various types of activities in the classroom and outside the classroom. The teacher uses a variety of methods in implementing the development of children's language politeness, namely using, direct practice methods, demonstration methods, and methods of assigning assignments. Then it can be concluded from this study that the implementation of stimulation of speaking politeness in early childhood at PAUD Hauriyah Halum Padang has gone well in accordance with the principles of Minangkabau cultural politeness.

Health Education Literacy and Accessibility for Musicians: A Global Approach. Report from the Worldwide Universities Network Project

2019 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 105-107 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vera A Baadjou ◽  
Suzanne I Wijsman ◽  
Jane Ginsborg ◽  
Christine Guptill ◽  
Rae de Lisle ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Literacy ◽  
Health Education ◽  
Music Education ◽  
Cultural Change ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Music Schools ◽  
Team Meetings ◽  
Funding Sources ◽  
Geographical Regions ◽  
Network Project

OBJECTIVE: To address the need for accessible health education and improved health literacy for musicians throughout their lifespan. METHODS: Formation of a multicultural, international, and interdisciplinary collaborative research team, funded by the Worldwide Universities Network. The goal is to design a multi-strand research program to develop flexible and accessible approaches to health education for musicians, thus improving their health literacy. RESULTS: Two team meetings took place in 2018. The first was held 11 to 15 April 2018 in Perth, Australia, and involved a review of existing literature and interventions on health education in music schools, intensive development of research topics, aims, and methodologies, and identification of potential funding sources to support future large-scale research programs. This resulted in the draft design of three research projects, finalized during a second meeting in Maastricht, the Netherlands, 27 to 31 August 2018. DISCUSSION: These intensive meetings identified the need for both cultural change in music education settings as well as improved health literacy in musicians across global geographical regions. A global project to address health literacy and health education accessibility for musicians has commenced.

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