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- Title
Music School Teachers' Professional Attitudes as a Projection of the Perspective Education: Aspects of Music Content and Spread of Innovation.
- Authors
Gabnytė, Giedrė
- Abstract
It is irrefutable that success of music education can be determined by education of teachers, attitude towards innovations in education, style of work, variety of education forms, etc. The research presented in this article tries to summarise the attitudes of teachers working at Lithuanian music schools in respect of music content and spread of innovation. Professional attitudes not only picturesquely illustrate the situation of today's music education, but also project a long-term view of music education. Relevance and problem of the research. Changing political, social, and educational conditions determine new educational objectives based on progressive ideas aimed at the formation of pupils' fundamental systems of values, development of creative skills, transfer of the fundamentals of national and ethnic, civic and political culture. Against the backdrop of the highlighted strategic educational aims in Lithuania, musical training plays a special role. Today scholars equate musical training with multicultural cognizance based on the development of intellectual abilities of a pupil, on the awakening of his/her sensuous intelligence, formation of the relation to oneself and to the surrounding world (Philpott 2012; Westerlund 2012; Samama 2013; etc.). With a considerable change in the country's political and sociocultural conditions, the questions arise naturally: to what extent does 'the product' of the 1940s - today's music school and the education content introduced by them - correspond to the new education and training (self-training) objective determined by the paradigm shift? Is there the capability to adjust to new challenges posed to the society and to the aforementioned personal and educational aims of a learner and to ensure the supply of high-quality education? It should not be discounted that the changes in musical training inspired by the educational paradigm shift are in part determined by the motivation of teachers, who currently work in music schools, their qualification, and the approach to teachers' education innovations. The need for the analysis of professional attitudes of the aforementioned participants of education process - the teachers - emerges. The attitudes are determined by a large number of specific cognitive, affective behavioural components that manifest themselves in music education as the experience of teachers, their professional competence, attitude to a pupil, working style, the diversity of teaching methods, etc. that could affect education process in a different way and inspire changes in musical training. The subject of the teachers' attitudes is not new. It has been touched upon quite broadly in the educational works of Lithuanian and foreign authors (Ruškus 2000; Gribaciauskas, Merkys 2003; Strakšienē 2009; Thomas, Alaphilippe 1996; Trivedi 2002; Schon 2005; Fredrickson 2007; Robinson 2010; Burkett 2011; Khan, Basu 2013; etc.). Researches of teachers' attitudes prove that the attitudes not only implicate and illuminate the fragments of ongoing educational reality, but also distinctively shape the content of educational changes. The novelty of the subject chosen by the author of this research is based on previously not researched diagnostics of the professional attitudes of music instrument teachers working in a specific field of musical training. The research object is professional attitudes of music school teachers. The research goal is to analyse the expression of the professional attitudes of music school teachers. The objectives of the research: 1)to define hypothetically the indicators of professional attitudes of music school teachers and to prepare the instrument that will measure these attitudes; 2)to reveal the professional attitudes of music school teachers and the socio-demographic factors that influence them on the basis of the results of the statistical analysis; 3)to draw up the typology of music teachers who have educational practice according to the professional attitudes characteristic to teachers, to reveal the valency of these attitudes.
- Subjects
LITHUANIA; MUSIC teachers' attitudes; MUSIC education; LITHUANIAN music; MUSIC conservatories; EDUCATIONAL objectives; EDUCATION
- Publication
Music Science Today: The Permanent & the Changeable / Mūzikas Zinātne Šodien: Pastāvīgais un Mainīgais, 2016, Vol 8, p296
- ISSN
2501-0344
- Publication type
Article