PECULIARITIES OF LEARNING MOTIVATION OF TEENAGERS WHILE STUDYING AT MUSIC SCHOOLS

Abstract

Studies at music and others art schools for children and teenagers are not mandatory. Students choose to study in these schools together with their parents unrestrictedly with the aim to develop their special abilities: musical, drawing, dancing and others. Many of these children began their studies with big wishes, excitement and resolution. But it is observed, that especially in the period of adolescence activeness of studying in music schools goes away, the unwillingness is growing, the problems of motivation increase. The goal of this research is to examine and analyse peculiarities of learning motivation while studying at music school during the period of adolescence. Secondary tasks were formulated: to examine and determine the level of learning motivation of teenagers at a music school, to analyse and discuss the determined peculiarities of music learning motivation of teenagers while studying at a music school. The article introduces the results of research in two music schools of Klaipeda about the most important factors (teacher personality, importance of co-operation during studies, positive emotions, influence of anxiety and others) of learning motivation, and peculiarities of teenagers’ cognitive activeness, motivation of achievements of those who study at music schools. KEYWORDS: learning motivation, cognitive activeness, motivation of achievement, teenager, music school, factors of motivation.