Abstract
The reform of teachers’ education commenced by the Ministry of Education and Science provides an opportunity to obtain a qualification as a teacher within one year, encompassing studies based in a working environment for those who already have higher education. The goal of the research is to identify the challenges, risks and perspectives of the realization of the module “Music methodology” of the study course “Integrated methods in Teaching Culture Understanding and Self-expression in Art” within the one-year study programme “Skolotājs”. The research compared study course plans in music teaching and choir work methodology at two Latvian higher education institutions, as well as at two foreign higher education institution, where a qualification as a music teacher at a comprehensive school can be attained. The research was undertaken based on an analysis of theoretical sources, providing an understanding about a synthesis of varying contemporary methodological approaches. It encompasses the acquisition of a knowledge of cultural history and the history of music, the style and future directions of popular music, desirably not just theoretically but practically as well, in the education of the students. The actualization of such study courses as music teaching methodology, the research process in music teaching, music history and stylistics, the psychology of music, conducting, choir/vocal ensemble work, methodology and music project management are important for the high quality and integrated acquisition of music teaching methodology.
Highlights
The second – level higher professional education study programme Skolotājs for attaining a teaching qualification within a year is being developed in collaboration with Daugavpils University and Liepāja University at the University of Latvia
The newly established study programme „The Teaching Power” is currently the only such study programme in the Baltics, it was of utmost importance to choose for the present research stage the higher education institutions, in which a B.A. programme in music teaching/pedagogy is being implemented at present: in Latvia such institutions are the Jāzeps Vītols Latvian Academy of Music and the Daugavpils University, in Lithuania – the Vytautas Magnus University, along with which the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna represents the European values in culture education
Contemporary approaches to the study process will be used in the programme: learning in groups, teaching and learning leadership, situational and personalized learning etc.the following need to be clarified for such a programme to validly function, 1) factors, which influence the perception of music currently(in the context of global cultural processes), the cultural traditions of music in Latvia,as well as the main contradictions and problems in teaching music currently; 2) a comparison needs to be made of the existing experience at universities in creating the curriculum for teachers – together information about the required preconditions for the programme’s implementation and 3) the main dimensions of the curriculumneed to be defined
Summary
The newly established study programme „The Teaching Power” is currently the only such study programme in the Baltics, it was of utmost importance to choose for the present research stage the higher education institutions, in which a B.A. programme in music teaching/pedagogy is being implemented at present: in Latvia such institutions are the Jāzeps Vītols Latvian Academy of Music and the Daugavpils University, in Lithuania – the Vytautas Magnus University, along with which the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna represents the European values in culture education. The research compared study course plans in music teaching and choir work methodology at two Latvian higher education institutions, as well as at two foreign higher education institution, where a qualification as a music teacher at a comprehensive school can be attained. The research was undertaken based on an analysis of theoretical sources, providing an understanding about a synthesis of varying contemporary methodological approaches
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