THE EDUCATIONAL AND UPBRINGING FUNCTIONS OF CHILDREN'S MUSICAL THEATRE IN THE INCLUSIVE EDUCATION ENVIRONMENT

Abstract

The initial hypothesis of this article is to determine the educational and upbringing functions of children's musical theatre in the conditions of inclusive education as a triad: supervisor-director, participants-performers, and parent audience. Each of these links in the triad creates an expressive subsystem, and its comprehensive complex is subordinated to the sphere of the educational-artistic context of the emergence and implementation of both literary and musical creative concepts since the multifaceted problem of synthesizing arts has been and remains an actual problem of scientific research. A detailed description of the musical sound palette confirmed the validity of our research regarding the objective realization of musical works in performance as a procedural process in the formation of art images of sounds and words, the diversity of their perception of meaning by performers, which is an extraordinary factor in the formation of stage images in a play involving children and adolescents with special needs. Taking this into account, the director should rely on his entire previous background, worldview, general cultural, aesthetic, and pedagogical experience to develop the creative activity of children through theatrical activities, considering their psychological and physical peculiarities.
 The purpose of the article is to actualize the role of children's musical theatre as a genre-forming extracurricular institution in the conditions of inclusive education, to determine its educational and upbringing functions, to study the peculiarities of stage action in the artistic reproduction of images, to reveal the significance of the musical palette as an expression of the artistic idea for creating a creative atmosphere of the performance based on artistic-pedagogical experience, and to determine the cognitive needs of children and adolescents with special developmental needs through theatrical activity.