TEACHER'S MUSIC ACTIVITIES IN THE CLASSROOM AS A PREREQUISITE FOR IMPROVEMENT OF MUSIC EDUCATION

The relevance of the research is realized through the search for the music teacher’s activities that help to improve the process of music education while fostering the learner’s aesthetic and meaningful relationship to music. The object of the research is a music teacher’s activity of teaching music in general education school. The aim of the research is to analyse the improvement opportunities of a music teacher’s activity during music lessons in seventh-eighth grades in general education schools. The methods of the research include the analysis of scientific literature and documents of education; semi-structured interviews with music teachers; a written survey; quantitative and qualitative data analysis. According to the collected data, a variety of musical activities helps to develop learners’ inborn musical abilities, provide a favourable learning environment with an opportunity to develop the learners’ musicianship and presuppose their transferable skills. In this context, teachers’ active and creative musical involvement helps the learner to experience more positive emotions. Such a personal involvement and cooperation serve as a major condition for the improvement of the teachers’ musical activity. An inappropriate choice of the activities can lead to dissatisfaction and be the main reason for failure. The teachers’ participation in musical activities could encompass a number of music modes, which could create a more attractive and productive activity in the lesson:  a teacher – a performer – a listener – a facilitator – a leader

CHILDREN’S SINGING: REFLECTIONS ON A VOCAL TEACHING IN LITHUANIA AND TAIWAN

The research is concerned with the aim of comparing children’s singing and vocal teaching development in Lithuania and Taiwan. Singing is the most noticeable feature of musical culture of the nation. Seeking the continuity of traditions of teaching singing, the nurturance of children’s singing in various countries is considered to be one of the key objectives of music education. Therefore, the research teams from Lithuania and Taiwan have decided that the importance of the development of a child’s voice requires more attention. In total 150 6-8 yearold children took part in the research (testing): 75 children in each age group were tested in Lithuania and Taiwan. The methodology for “Children’s Singing Voice Measure” (CSVM) was used in the research. The conducted research highlighted the tendencies of expression of 6-8 year-old children’s singing voice skills in musical education classes in Lithuania and Taiwan. It was revealed that the ability of 6-8 year-old children to control the singing voice range is developed insufficiently. The article was written implementing the international tripartite research project “Coordination between Musical Hearing and Vocal Apparatus of 6-8 Year-Old Children during the Process of Singing: Comparative Study in Latvia, Lithuania and Taiwan” (TAP-LLT-14-016)

PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF DEVELOPMENT OF COORDINATION BETWEEN 6-8 YEARS OLD CHILDREN’S MUSICAL HEARING AND VOCAL APPARATUS

In the present article, the psychological aspects of the development and process of coordination between 6-8 years old children’s musical hearing and vocal apparatus are considered, among which an important role is played by such cognitive processes as music perception, representation of musical hearing, musical thinking, musical memory and self-control. This research aims at studying the psychological aspects of the process of coordination of musical hearing and vocal apparatus between 6-8 years old children

Project-Based Learning at University: Teaching Experiences of Lecturers

AbstractOne of the methods, which directs pedagogical technologies towards interactive learning, embraces preparation and presentation of projects. The contribution of project-based learning to (self-)development of learners’ general and subject competencies has been widely acknowledged. However, seeking to develop student's (as future teacher's of music) competency of project activities, it is necessary to apply strategies and methods of project-based learning as one of the most essential means of (self-)education in higher education institutions. The article presents the attitude of lecturers from Lithuanian University of Educational Sciences towards problems and possibilities of application of paradigm of project-based learning in the process of music education studies