| Abstract [eng] |
Democratization and humanizations objectives at school and society encourage turning back to personality, formation and meeting a student’s interests and needs. Factors stimulating and limiting the need for musical expression among students are discussed in the thesis. The following arguments define the work novelty and theoretic significance: • General musical activity in a class is targeted to every student’s musical expression. For this purpose, the model (construct) of a cooperating class is accentuated, namely the participation of all students in the general musical activity of the class. • In order to understand and reveal singularities, meanings, motives and emotions with regard to musical expression among students in the general musical activity of the class, an educational experiment was conducted (activity research). • Activity research was organised as a cyclic process which comprises planning, activity, observation, reflection, when changes are influenced with the help of feedback information. The thesis provides the data of qualitative analysis with regard to students’ reflections (diaries, essays) that might be significant to music teacher practitioners – researchers, and school communities. The activity research model may reveal the significance of musical education to every student in the class. Object of the research is the formation of the need for musical expression among students. Objective of the research is to reveal the possibilities of formation of the need for musical expression among students during general musical activities in the class. The research revealed that activity organisation in the class, possibility to communicate and experience gained in musical activities in the class and school cultural life are the factors that encourage the formation of the need for musical expression. The educational experiment (activity research) helped to identify singularities of musical education in the class as well as to influence relevant changes. The research revealed that the students’ participation in general musical activities in the class is very important with regard to students’ personal experience. Activity reflections among students helped to organise and to target musical activity of the class towards the aspect of meaningful experience, efficient teaching and studying. As general musical activities were carried out and afterwards reflected, every student evaluated his own abilities, revealed his individuality, learnt to perform some specific roles and adjust them to others. Diary-writing helped students to learn to reflect, to evaluate his own and class activities, to gather children for the common goal, to organise musical activity based on the communal relationship of the class, and to observe the dynamics of formation of the need for musical expression among students. |
