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Intuicijos reikšmingumas muzikiniame ugdyme
Importance of Intuition in Music Education

Author(s): Rasa Kirliauskienė
Subject(s): Social Sciences
Published by: Vytauto Didžiojo Universitetas
Keywords: music education; the role of a contemporary music teacher; intuition

Summary/Abstract: Communication of music is firstly based on intuitive intonational thinking. Thus, according to Z. Rinkevičius (2009), it is quite natural that appropriate use of music may efficiently stimulate intuitive thinking, reserves of unknown to us subconsciousness, and through them, those of consciousness. Therefore, music facilitates improvement of spiritual powers and intellect more than any other kinds of art. Research object: importance of intuition in music education. Research aim: to reveal importance of intuition in music education. Methods of research and sample: analysis of scientific literature sources, interview. Qualitative research data are described applying content analysis. The scheme of categorisation was not planned in advance and it was devised on the basis of the received data. The research was carried out in October 2013 and January 2014. The people related to the analysed problem (key informants) were chosen in the first stage of the research: 3 teachers with sufficient pedagogical experience working at school. The semi-structured (oral) interview was employed. The focus of this stage of research was on subjective opinion of the informants about importance of intuition in music education. They also were asked in what way, according to the informants, intuition is manifested in their work as a phenomenon.

  • Issue Year: 2014
  • Issue No: 115
  • Page Range: 208-220
  • Page Count: 13