EASTER IN ELECTRONIC TEXTBOOKS ON MUSIC FOR THE BULGARIAN GENERAL EDUCATION SCHOOL
EASTER IN ELECTRONIC TEXTBOOKS ON MUSIC FOR THE BULGARIAN GENERAL EDUCATION SCHOOL

Summary/Abstract: Easter one of the two holiest Christian holidays, is revered as a major in Eastern Orthodox Christianity (this is one of the main differences with Catholicism, in which Christmas is celebrated in the first place). However, the bright spiritual essence of the holiday is somewhat displaced by the ostentatious celebration, by the formal attendance at church to be noticed there, by the perception of Lent as a diet for weight loss and purification of the body. This utilitarian consumer mentality lies not only in attitude towards Easter, it is much wider, but if you change the attitude towards a major religious holiday, it is a step towards a greater change. For such a change to take place, a change in young people's vision must be approached. One way to do this is to work purposefully at school, starting with the textbooks. The disciplines of the aesthetic cycle, one of which is the discipline Music, through its direct impact on the emotional world of adolescents, can be a valuable helper in this respect. On the other hand, with the rapid development of communications and the globalist way of thinking, the national specificity is somewhat lost, some traditions are diminished and ceased to be maintained, and the way we perceive and experience these traditions gradually changes. For the preservation of old national traditions, as well as for the education of respect and esteem for these traditions, a support can be sought in the possibilities of the textbooks, as well as for the modern aids developed for them. Naturally, pedagogical influence exerted in one of the used textbooks, in one of the studied disciplines and for one of topics provided to study is not enough to change public attitudes, but in the textbooks that I will examine in this article those of the author team led by Professor Penka Mincheva (Mincheva at al. 2016a, 2017b, 2018a, 2018b, 2019), publishing house "Prosveta" (3rd and 4th grade) and "Prosveta + ‖(5th 7th grade), this impact is detectable in each of the learning topics. For this reason, I analyze the tasks included in these educational kits. I focus specifically on electronic textbooks, because with the new conditions in the second half of the school year 2019-2020, classes were held online these tools have become highly relevant. The electronic music textbook is an electronic aid accessible by computer and telephone, combining the printed textbook, the sound files the music for perception and performance placed on the relevant pages, with additional tasks to each topic, helping to comprehend, memorize, apply the learned information. All this makes the electronic textbook very useful in modern forms of learning, online learning and self learning. Electronic resources are all tasks available in the electronic textbook, but not included in the printed version of the textbook, as well as recorded music. In the music educational course of this author's team the topic of Easter is present from the 2nd grade, and the additional tasks in the electronic textbooks appear from the 3rd grade. Among the tasks created for the topic of Easter are: for 3rd and 4th grade, when children have more intuitive and visual figurative thinking tasks for connecting the name of a holiday with a photo depicting something typical for it; for 4th grade also a light crossword puzzle of holidays and customs; for 5th grade linking the name of a holiday with a ritual action explained in words, inherent in the holiday (some of these actions are fulfilled only in Bulgaria); as well as with a Bulgarian custom accompanying this holiday; tasks questions, raising the topic of the Bulgarian experience of the Easter holiday; for 7th grade photo gallery "Passion Week: in the footsteps of Christ", in which photographs of selected significant places related to the sufferings of Christ are arranged chronologically.

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