On the need for methodocentrism in music teachers training system

• Authors: Wojciech Benedykt Jankowski
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

PL

The main idea of this paper, dedicated to Professor Andrzej Rakowski, is to emphasize that the pedagogy concentrated around the school curriculum and school subjects (eg. Music) has become more and more outdated. More useful seems to be a pedagogy oriented towards the so-called Great Author Concepts (Methods) of Music Education, eg. Dalcroze, Orff, Kodaly, Gordon and others. The author of the report provides a justification for his opinion, as well as specifying its purpose and the conditions under which it was formed. Primarily, the proposed approach involves combining the universality of the Methods with the individual preferences of both the teachers (representing the Method) and the students, providing the possibility of choice. The author sees the special value of that point of view in the integrative character of these Methods - combining an active and creative approach to music with the students’ perceptual and intellectual development. The report also highlights the requirement for a high level of teacher competence in the use of all the methods. Taking into the consideration all of the above (discussed in more detail in this report), the author puts forward a proposal for the reform of the system of training music teachers. According to the author, the system ought to be founded on the Methods (e.g. on one of them, particularly where the Concept/Method is already well developed).

Keywords

PL

methodocentrism; curriculum; concept; training; pedagogy; Dalcroze; Orff; Kodaly; Gordon; universality; integration; competences; qualifications; system

• Publisher: Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu
• Journal: Interdisciplinary Studies in Musicology
• Year: 2011
• Issue: 10
• Pages: 131-140

Dates

published

2018-10-17

Contributors

author

Wojciech Benedykt Jankowski

• associate professor emeritus at the Eisner School of Music, Warsaw. He completed his Master’s degree at the University of Warsaw, Dept, of Psychology and Education, and Ph.D. at the University of Gdańsk, Dept, of Education. Since 1964 he was a lecturer at the Fryderyk Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw (1974-1922 - a director of the Department of Music Pedagogy). He is a pedagogical employee at COPSA - the Pedagogical Center for Music & Artistic Schools, Warsaw. He has also been a member of IKS - International Kodaly Society since 1975 (honorary member of IKS since 2005); president of the Kodaly Division of Polish ISME 1982-2005), Honorary Member of the Board of GIML - the Gordon Institute for Music Learning since 1995. His interests include: Music Education; the Music School System in Poland in the international perspective; Z. Kodaly and E.E. Gordon concepts of music education. He is the author of many books, among them Wychowanie muzyczne w szkole ogólnokształcącej [Music Education in the General School System] Warsaw 1970; Pierwsze w Polsce klasy śpiewające [The First Kodaly Singing Classes in Poland], Warsaw 1991; Polskie szkolnictwo muzyczne. Geneza i ewolucja systemu [The Polish Music School System; its origin and evolution], Warsaw 2000; Dlaczego z muzyką w szkole są kłopoty? [Why Music at General School level always runs into trouble?], Warsaw 2006; Kształcenie wokalisty. Wybrane problemy [The Training of Vocalists. Selected Aspects] Wroclaw 2010, as well as more than 200 articles, essays etc.. He was awarded numerous Polish medals (including the Medal of the National Educational Committee), as well as Hungarian medals: by the Ministry for Culture, by the Z. Kodaly Institute for Music, Kecskemet, and by the Hungarian Government (Pro Cultura Hungarica).